Web Design in 2009

The advent of design and especially web design – related blogs, sure didn’t start this year but it was a good one in terms of new references and quality. The amount of people willing to share is amazing and the community is a really vibrant one, making it awesome to be part of it.

Hope you guys enjoy my list of the top web design blogs this year, don’t forget to follow our main twitter page and community news and cya next year!

Our Selection of The Best

Smashing Magazine

Probably known as the Big Boss of web design blogs has always great content and recently launched the Smashing Book.

Abduzeedo

The brilliant project of Fabio Sasso, daily updated with great series!

WebDesignLedger

Lots of content and great quality, all about web design for the community!

Tutorial9

Awesome Tutorials and Freebies are guaranteed!

Speckyboy

Gathers a lot of weekly information on webdesign, a great center point!

Six Revisions

With Jacob Gube as the main guy, it gathers posts from a lot of contributors and delivers updated and in depth tutorials and articles, recommended!

Noupe

Recently acquired by no other than Smashing Magazine…Noupe is a unique style blog with exclusive content!

Inspired Magazine

Inspired Mag really delivers inspiration through daily updates and great articles, good community surrounding it too.

CSS Globe

Run by Alen Grakalic, CSS Globe provides awesome information on web development and design aswell posting great articles and gathering the best ones around.

My Ink Blog

Created by Andrew Houle, this is a great blog with great articles, tuts, interviews and giveaways!

OneXtraPixel

Very visual blog with amazing round ups and inspiration articles, recommended!

Spyre Studios

Jon leads this blog posting regular round ups and awesome articles with pretty fresh and detailed material!

Spoon Graphics

By Chris Spooner, you will find pretty practical advice and resources!

Design Informer

It is for me one of the big revelations at the end of the year, an amazingly well detailed blog with amazing interviews and articles, started by Jad Limcaco!

Naldz Graphics

Managed by Ronald Bien this is a very creative blog with good inspiration and resources!

Line25

Another blog by Chris Spooner providing great inspiration and resources to get you updated!

Woork Up

From Antonio Lupetti, Woork Up recently moved to wordpress with a new format and more contributors, great content!

Creative Nerds

Full of creative ideas, inspiration and updated resources, definetly worth a look!

Function

In Function’s blog, you will find some of the best freebies on the community and amazing articles and interviews!

Vandelay Design

Vandelay is full of great freebies and awesome inspiration articles.

Instant Shift

Awesome round-ups and freebies with some pretty interesting articles as well. Great presentation!

Web Designer Depot

A pretty complete blog full of everything, resources, tutorials, freebies, awesome articles and round-ups!

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