Design Development Magazine

Since the very beginning of my career as a web designer & developer, every year has been an improvement for me. But also it has been a great improvement for the Internet. Web designers and developers from all over the world are doing the same, improving more and more each year, creating bigger a better websites.

Below I have listed a source of articles, tutorials and inspiration for you to dive in to, because this is where we are at for the last month of 2008. In December 2009, we shall see how much we’ve changed.

PSDTuts Web Design Week

• How to turn a texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background
• How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
• The 3 Components of Good Web Design
• 9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer
• 8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit
• 14 Quick and Slick Portfolio Templates (via ThemeForest)
• Cliff Notes on a Website Redesign - Tips and Thoughts from the Creattica Inspire Design
• 6 Interface Design Principles and Tips Every Web Designer Should Know
• Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles at Your Fingertips
• $25,000 Giveaway, Score ThemeForest Cash by Commenting

Interesting Articles

• Top 10 Web Dev Blunders of 2008
• 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress
• Online Advertising And Its Impact On Web Design
• What to do with free time
• 101 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads
• Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes?
• 10 Biggest Milestones in Web Development
• Introduction to Adobe Air

Interviews

• Interview with Designer Menachem Krinsky
• Interview With Envato CEO Collis Ta’eed
• Interview with Justin Maller
• Interview with Abstract Artist Rik Oostenbroek
• Interview with Talented Digital Painter Marek Okon
• Interview with Kervin Brisseaux
• Interview with Jonathan Snook

Tutorials

• How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
• How to Convert a PSD to XHTML
• How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character
• 30 Ultra High-end Photoshop Tutorials
• How to Illustrate a Wooden Frame on a Wall Scene
• Building the Back-End of a Photo Site
• 10 Awesome Ruby on Rails Techniques to Get You Started
• 50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials

Inspiration

• The Right Type: 5 Inspiring Typographic Tales
• 50 Stunning Examples Of Reflective Photography
• Showcase Of Brilliant Comic Book Cover Art
• 50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs

These resources have been pulled from PSDTuts, NETTuts, Smashing Magazine, VectorTuts and FreelanceSwitch. Only the best most recent resources have been selected. In case there are any of you readers that have not heard of any of these websites shown above, that’s a great list to get you started. Also be sure to check out the rest of the articles, tutorials and more within those sites, as you will find a vast turn in your career.