Web Design Sites?

[LeeU]

I'm just a bit curious. We have some excellent designers/developers that are members of these forums, as well as many that are learning, and I was wondering what Web sites (developer and/or design) do you visit the most for ideas and training? And, if possible, why are they a favorite of yours?

[codebudo]

http://csszengarden.com/ is a must for any web designer.
http://www.w3schools.com/ makes for an easy reference.
http://joelonsoftware.com/ tries to get 'programmers' to meet the minimum bar to be called 'engineers'.

If you're willing to look at my shameless plug, the goal of my blog is to help 'engineers' apply more advanced concepts (http://www.codebudo.com/) from mathematics and computer science.


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[WebJoel]

http://www.cssplay.co.uk (http://www.cssplay.co.uk/) Great stuff, -most examples not well documented though. Meant for people whom 'almost get it' and can read the source code and adapt. I like that. -It helps to keep kiddie me-too-ers from flooding the web with stuff beyond their native ability.

http://bonrouge.com/ Repository of just about everything one would ever require. A true web-master and in the spirit of 'open source', the advice is freely given. Well documented, easy-to-follow instructions to set-up your own.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ Excellent and well-documented, with numerous examples and variations.

And about 50 more sites and resources. Notable sites such as above, have several dozen 'examples' and thus, I list here. Other bookmarks might deal with just one or two examples and that is the whole site. My "bookmarks" has several hundred URLs and over two dozen folders where I tried to 'group by type' with small success...

[NogDog]

www.php.net - What can I say, it's the PHP reference.
www.mysql.com - Ditto, except for MySQL
www.phpbuilder.com - PHP forum (and another JupiterMedia forum :) )
www.alistapart.com - many, many good articles on various aspects of web development
www.visibone.com/colorlab/big.html - Useful web color palette tool

[Kor]

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ - The author has a good sense of humor.
http://www.quirksmode.org/resources.html - Javascript, CSS
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ - HTML, Javascript, CSS, web design

[Stephen Philbin]

I guess mine are pretty boring and unsurprising, but I think they're ideal.

http://www.w3.org/ for HTML, CSS and anything else I'm learning about that originated from the minds of the W3C. I mostly visit there for XML-related information.

For PHP, I seem to be a bit of a black sheep for my choice in http://www.zend.com/ and http://devzone.zend.com/manual/

My choice for MySQL is much the same as Charles': http://www.mysql.com/ however for manual information, I prefer to download the manual in HTML format and put it on my own host and read it from there.

For Javascript, I don't actually use a site at all. I use O'reilly's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide" (mine is the fourth edition).

I use these rather ordinary sources because I consider them to be the best. They tend to be the most complete and accurate sources available and tend to have the least inaccuracy and misinformation (especially in the case of HTML, XHTML, CSS and XML).

I get my ideas from the same places because after reading the proper documentation you get a better and more complete understanding. Learning about the details tends to give me more ideas about how to put them together (like using XSLT to create an RSS feed (and other things) rather than PHP doing it directly).

[JPnyc]

For colors, I like this (http://milov.nl/iambald/24.html)one

[The Old Sarge]

Thanks, JP. That gives a much better idea of a color than a tiny little "chip."

[JPnyc]

Yeah, I like it. Really helps select body bg colors.

[TJ111]

http://www.somacon.com/p142.php - Huge spectrum of colors and their CSS counterparts. Not as good as some sites that generate it based on "harmony". I use colorcache for that.
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp - Just for a quick reference guide if I'm screwing up the syntax of something.
Other than here that's pretty much it, other than the random article or two I read through from time to time. I guess I can count the scripts, but their forums aren't as user-friendly as these, so I don't go their nearly as often.

[ray326]

Design (section of my "web stuff" bookmarks)

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report (http://zeldman.com)
A List Apart (http://alistapart.com)
The Web Standards Project: Fighting for Standards in our Browsers (http://www.webstandards.org/)
SimpleBits (http://www.simplebits.com/)
Juicy Studio; keeping developers informed (http://www.juicystudio.com/)
Stylegala ★ design | css | standards (http://www.stylegala.com/)
Thinking With Type (http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/)
Dieter Steffmann @ typOasis (http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm)
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
(http://www.csszengarden.com/)

[Ultimater]

php.net --PHP
search.cpan.org --Perl
24ways.org --website tips in general
webdeveloper.com -- If I was posting elsewhere I'd still recommend these kick arse forums, they're legendary.
Other than that, I google mostly everything else.

If you want to complete tasks, avoid youtube and myspace. In some cases I need to avoid forums including these to get work done. Although usually by answering coding questions on here it gets me into a programming mood.

[KDLA]

It's not a website, but more of a service: I use Google's "Stumble Upon," with graphic design, art, and web design selected.

As to standard reference, ALA, CSS Zen Garden (although I think it's lost a lot of its initial charm), 456 Berea Street, SimpleBits and MeyerWeb.

KDLA

[LeeU]

Thanks to everyone for your input. I appreciate it. It helped out a lot.