best websites for beginning designers

[rhsunderground]

i am teaching a class on web design next year and i want to have a list of good sites my students can follow and learn from. so far i have w3, css zen garden, and slashdot.

what sites do you recommend?

[WebWarrior]

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/ - and just about every work created by this man.
http://leftjustified.net/
http://gr0w.com/
http://superfluousbanter.org/
http://subtraction.com/ - Great example of usage of achromatic color scheme.

[Jick]

http://css-tricks.com/
http://good-tutorials.com/

[JPnyc]

no list is complete without W3schools

[Charles]

I'm not all that impressed with W3Schools. I use them quite often as my fall back reference but they are full of holes and errors. And they have an unseemly ardor for XHTML.

For design I like http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ .

[ebar]

I'm not all that impressed with W3Schools. I use them quite often as my fall back reference but they are full of holes and errors. And they have an unseemly ardor for XHTML.

For design I like http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ .

Thanks for the laugh.... u don't know how happy i am that there is a site actually called this that monitors this... Thank you Thank you Thank you

[Inga.]

Thanks for the laugh.... u don't know how happy i am that there is a site actually called this that monitors this... Thank you Thank you Thank you

The irony is that their own site is in desperate need of a graphic designer's touch. They may code well, but they could win a mention in the Colour Blind and Can't Use Illustrator or Photoshop categories, I think. :P

I think this site looks really nice http://macrabbit.com/ They have a great logo and make nice use of colour and space, I think.

[Charles]

The irony is that their own site is in desperate need of a graphic designer's touch.The bad layout is intentionally bad.