The Best Resource For Web Design
I believe I have found the greatest resource for web design. Not for beginners, no. But for all the intermediate/advanced web designers, where do you go to get the latest-greatest info on web design? Tricks and techniques that are so subtle, there isn’t enough time to publish them in book form… We need a place that has everything we need, and can imagine, yet is so up-to-date that it can keep up with the ever-evolving changes of the world wide web.
Yes, the best place for web design is, indeed, Digg.com.
Why Digg is the best web design resource
Here’s my reasoning: currently, the most popular places to keep up on web design practices and the like are blogs. But if you’re like me, it’s tough to know who has the best blog out there and what techniques really are the most well-respected by professionals. (Recently, I revamped completely how I begin doing a layout in CSS thanks to some helpful hints from pro bloggers, for example.)
Digg has become, without a doubt, the best place for filtering through blog posts and getting the best. Also, there is enough of a strong, loyal following of web designers using Digg that you can, through simple democracy, get to the best and most respected articles in the industry, some that are just minutes old.
Steps to Maximizing Digg’s resources
Here’s a list of things that will make Digg a literal gold mine for web design resources.
Use Google + Digg. You can run a search in Google using “site:digg.com” and then the query of what you’re looking for to get some sweet results. For example, “site:digg.com web design” turned up articles on Panic’s Coda (a new design app for Mac), 30 killer resources every designer should see, web design workflow, 25 killer code snippets, 4 steps to effective web design pricing, the web’s best interface design, and more. Combining Google’s multi-billion-dollar-worth search algorithm with Digg is a sure bet.
Digg’s Design page. Go to www.digg.com/design for an active list of design articles and posts. You can even narrow your searches in Google by using site:digg.com/design [+ the query].
These are just a couple of ways that I get into Digg via Google to really hunt down good articles on web design.
Tim
Jul 27th, 2007, 1:30 pm
Great idea. Additionally, now I can delete a bunch of bookmarks that I couldn't search through anyway.