Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is an extremely popular web design and inspiration blog. They have a nice selection of categories, and their posts are very in depth, and provide web designers with knowledge and much inspiration.

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Fuel Your Creativity

Although Fuel Your Creativity don’t update their blog on a daily basis, they have an awesome array of posts that are very inspirational to web designers.

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Garcya Web Design Blog

Garcya is full the the brim of icon packs and goodies for web designers. They update their blog more than frequently and have masses of free downloads. Its like a huge web design goody bag.

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Just Creative Design

This is the online presence of Jacob Cass. Its a portfolio and also a design blog. On the blog there is many useful articles they web designers could benefit from.

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Noupe

It has an odd name, but is a brilliant blog for designers. You could spend hours on this site! They have a nice design and the colour work very well with each other, oh and their posts are incredible.

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We Function

Function is not just a design blog, its a portfolio of the freelance design firm called Function. They just publish a very popular web design blog. Their posts are very nice to read, and they feature alot of design reviews.

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Six Revisions

This web design and development journal is sweet. They use a nice simple design, and feature some hot posts. The images they use in their posts aswell are beautiful. This blog is worth checking out!

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456 Berea Street

A nice blog that has strong content and a simple design. They have lots of useful tips and tricks for web design and developers.

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Outlaw Design Blog

Outlaw has recently had a design overhaul, so the site has a brand spanking new design. Their blog posts are divided up into nice understandable categories, and the website overall has some brilliant content.

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Snook

Snook post about tips, tricks and bookmarks on web development. They have some useful posts on their site, and also post about useful information in the web development community.

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BittBox

I absolutely love this site. They have a brilliant selection of content. This includes freebies, industry news, themes and brilliant web finds.

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UX Booth

The UX Booth is a nicely designed blog that writes about user experience. People can submit their site to be reviewed on a quarterly basis. They provide some neat posts that are not only inspirational to web designers, but extremely interesting to read.

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David Airey

David Airey is a freelance web designer who lives in Northern Ireland. David has a really swish looking blog, and provides content on a personal level, meaning freelancers who are reading his blog know that the content is written by him (another freelance designer), so this makes it original.

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Colour Lovers

This is always a great site to go to if you are stuck with what colours match well together, but believe it or not, colour lovers also have a design blog, in which they blog about news, trends and interviews.

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Dev Lounge

Dev Lounge has a very simple yet safisticated design. They post new content on a regular basis, and its very original.

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SimpleBits

Aswell as being a small web design firm, simplebits had a notebook / blog which is their personal web design journal.

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TutorialBlog

This awesome blog helps web designers and developers learn. On their blog they post tutorials / tips and tricks to do with business, design, development, social media, and many other areas.

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CSS Beauty

Although this is more of a web design gallery, they still provide much inspiration for web designers. They have built up a nice collection of beautiful websites from round the internet.

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Web Designer Wall

This website owned by Nick La is beauty within itself. All of nick la’s websites are inspirational, and web designer wall is no different. It features design trends, ideas and tutorials.

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Think Vitamin

This is a blog from the Carsonified Group. It has a nice rich design, and blogs about everything web design / development. Its a must see!

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Sitepoint Design Blog

The sitepoint design blog features many inspirational posts, despite its plain user interface. It is written by many contributors, so have a cheeky look.

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Design Meltdown

Design Meltdown is a web design journal that blogs about design elements, trends and problems within web design.

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Smileycat

Smileycat is a web design blog that has rich content, and is updated frequently. It features a simple design, but has some very powerful content.

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Bartel Me Design

Bartel Me Design is a small design agency based in Graz, Austria. The blog has a very clean and sleek design to it and some intresting content.

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Wakeup Later

This is a nicly designed web design blog that features most of its posts around website building, freelancing and online income.

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StyleGrind

This very popular blog has an awesome design. StyleGrind blog about web tachnology and design news.

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WebMonkey

WebMonkey is part of the wired network of sites. It is an online resource for web developers. Their daily blog provides news for web developers.

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Spoon Graphics

The Spoon Graphics blog provides tutorials, atricles / news and downloads for web designers and developers. It has a nice collection of resources.

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ShareBrain

ShareBrain is an online magazine for web designers knowledge, resources and inspiration. They have a quality each to use design.

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Adaptive Path

The Adaptive Path blog is a personal blog, written by the Adaptive Path Team. They blog about design and development.