Extremely active and diverse forum covering web design & development, graphics, photography and 3D.
With over 100,000 posts and hundreds of users it is regularly updated and full of friendly, helpful people.
Portfolio and blog site of Joe Whitley — a freelance journalist & copywriter from West Yorkshire.
From his blog, Joe offers free copywriting tips to other writers and professionals, as well as running competitions in order for users to win free copywriting for themselves.
Typogridphy is a CSS framework constructed to allow web designers and front-end developers to quickly code typographically pleasing grid layouts.
I developed Typogridphy myself and it has so far proved extremely successful.
One of the better CSS galleries about — and probably the most updated. I have had a fair few of my own sites featured on here.
It contains the best of the web’s best designed and coded websites of all sizes and purposes.
One of the UKs longest established agencies. With an impressive portfolio and a team of highly skilled developers, they are also my employer — I started working there on July 14, 2008 — it’s great :¬)
The basis for my popular Typogridphy framework, 960 Grid system is a brilliant tool for web designers and developers to use to craft grid layouts quickly and accurately.
Probably the highest quality gallery site out there. This is one of the only sites I haven’t managed to get on yet!
Covering CSS and Flash, Best Web Gallery offers a diverse range of hand-picked sites from across the globe.
Premium open-source blogging/CMS platform. Completely free and incredibly powerful, it is usually first choice for designers and developers the world over.
With a wealth of plugins and themes, WordPress is almost infinitely expandable and relatively easy to customise.
Validation is an important part of the web development process. Use this free online tool to validate a page’s markup.
I have recently become enthralled by grid based web design (can you tell?).
This is a great and often overlooked site showcasing sites built with grids (Typogridphy is on there somewhere).
A free, flat-file French blogging platform. This is the engine that currently powers CSS Wizardry.
Ideal for small sites with a quick turnaround, this solutions offers a blogging tool which doesn’t require SQL.
My previous employer (up until July 3, 2008), where I worked as a web developer. They offer complete solutions for web, print and brand.
Regarded as a digital marketing agency as opposed to solely a web design firm, Keyclicks offer full PR, marketing and design solutions for small to medium enterprises.
My favourite thing about this site is the fact that the author offers his brief opinion/critique on the design, and justifies the site’s appearance in the showcase.
It’s little things like that that make of break a website — here it made it.
Coined as “Digg for Designers”, this site allows users to submit, share and then vote different links related to web design, graphics, typography and more.
Both a friend and talented web developer, TommyLogic offer complete web solutions as well as some useful tips/tutorials on his blog.
An invite only forum for the elite of the design world, Mint Pages has the most talented users of all forums about.
Frequented by the likes of Jonathan Snook (and me), Mint Pages has members qualified to offer advice on almost all subjects of design and development.
A community run CSS information silo, with links to tutorials, inspiration and much more.
Users can sign up and contribute completely free of charge, ideal for CSS developers of all skills.
Sam Brown is an extremely talented web developer living in Scotland. He “builds user-contributed platforms, designs social life-hacks, integrates authentic tag clouds with rich-client ad delivery on semantic, standards compliant wikis and sites, for viral delivery on social communities, blogs, rss feeds, mashups & services.”
The forum which accompanies the monthly Web Designer Magazine publication.
Not as active as it perhaps could be, but it still has a fair bit to offer.
CSS Remix showcases sites of a similar style and quality to Best Web Gallery.
It isn’t updated that often, but has some great entries.
AVV Studios is the portfolio and online home of David Weatherby, web guru, graphics guy and Second Life extraordinaire.
Another multi-disciplinary forum covering a multitude of topics.
I have never actually used this forum, I think three is enough, but I believe it is fairly well renowned.
As the name suggests, this site showcases sites which pay particular attention to web standards. The aforementioned Whitley Journalism made Editor’s Pick on there once — and I developed it!
A site which really delves into the origins and history of type.
Brilliantly written, top content and a knowledgeable author make it a great read.
Network come forum, this is a spin off from Estetica.
This is a design showcase with a twist. Showcasing logos, CSS sites, business cards and Flash sites, Faveup is a great place to look for excellent design across many fields.
David Airey’s blog dedicated the art and science of quality logo design.
A great read for those seeking inspiration, the seasoned identity designer, and everyone in between.
Portfolio of UK based designer Richard Gray.
Keep an eye out for the “Snug” print work, and the folded typography, clever stuff.
Showcasing, as you may have guessed, some of the web’s most elite CSS developed websites.
Sister blog site to Estetica Design Forum. Covering topics from industry events to typography, illustration to identity, Graphic Design Blog is a great read.
A joint portfolio between myself and a friend. We offer solutions for both web, print and identity.
A largely experimental project, not as much time as desired could be offered to the venture.
A site with a similar purpose to Design Float, but this time geared more toward the graphics side of design as opposed to web/screen.
Kuler is a handy little site full of user created colour schemes.
Ideal for inspiring that next project when you’re running dry, Kuler has thousands of colour palettes available for download.
Owner of possibly the coolest name and site ever, Pasquale D’Silva works and studies in Queensland, Australia.
Incredibly talented, his illustration work has been carried flawlessly onto the web via his amazing site.
A relatively new web development resource showcasing tutorials, resources, inspirations and wrte ups.
Although in its early stages I have a feeling WebDevLounge will be growing quickly.
CSS Vault is another of the top flight CSS galleries and resources. Containing links to well designed sites as well as industry tools and news it is well stocked...
...or was. It doesn’t seem to have been updated much in a long while.