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For anyone in the web design and development industry, you should be checking most of these on a regular basis and you can’t go wrong subscribing to the RSS feeds of the following sites:

A is for A List Apart

A List Apart contains the best written advice and opinions of the top minds in the industry.

See also:

• Abduzeedo (design blog)
• Arbenting (design/development blog)
• Alltop (web design links)
• Affiliate Ranger (web design/development blog)

B is for Build Internet!

Build Internet! is a relatively new blog (although old compared to Inspect Element!) but has already established it’s place as one of the best blogs offering great development tutorials and more.

See also:

• Boagworld (web design podcast and blog)
• Best Web Gallery (CSS gallery)
• Bittbox (design blog)

C is for CSS-Tricks

The place to go if you need help with anything to do with CSS. Also plenty of tutorials teaching you things that you didn’t know was possible.

See also:

• CSS3 Info (CSS3 blog)
• Cats Who Code (web development blog)
• CSS Line (CSS gallery)
• Creattica Daily (Daily Design News Blog)
• CSS Globe (CSS News)

D is for Design Bump and Design Moo

Design Bump and Design Moo both combine the social voting aspect of Digg but focused purely on the web design and development.

See also:

• Design Float (similar to Design Bump and Design Moo)
• Design-Newz (web design and development news)
• DevSnippets (web development blog)
• Design Jojo (design news and blog post round-up)

E is for Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks’ recent redesign of his site shows what is possible in modern web design.

F is for From the Couch

Video podcast hosted by brothers Marc and David Perel in which they talk about anything to do with web design.

See also:

• Freelance Switch (freelance blog)
• Fuel Your Coding (web development blog)
• ffffffive (creative inspiration blog)
• For A Beautiful Web (web design and development)
• Fudge Graphics (design blog)

G is for GoMediaZine

Great resource for all things design related.

See also:

• Grace Smith (web design and development blog)

H is for HTML 5 Gallery

As you can probably guess from the title, HTML 5 Gallery is a gallery of sites using HTML 5 elements.

See also:

• HTML 5 Doctor (web development blog focused on HTML 5)
• Hongkiat (web design/development blog)
• Hot Scripts (web development resource)

I is for I Love Typography

With Typography playing a huge role in Web Design, I Love Typography is the best blog out there for all things typography related.

See also:

• I’m Just Creative (design blog)
• In the Woods (web development blog)
• Instant Shift (design blog)
• Icon Finder (icon search)

J is for Just Creative Design

See also:

• jQuery (javascript framework)

K is for Kuler

Excellent colour picker from Adobe and a great place to go for colour inspiration.

L is for Line25

Creative webdesign blog by Chris Spooner with a great looking design.

See also:

• Logo Design Love (logo design blog)
• Lee Munroe (web design blog)

M is for Minervity

N is for Noupe

Great all round web design/development blog.

See also:

• Naldz Graphics (design blog)
• Nettuts+ (web development tutorials)

O is for Only Creative

Only Creative picks out portfolios of the most creative designers out there.

See also:

• Outlaw Design Blog (clue is in the title!)

P is for Pattern Tap

See also:

• Pixel Perfect (Firefox plugin)

The ultimate collection of design elements from around the web.

Q is for Qapture

Collection on what’s hot from the world of Twitter.

See also:

• Qbrushes (free Photoshop brushes)
• QNT (digital art magazines and web design gallery)

R is for Retinart

See also:

• Reencoded (web design and development resources)

S is for Smashing Magazine

What would this list be without Smashing Magazine?! The best site for designers (and developers) on the web.

See also:

• Six Revisions (web design and development blog)
• Sitepoint (web development blog)
• Spyre Studios (web design blog)
• Spoon Graphics (design blog)
• Sam Brown (web design/development blog)
• SlickMap CSS (CSS resource)

T is for Tutorial Magazine

Tutorial Magazine does a great job of rounding up the best tutorials including in both web design and development. Great presentation and nice simple design.

See also:

• Tutorial9 (web design and development tutorials)
• Typesett Magazine (typography focused web design and development blog)
• The Design Cubicle (design blog)
• The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design (web design and development tips)
• Think Vitamin (web design and development blog)

U is for Usability Post

Superb look at usability around the web and beyond. Doesn’t post very often but each one is absolute top quality.

See also:

• UX Booth (web usability blog and reviews)

V is for Vandelay Design

Another great all round web design/development blog.

See also:

• Vectortuts (vector design tutorial)
• Veerle’s Blog (web design blog)

W is for Web Designer Depot

Very creative design and has built up a great following due to the quality content.

See also:

• What the Font (font finder)
• Web Design News (web design news blog)
• Web Design Ledger (web design blog)
• WebDesignDev (web design/development blog)

X is for Nothing?!

I couldn’t find any great that begin with X but if you do then let me know in the comments and I’ll add it in.

Y is for You The Designer

Another one found while researching this post but doesn’t look like it would be out of place on any designer’s RSS reader.

Z is for Zach Krasner Times

Yet another one found researching and not surprising the only Z I could find. Looks to be a round-up of posts from across the web with a nice layout.