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What are the best websites to learn about web design?

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11 Options Considered	Price	Languages	Features
95 Smashing Magazine	-	–	–
72 A List Apart	-	–	–
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-- Speckyboy	-	–	–
-- freeCodeCamp	-	HTML, CSS, JavaScript	Projects, chat, exercises, written tutorials, video tutorials, progress saver

Smashing Magazine

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Well-rounded resource for designers

Smashing Magazine not only provides plenty of news on the latest UX and UI design trends, but also features a job board and active community. See More

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Busy website layout

The layout of the Smashing Magazine website is overly crowded, making it difficult to navigate and distracting to read blog posts on. See More

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Frequently updated, useful blog posts

In general, a new blog post is published every 1-3 days that's full of value for the reader. See More

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Current, broad, cutting-edge stuff

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A List Apart

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High quality writing

A List Apart has a difficult review process for their articles that insures well written, helpful articles from established industry professionals. See More

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Not as relevant anymore

In recent years, the site's content has shifted from talking about real-world examples, nuances and discussions about low-level ideas to generalizations and overall, commonly accepted theories about web design. See More

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Topics cover a wide range

A List Apart covers a range of topics beneficial to those learning web design, with some topics having 100's of posts that cover the category. Categories include Process, Content, Industry and more. See More

Awwwards

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Good for identifying web trends

Awwwards tends to keep up with the latest trends and give out awards based on trending ideas and concepts. See More

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Little difference between winning entries

Awwwards is very opinionated what constitutes a good design. So all sites that differ from the intended vision don't get highlighted. See More

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Expert judges and the evaluation process

The expert judges and the evaluation process makes Awwards a great place to go to find the very best in design. See More

Speckyboy

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Easy to explore specific topics

The Speckyboy website provides 10 different categories to make finding posts related to a specific topic extremely easy. Speckyboy also provides a search feature. See More

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Updated frequently

Speckyboy is updated on a regular basis, often daily, with new tips and resources (such as templates, fonts and books) for designers. See More

freeCodeCamp

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Actively developed

They are frequently updating courses and adding new material. See More

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Welcoming, active community

freeCodeCamp strongly encourages interacting with other learners and experienced programmers. They provide chatrooms which are always active and full of members happy to answer any questions you may have. Pair programming (programming with another user) is encouraged as a great way to work through some of their coding challenges. There are also meetup groups where you can code in person with other freeCodeCamp students. See More

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Browser-based

All courses used by freeCodeCamp are done in the browser, rather than students having to set up their own environment. This makes it much easier for beginners to get started. See More

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Gain real world experience while helping nonprofits

Once you've completed all the courses and practice levels on freeCodeCamp, you are able to participate with other learners on developing software for non-profits. It's an amazing way to gain experience and build your portfolio as a developer, while helping out a non-profit organization. See More

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Self-paced

There is no set schedule with freeCodeCamp. You can work through the program as fast or as slow as you want. See More

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Open source

Due to freeCodeCamp being open source, you are able to contribute to the program that helped teach you how to code in the first place. It's a great way to give back and gain experience. See More

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Completely free

Free for anyone who wants to take the camp. See More

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Languages:HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Features:Projects, chat, exercises, written tutorials, video tutorials, progress saver

Little Big Details

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Anyone can submit details

All readers of the site are encouraged to submit fitting design examples if they find them. See More

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Can go weeks without content

There are times when no content is submitted to the site for weeks. See More

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Points out interesting nuances of UI design

Little Big Details as the name implies is about the little things that often make a huge impact or just make the experience of using a site more pleasant. The site highlights ideas that can be easily missed and takes a moment to appreciate them. See More

Hackdesign

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Weekly lessons on variety of design-related topics

New lessons are released on a weekly basis. They include anything from tutorials, tips, to articles. See More

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Established, well-known teachers

The teachers at Hackdesign have worked on projects such as Fitbit, Pinterest and Zendesk. See More

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Targeted towards developers

Developers are not known for their fantastic design abilities. Hackdesign is aimed at developers who are curious about the design aspect of the field. See More

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Hands on from the start

Hackdesign courses have the user working on projects right from the beginning, keeping the lessons fun and interactive. See More

WebDesign Tuts+

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Covers a variety of topics

WebDesign Tut+ courses cover everything from the command line to talking with freelance clients and and usability design. See More

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Affordable monthly subscription

Compared to other similar sites (generally $25+/month), Tut+ is $15/month and offers plenty of free material. See More

Webdesigner Depot

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Comprehensive resource for everything related to web design

Webdesigner Depot covers topics from HTML to typography and comics. They have a list of deals for things such as courses, templates and fonts. See More

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List of freebies for subscribers

Webdesigner Depot provides a long list of freebies to their readers. Everything from icon sets to vector graphics and plenty more. See More

GBKSOFT Blog

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Useful

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Coorsy

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Has a wide range of topics

From learning about fundamentals to advanced styling, Coorsy covers a range of topics beneficial to those learning web design. See More

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