The Top 15 Most Influential Web 2.0 Sites

Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and social indexes.

25 Refreshingly Blue Website Designs

If you have ever designed a website such as these blue website designs, than you probably have had to come up with a color scheme or were given a color scheme to work with. Choosing colors is often the first and one of the most important steps of any deign process. 

30 Creative Website Headers

One of the first things new visitors will notice upon arriving at your website is your header. Some sites are able to make an excellent first impression by featuring an artistic or creative header. This mini gallery post is a collection of some of the more inspiring headers out there.

8 Rules for Choosing Web Analytics Key Performance Indicators

My good friend, Avinash Kaushik, points out some examples for choosing good key performance indicators.

Good Websites...Bad Websites...How do you tell?

What determines whether a website is good or bad? Why do we leave a website that we found to be a bad experience? Here are some factors that help influence our decision.

Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications

Online forms can be challenging as even in their utility and necessity, we generally need to lure users to complete them. Afshan Kirmani takes the example of an online email application form and explains some fundamental principles that can help us design effective forms.

David Dairey featured in HOW magazine

www.davidairey.com has been featured in the October 2008 issue of HOW Magazine — the leading creativity, business and technology magazine for graphic designers.

SEO isn't just for web pages

Here are 11 tips for optimizing PDFs for search engines.

Web Site Navigation Design Showcase

Looking for ideas on design navigation for your web site. Review these 70+ examples for ideas.

9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client

The design phase of creating a website is fairly standard for most web designers however when it comes to presenting the mock up to a client before slicing / coding the design, some problems do arise.

10 hot web redesigns of 2008

Here are so early web redesigns that bear reviewing.

Yahoo coming up with new look and feel

Yahoo has begun offering some users a more personalized home page that the company hopes will increase the usage and utility of a Web site that's widely used but elderly in Internet years.

User Experinece Week

User Experience Week was held in San Francisco, CA from August 12 – 15. Boxes and Arrows, in co-operation with Adaptive Path, interviewed some of the great speakers for your design listening enjoyment.

How Chrome changed the web overnight

The Chrome browser is a big step forward for the web, and it arrived from Google to your Windows desktop virtually overnight. The open source browser comes in a streamlined package, but packs enough power to treat websites like applications. See which enhancements make the Chrome browser a shocking leap forward for web development.

Twitter and Google Analytics

Justin Cutroni shares his thoughts about discovering Twitters value via Google Analytics.

How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business

It’s crucial to have simple web designs to allow the user to quickly find the information they need, especially if you are selling a product. If the page is cluttered with useless text, widgets or unrelated products, the site becomes meaningless.

10 Tools for evaluating web design accessibility

Testing for web accessibility (how usable a website is by individuals with disabilities) is an often neglected part of web design and development.

Here are 10 free tools to help you evaluate and correct issues which decrease your website’s accessibility.

Interview with Jacob Gube of Six Revisions

Jacob Gube is the man behind Six Revisions, a popular web design and development blog. He is easily one of the most responsive and helpful bloggers that I’ve come across in the design blogging niche. Go to the interview here,and then go to Jacob's blog site.

Sitemasher

At Sitemasher, they believe that building and maintaining websites should be much easier than it has been to date. Their philosophy is to simplify and streamline the lifecycle of building, managing, and optimizing powerful, fully functional websites.

Looking for good design community news resources?

In the design blogging niche many sites are starting to post community news sections where readers can submit a link to one of their own posts or to someone else’s post that they appreciate. I found DesignM.ag to be a good source.

Here are a few more you may find of interest:

1. Vandelay Design

2. 11 websites to promote your design news

9 amazing websites

Here are 9 amazing sites based upon excellence in creativity and design, courtesy of positivespaceblog.com.