Non-Exhaustive list of Web Design Resources:Blogs, Gurus, Tweet-lists

Do you want to be up-to-date with all latest trends in Front-End Development, Web Design, HTML5, 3, or whatnot? Let me show you how:

Setup a netvibes account

I think good products stand the passage of time, and since Netvibes has managed to survive my bookmarks for a few years now, it must be good. RSS Feed aggregation, reader, name it as you want, it basically does one thing: It gathers all the things you like to read, in one place. Build your dashboard, and pay special attention to the settings on the top right corner: You can get rid of the Headline on top, the google search and generally you can pretty much change everything you want depending on your needs.

Hope you got twitter

Don’t be fooled that you can stay updated without following specific people that work in the Design industry. Setup your account, and as you will be following a great number of people, try to filter them by using Lists. Personally I just separate general from design-related, but you can go further into separating technologies like CSS, HTML, and so on.

Blogs

Here’s the blogs I follow in Netvibes:
Jeffrey Zeldman presents the Daily Report
HTML5 Doctor
A List Apart
Sam Ruby
Drupal.Org News
Bruce Lawson
Smashing Magazine
Six Revisions

Follow them!

And here you got the people I follow in twitter.

Job Description: Front-End Developer

When I first started building/designing websites back in 2006, I had the impression that the term “Web Designer” could cover everything from PHP to HTML to pure Design work (Fireworks, Illustrator, Photoshop).

Luckily, by following the right people, who with their articles and talks define the web of tomorrow, I got a solid understanding of who’s-doing-what in the industry. Today we’re going to focus on the infamous Front-End Developer.

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