This post is really for all the website designers that read this blog. I'm sure you've heard of at least 2 if not all of these sites. They're almost like a necessity to have bookmarked if you call yourself a web designer.

Check 'em out.

SmashingMagazine.com

http://smashingmagazine.com

SmashingMagazine.com is just freakin' amazing. The amount of content that they spew out almost daily is just amazing. Every week they give out a wordpress theme of the highest quality. Nevermind that, every day they provide designers with tips, tricks, recommendations, and more importantly, inspiration. The contests held here alone are enough to make you come back every day. Just the other week, they gave out a grand prize of a Macbook Air as well as a dozen other smaller things. If you are a web designer, this is the site for you. Can over 100,000 RSS subscribers be wrong?

DezinerFolio.com

http://dezinerfolio.com

If these lazy asses would get up and update their site more, DezinerFolio would be able to rival SmashingMagazine. They give out great freebies, like Smashing, that usually include a bunch of .psd files for free use. When they do update, which is like 3 or 4 times a month, it is usually with great content, such as a tutorial or great free downloads. This is another site worth having bookmarked.

HackWordpress.com

http://hackwordpress.com

Alright, even though this isn't directly related to design, it is in the ballpark. Some web designers work with wordpress, and what better way to make your designs pop then knowing how to mold the actual CMS you're building on? HackWordpress gives its users great tips and tricks on how to get Wordpress to do whatever you want. It is also a great source of Wordpress php code snippets, because face it, we all forget how to call a tag cloud and such, don't we?

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