A Reading List for Web Designers

Update: Thanks to Mithrill, you can now down­load this entire list, in OPML for­mat. Many feed read­ers will then allow you to import the whole list in one step. Down­load: God­bit read­ing list (OPML, 28kb)

“Have some RSS; it’s good for you.”

“What’s RSS?”

These are times that demand we learn and grow, just to keep up. So many excit­ing things are hap­pen­ing in the web design com­mu­nity, that it’s hard to know where to start.

As the amount of inter­est­ing con­tent on the web increases, a bunch of peo­ple ask the same question:

Ques­tion: “How can I access, read and man­age all the con­tent I want, from all these web­sites, in one orga­nized place?”

Answer: All that con­tent pump­ing out of each site can be pack­aged in a “feed.” The feeds from all the sites you’re inter­ested in can be man­aged, orga­nized and read with a “feed reader.”

In other words, using a feed reader is like hav­ing your own cus­tomized, auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ated news channel.

RSS Readers

There are lots of dif­fer­ent feed readers. Some feed read­ers may be inte­grated in desk­top soft­ware, such as your browser or your office pro­duc­tiv­ity suite. Other feed read­ers are freely avail­able online:

In any event, the one I use and rec­om­mend is Newshutch:

What to read?

This is a list of RSS feeds, which is based on the feeds that I read, on top­ics includ­ing the church online, pho­to­shop, web design, etc.

By the way, under­stand that the term “RSS” in itself is a lit­tle ambigu­ous, since a feed can con­form to any one of sev­eral dif­fer­ent stan­dards, some of which have dif­fer­ent names. For sim­plic­ity, the term “RSS” in this arti­cle will refer to all types of feeds generally.

Add to the list

This arti­cle is an exper­i­ment here at God­bit, in that arti­cles are usu­ally writ­ten once, with a lim­ited time period for comments.

Instead, dur­ing the com­ment­ing period, I will update this list based on your input, so that the RSS Read­ing List can be a resource for all.

So, if you have an RSS feed of your own, or one that you read and rec­om­mend, let us know in the comments.

Resource: RSS Read­ing List

Church

Comics

CSS Showcase

Get­ting Things Done

God­bit

Mag­a­zines

  • Note:

My Host

Pho­to­shop

Pop­u­lar Blogs

Web Design

Web Design: Accessibility

Web Design: CSS

Web Design: DOM Scripting

Web Design: Events

Web Design: Infor­ma­tion Architecture

Web Design: Jobs

Web Design: Podcasts

Web Design: Textpattern

Web Apps

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