Top Web Design Blogs

The Top 25 List of Blogs is becoming a trademark around here. We have already created the Top 25 Blogs About Blogging and the Top 25 SEO Blogs. Now it is time to cover the web design niche.

The Original 25

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1 A List Apart 8 10 10 10 38
2 Smashing Magazine 6 10 10 10 36
3 456 Berea Street 7 8 10 8 33
4 Meyer Web 8 7 9 7 31
5 Simple Bits 7 7 10 6 30
6 Pearsonified 7 6 7 10 30
7 Tutorial Blog 5 8 7 8 28
8 CSS Beauty 7 8 7 5 27
9 Snook.ca 7 7 7 6 27
10 Bartelme Design 7 6 9 4 26
11 The Man in Blue 7 5 10 3 25
12 Andy Budd 8 3 10 4 25
13 Particle Tree 6 6 8 5 25
14 Warpspire 7 4 3 10 24
15 Brian Gardner 6 7 1 10 24
16 Sitepoint Design Blog 6 10 4 4 24
17 The Undersigned 7 3 3 10 23
18 Bitt Box 5 7 5 6 23
19 Fadtastic 5 3 5 10 23
20 Colour Lovers 0 9 5 8 14
21 David Airey 4 7 3 8 22
22 Design Meltdown 5 6 7 4 22
23 Clagnut 7 3 8 3 21
24 Dev Lounge 6 6 4 5 21
25 Smiley Cat 6 4 7 3 20

Other Notable Sites / Blogs

1
10bestdesign.com/blog
San Francisco California, US
2
1stwebdesigner.com UK
3
5280designco.com
Denver Colorado, US
4
85ideas.com USA
5
99designs.com/blog
Oakland California, US
6
abduzeedo.com
Oakland California, US
7
acawebconsulting.com/pages/web-design-blog
Carlsbad California, USA
8
alistapart.com/articles USA
9
ardentcreative.com/blog
Fort Worth Texas, US
10
artattackk.com/blog
New Delhi Delhi, India
11
atlanticbt.com
Raleigh North Carolina, US
12
banah.co/category/web-design Singapore
13
blazedream.com/blog
Chennai Tamil Nadu, India
14
blog.fluidui.com Dublin Ireland
15
blog.shillingtoneducation.com
16
blog.simplesite.com
Copenhagen Hovedstaden, Denmark
17
c7creative.com/blog
Jacksonville Florida, US
18
collectiveray.com
Santa Lucija Saint Lucia’s, Malta
19
creativebloq.com
20
creativemarket.com/blog
21
creativenerds.co.uk
San Francisco California, US
22
creativereview.co.uk UK
23
css-tricks.com
London England, UK
24
cssauthor.com
25
designbeep.com/category/articles USA
26
designbombs.com India
27
designer-daily.com USA
28
designerblogs.com/the-blog
Miami Florida, US
29
designforawebsite.com
Fribourg Switzerland
30
designmodo.com/articles
31
designrfix.com
32
designshack.net USA
33
designtaxi.com
Lancaster Pennsylvania, US
34
designyourway.net/blog USA
35
designyoutrust.com USA
36
dharmishi.com/blog Singapore
37
digitalagencynetwork.com/blog/web-design
Bucharest Bucuresti, Romania
38
digitalevolutions.ae/blog USA
39
digitalgravity.ae/blog
Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, India
40
directlinedev.com/blog
London England, UK
41
dreamsoftinfotech.com/blog
42
element8.ae/dubai
Dubai Dubayy, United Arab Emirates
43
elumin.co.uk/graphic-website-design
Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA
44
endertech.com/blog
Noida Uttar Pradesh, India
45
eyeondesign.aiga.org
Dubai Dubayy, United Arab Emirates
46
freshdesignweb.com
Altrincham England, UK
47
fullstop360.com/blog
Torrance California, US
48
getflywheel.com/layout
49
hackingui.com/articles
50
helloweb.co.nz/blogs
51
hongkiat.com/blog
Omaha Nebraska, US
52
hongkiat.com/blog/category/design
53
inkbotdesign.com/blog
Auckland New Zealand
54
instantshift.com/category/web-design Malaysia
55
invisionapp.com/inside-design Malaysia
56
jbwebdesign.com.au/blog
Belfast Northern Ireland, UK
57
lightraysolutions.com/best-way-to-market-your-business-blog USA
58
line25.com
New York City New York, US
59
maniwebify.com/articles
Capalaba Queensland, Australia
60
material.io/blog
Fullerton California, US
61
mockplus.com/blog USA
62
noupe.com Punjab India
63
onextrapixel.com
Mountain View California, US
64
open.spotify.com/show/2jZTurffCyIe4F71EAcUQG
Sydney New South Wales, Australia
65
payperclicked.co.uk
San Francisco California, US
66
pixlogix.com/blog Singapore
67
popwebdesign.net/popart_blog/en
Blandford Forum England, UK
68
saintcode.com
London England, UK
69
sanechoice.cloud/blog
Ahmedabad Gujarat, India
70
scnsoft.com/blog/category/ui-and-ux-design
Novi Sad Juznobacki okrug, Serbia
71
Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
72
sidebar.io
Chelmsford England, UK
73
siteinspire.com Texas USA
74
sitepoint.com/blog
Seattle Washington, US
75
smashingmagazine.com USA
76
softwebtuts.blogspot.com London England
77
solodev.com/blog Australia
78
speckyboy.com
Freiburg Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
79
studiovink.co.uk/news Pakistan
80
templatemonster.com/blog
Orlando Florida, USA
81
the-webdesigner.co/blog USA
82
thedsgnblog.com UK
83
thehotskills.com/blog New York US
84
trihead.com/blog
85
tympanus.net/codrops
Zagreb Grad Zagreb, Croatia
86
uxbooth.com Chandigarh India
87
uxplanet.org
Houston Texas, US
88
vandelaydesign.com/blog Alvor Portugal,
89
victorwinners.com
Atlanta Georgia, US
90
webdesign-inspiration.com/blog USA
91
webdesign.org
Pennsylvania USA
92
webdesign.tutsplus.com Lagos Nigeria,
93
webdesigndev.com
94
webdesignerdepot.com
95
webdesignertrends.com/category/webdesign
96
webdesignledger.com New York, USA
97
webdesigntips.blog
Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
98
webflow.com/blog France
99
webfx.com/blog/web-design USA
100
webgyaani.com
101
weblium.com/blog
San Francisco California, US
102
webmantra.net/blog
Pennsylvania USA
103
websitedrona.blogspot.com
New Delhi Delhi, India
104
wepushbuttons.com.au/blog-articles
Fort Lauderdale Florida, US
105
wpkube.com
Ahmedabad Gujarat, India
106
yuxer.com/blog

I have a lot of fun compiling these lists because it allows me to discover a bunch of new blogs, most of them with excellent content. It is also interesting to see how the different blogs on a specific niche perform under the parameters. Once again we based the analysis on Google’s Pagerank, Alexa rank, Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. The details about the algorithm can be found below the table.

Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of web design related content.

Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.

Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e., 1-100, 100-200, 200-400,400-600) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

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79 thoughts on “Top Web Design Blogs”

  1. Thank you so much for this impressive list! I really need these lists.

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  2. great blog, awesome.

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  3. Great tips and resources.This is looking so good.
    Thank you Sir.

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  4. Hi!.
    I was searching on internet and I found your web design blog..it is really intrestingkeep it up.look forward to read more from you

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  5. a good collection, thank you.

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  6. Keep up the good work

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  7. This is just what I was looking for. Sometimes it is useful to ‘borrow’ a blog layout. Especially when you are starting out.

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  8. This is a wonderfull list!!! Thanks so much! Great job!

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  9. Thanks for the list with Page rank Info.

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  10. while searching i found your blog after going through it i found Useful infomation from your blog.

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  11. That really pretty impressive comparison! And a great list of useful blogs.

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  12. Nice blog great information

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  13. Thanks for sharing this with all of us.

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  14. Pretty impressive comparison! And a list of useful blogs. Thanks!

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  15. Im a freelance designer with satisfied clients worldwide. Whether you are an individual requiring a small website or a large corporation requiring a much more intricate website, my dedication is uncompromising. Web Design is not just my job its my passion. If you are looking for professional web designer you are welcome then.

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  16. Really useful list, it’s quite an arduous task scouring the web for decent and highly ranked web design blogs so you’ve saved me quite a bit of time!

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  17. We just launched nowsayit.com … expect to see it here soon he he i hope so

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  18. Its a shame that Bartelme Design has dried up on his content. Always liked the work he produced.

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  19. Nice list, I hope my blog makes it on that list one day. Still have a ways to go

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  20. I am the new visitor to this blog and really impressed with the informative list !! Keep up posting the good stuff..

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  21. A well compiled list of blogs…thanks for sharing it with all of us.

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  22. Oh!… wow wow, nice list… I find it very interesting… I’ll some of it… coz I’ve already try most of it. But anyway i really like most of the list coz they really know what they are doing on the web industry…

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  23. Well, I agree with a few of those… I’ll have to look into some ofthe others… Thanks for the research.

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  24. Great list. But there is a problem that only home page contain good PR inner pages don’t have PR.

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  25. There is a lot of random web design blogs on that list, some I personally would not including in web design. However, see the way you guys are rating them by search it would only be fair. Very nice list none the less.

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  26. really an updater for me ,i have to updates my list right now ,although thanks for sharing such good information.

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  27. This is definitely a great list. And I agree with your list. These are really resourceful and top related blogs on web designs. Very impressive…

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  28. Nice post but perhaps it should read top 25 ranked web-design blog
    because my blog is clearly missing from the list.

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  29. great tips thanks

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  30. Mandy, they are built into the theme.

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  31. How did u do that? All by hand? I am really interested in that because I’m trying to automate some of the things you did.

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  32. Great post!

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  33. Where’s Digital Web Magazine (www.digital-web.com)? It has a Google PR of 9 — the highest of ’em all. Thanks for a great list.

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  34. Thank you for discovering some great blogs for me

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  35. Good one John, I will update the list.

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  36. Great list! Why isn’t Jeffrey Zeldman (http://www.zeldman.com/) on it though? He probably taught most other people on that list everything they know!

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  37. Thanks for placing tutorial blog on your list, pleasantly surprised we did so well.

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  38. Bloglines is the only RSS reader that reveals its numbers publicly.

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  39. Thanks Daniel.

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  40. Gotta tell ya, I’ve never thought of making a list of Top 25 Web Design Blogs or anything like that. But it is a good list indeed. I’ve found some very interesting themes…thanks.

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  41. Not many surprises there especially A List Apart and Smashing Magazine.

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  42. Very good list, and I’m even subscribed to several of them, so I guess I’m on the right track.

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  43. Congrats on the Adage Power 150 David.

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  44. Thanks for the inclusion! I recently joined the Adage Power 150 list, and this is great too.

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  45. Nice list, I have seen the works of A list apart and smashing magazine will take some time out to go through the others from list to gain some inspiration for my designing skills

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  46. Great toplist of blogs about design. In order to have a successful blog you must always take care of your website design. These blogs are giving out for sure a lot of useful tips. Thanks for the top;). I will visit the top 5 ;).

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  47. Yeah Brian I told you, an RSS icon should do it hehe.

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  48. ,…,…!

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  49. Great list Daniel, looks like I should build up my RSS readership, huh? P.S. Love the redesign here!

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  50. Ah, impressive list! I’ve actually seen a few of these before (sorry for not remember for you the other day!)

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