Great Web Locations (Links)
Believe it or not, the Urban Mainframe isn't the only cool website on the Internet.
I've listed a few of my favourites here...
- CSS Zen Garden: A truly impressive illustration of just how powerful and far-reaching CSS can
be for web design
- Jakob Nielsen's "Alertbox": One of the most comprehensive resources available for anyone interested in
usability
- ThinkGeek: What do you buy the geek who has everything? ThinkGeek has an impressive catalogue
of gadgets and toys, "stuff for the smart masses"
- engadget: A weblog about gadgets
- The Lazy Guide to Net Culture: for those who want to appear like they're at the cutting edge of net culture
but can't be bothered to spend hours online
- b3ta: they love the web
- CSS Vault: the web's CSS site
- Widgetopia: A collection of widgets and UI elements from various websites, with notation
of their sterling or plate metal qualities
- Home of the Underdogs: A nostalgia trip for those of you who remember when computer games were addictive,
playable and unalduterated fun
- Digital Web Magazine: The web designer's online magazine of choice
- Museum of Hoaxes: An almost daily weblog about hoaxes, pranks, and fakery of all kinds
- Wired: Wired magazine online, issue by issue
- Forever_Geek: the links the others overlook
- Folklore: Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer, and
the people who created it
- TheMacMind: inside teenage macheads
- stock.xchng: free stock photography
- ping-o-matic: get your weblog noticed
- Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer
- SimpleCode: enter normal (X)HTML in the markup box and this neat utility will generate
entity-encoded markup suitable for posting <code> examples
- International Herald Tribune
- TinyURL.com: Making long URL's useable
- User Friendly: the comic strip
- Joel on Software: Joel Spolsky writes about user-centric software development... and other things
- A List Apart
- HTML Dog: A good practice guide to XHTML and CSS
- OK / Cancel: Illustrating HCI issues with written articles and a comic strip - incredibly
effective
- iPodlounge: All things iPod
Weblogs I Read
- Binary Bonsai
- Authentic Boredom
- Jennifer Grucza: Combining knitting with high-technology
- Andy Budd's Blogography
- white space
- Full Speed
- sidesh0w.com
- Atari Suicide
- 456 Berea Street
- Thinkless
- mezzoblue
- asterisk*
- jeffcroft.com
- Ryan Brill: A beautifully designed website and the home of the "xBlog" CMS
- SuperfluousBanter: Their content is more important than their name implies
- 1976design.com: Dunstan Orchard's wit and style of prose is superb, his weblog is hugely entertaining
and his photography mind-blowing
- The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal: simply indescribable (WARNING: Explicit Content!)
- Cult of Mac: Leander Kahney's Apple Macintosh blog, courtesy of Wired
- Tao of Mac: Tech Made Simple
- Everything Design
- alexking.org
- A Whole Lotta Nothing
- clagnut
- The Man in Blue
- LaughingMeme: Insightful Perl programming articles, amongst other things
- mehack
- TUG: The UberGeeks.net