Since I began teaching “Web Site Design” at Lawrence Tech, I’ve researched a bazillion (or so) web design sites.
Web sites about web sites, if you will. Thousands abound, though most are crap. You’d be shocked at how many these so-called “sources” still carry a torch for Dynamic HTML, ignore open web standards in favor of vendor-locked drivel or give honest SEO pros a bad name.
Never mind the foolish attempts to monetize social media. Tsk, tsk.
Having tossed those bad apples, I’ve sampled the good ones with my students. Some of the better sites have come and gone—forgotten classics such as Webmonkey (long abandoned by Lycos) and Builder.com (which redirects to a distant cousin Down Under). Charity Kahn, if you’re out there: we miss your “Stupid Web Tricks.”
Anyway, I was asked the following a few weeks ago by Tim M., one of my students:
“Could you share with us your most favorite web design sites?”
Sure, I thought. I’ve been meaning to publish a complete list of my personal favorites to share with my class. This will be simple. It wasn’t.
He was my colleague in our Technical and Professional Communication program at Lawrence Tech. I was fortunate enough to call him “Kevin.” We’d debate varied topics such as writing styles for the web, our favorite Adobe products and the occasional misfit student. When he labored to form the Media Communications program at LTU, he valued my humble opinion during its foundation, even going so far as to recommend I teach a course or two. And unlike many of my own professors from my days toting a backpack, Kevin’s door was always open to our students.
I couldn’t let a Wednesday pass without taking up your evening for a brief while. Tough love, I know. But it’s why you pay me the big bucks.
I suppose the guilt of presenting at a 
