David Russell

Smashing Magazine recently posted an excellent article citing the best 42 design and technology magazines to keep an eye on. This pool certainly contains many A-list sites that are very common reads in the design community. Several on the list, like A List Apart and SitePoint, are veterans of the trade. Other magazines, like Vitamin, may be younger but have similar clout.

Interestingly, there are a couple of dormant sites in the list. One such site, Treehouse Magazine, hasn’t produced any real content in about a year. However, the authors are producing content fairly regularly at Particletree and have developed a really nice product, Wufoo. I guess Treehouse made the list because of the quality of content still available on the site, even though there isn’t any new content.

I had heard of nearly all the sites listed and I quickly checked out the sites that were new to me. Without a doubt, Smashing Magazine has collected quite a list. In fact, if you aren’t already reading Smashing Magazine, go ahead and add them to your feed reader. It’s nearly always great stuff. Of the sites listed in the article, I’d say you should hit them all to get a feel for them. Here’s a quick personal top three:

• A List Apart
• Vitamin
• Digital Web Magazine

And I’d like to add another site: Godbit.com. It’s an excellent resource for anyone into web standards and design and it’s a great community of believers.

If you plan on keeping up with all the trends in this industry, stop planning on it. You’ll never be able to take it all in. But you can stay in the upper tier of produced content by sticking to quality sites like those in Smashing’s list.

The List of 42 Design and Technology Magazines to Read
Smashing Magazine

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