This page displays links to sites I find interesting, diverting, well designed, or invaluable.
Personal blogs/journals
- Sincerely ~ The personal blog of Misaki.
- Cavemonkey50
- Ronald Heft’s blog where he shares his technological ramblings with the rest of the world. I use his WebSTAT Tracker WordPress plugin.
Blogs of professional Web designers
- mezzoblue
- Weblog of Canadian Web designer, Dave Shea. Also writes many articles about Web design and related technologies.
- Christopher Schmitt
- Personal blog of Web designer, author, and idea generator extraordinaire, Christopher Schmitt.
- Stuff and Nonsense
- A well known and well respected Web design studio led by the Creative Director, Andy Clarke.
- SimpleBits
- The site for a Web design studio founded by Dan Cederholm, as well as his personal journal.
- Yesterdayishere
- The personal blog and portfolio of an award-winning Web designer, Bojan Janjanin.
- Arathael
- El blog personal del diseñador-Web y programador, Arathael. Vive en México y es muy amable.
Amusements
- xkcd
- Like the site says, “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Deliciously wicked and smart. The author is a genius.
Online shopping
- Lolita Kisama
- An Internet-based shopping center for Japanese visual kei and gothic lolita-inspired fashion. Ships internationally. The items here are relatively low-cost as long as you keep away from the coats and leather goods.
- YesAsia
- A top-notch Asian entertainment and music CD vendor based in, I think, Hong Kong. Offers free international shipping. One criticism I have of the site, however, is that they mostly seem to cater to the needs of pop music fans and rarely stock items that aren’t mainstream. For example, Japanese rock/metal by independent labels.
Other
- Browse Happy ~ Find out why Internet Explorer should be abandoned in favor of four better browsers.
- CSS Zen Garden
- Repository of hundreds of CSS designs that can be applied to a single HTML template. “A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.”