Creative Exploration
The creative media resources on this site are continually growing and expanding, just like the tools, technologies, and best practices used by industry professionals, so please feel free to mark this page as your base camp.
Intro to Front-end Build Tools
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
Intro to CMS via WordPress
The Box Model
The Web Design and Development Process
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Quality Assurance Checklist
Intro to Frontend Web Development
Intro to Web Hosting
Intro to Design Patterns
What Project Should I Choose?
Iterative Design
Web Layout Techniques & Strategies
Git-based Workflows using Github
Inspiration
Web Design Terminology: A Primer
Intro to Node.js and npm
Intro to SASS via PrePros
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
Design Systems
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
How to Begin Planning
Typography for the Web
Draft a Conceptual Plan
Set Summer Goals
Project Brief
Create a Course Web Site
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
Markup Text with HTML
Design Your Resume
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Typography Specimen Tests
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Positioning and Layout Tests
Interaction Design Foundation
StatCounter Global Stats
U.S. Web Design Standards
Usability.gov
Nielsen Norman Group
Designing with Web Standards
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
The Design of Everyday Things
Animation at Work
HTML & CSS
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
Butterick’s Practical Typography
The Elements of Typographic Style
Javascript & JQuery
Swiss Graphic Design
Big list of web design related people:
- Donald Norman – https://jnd.org/
- Jakob Nielson – https://www.nngroup.com/people/jakob-nielsen/
- Jeffrey Zeldman – http://www.zeldman.com/
- Jeremy Keith – https://adactio.com/
- Eric Meyer – https://meyerweb.com/
- Ethan Marcotte – https://ethanmarcotte.com/
- Chris Coyier – https://chriscoyier.net/
- Dave Rupert – https://daverupert.com/
- Jen Simmons – https://jensimmons.com/
- Rachel Andrew – https://rachelandrew.co.uk/
- Andy Clarke – https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/
- Val Head – https://valhead.com/
- Sarah Drasner – https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/
- Brad Frost – https://bradfrost.com/
- Michael Beirut – https://www.pentagram.com/about/michael-bierut
- Jason Pamental – https://ethanmarcotte.com/
- Jason Santa Maria – https://jasonsantamaria.com/
- Zach Leatherman – https://www.zachleat.com/
- Elliot Jay Stocks – https://elliotjaystocks.com/
- Scott Jehl – https://scottjehl.com/
- Remy Sharp – https://remysharp.com/
- Richard Rutter – http://clagnut.com/
- Nicolas Gallagher – http://nicolasgallagher.com/
- Una Kravetts – https://una.im/
- Chen Hui Jing – https://chenhuijing.com/
- Chris Ferdinandi – https://gomakethings.com/, https://vanillajsguides.com/, https://vanillajsacademy.com/, https://vanillajstoolkit.com, https://vanillajspodcast.com/
List of Online Learning Sites
- Jen Simmon’s HTML Essential Training course on LinkedIn Learning (FREE)
- Wes Bos’s Courses
- JavaScript 30 (FREE)
- What the Flexbox? (FREE)
- CSS Grid (FREE)
- Ethan Marcotte’ Designing Accessible and Responsive Websites course via The Gymnasium (FREE)
- Frontend Masters Courses
List of Online Surveys (for usage stats)
- Design Tools Surveys – 2022
- State of CSS
- State of JS
- Browser Stats – GS Stat Counter
- CSS Tricks
- Can I Use
- CSS Dev Conf
- WordPress.org
- WordPress.com
- Display Posts Shortcode
- Insert Pages
- SiteOrigin Page Builder
- Responsive Screenshots
- Am I Responsive
- Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
- PSD Covers
- 12 Principles of Animation
- Fonts In Use
- Cody House
- Little Snippets
- Animated Flexbox
- Codrops
- Font Pairing Suggestions
- Daily UI Design Challenge
- Mockup Templates
- Premium Pixels
- Graphic Pear
- Adobe Color
- Site Inspire
- MarkSheet
- Jeffrey Zeldman 20 years of Web Design
- The Grid System
- Coursera
- Student Work
Videos & YouTube Channels
- Youtube Channels
- Layout Land by Jen Simmons (coded layout lessons)
- Keyframers (coded web animation)
- Chris Coyier (CSS-Tricks screencasts)
- A List Apart (conference talk videos)
- JamStack Conf (conference talk videos)
- The Futur (design lessons)
- Level Up Tutorials by Scott Telinski (Javascript lessons)
- Wes Bos (Javascript lessons)
The Elements of Typographic Style
Art of the Menu
Typewolf
Swiss Graphic Design
Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
I Love Typography
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Typography for the Web
Typography Specimen Tests
Netlify
Smashing Magazine Email Newsletter
Sass
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Github
Smashing Magazine
Designing with Web Standards
Typography Specimen Tests
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
Positioning and Layout Tests
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
ScrollOut
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
CSS Podcast
Javascript & JQuery
Create a Course Web Site
The Box Model
Intro to Web Hosting
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
HTML & CSS
Smashing Magazine Podcast
Figma
The Web Design and Development Process
Quality Assurance Checklist
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
Shop Talk