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.
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
Intro to Web Hosting
Typography for the Web
Design Systems
Intro to Front-end Build Tools
Git-based Workflows using Github
Web Design Terminology: A Primer
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
The Box Model
Intro to Design Patterns
Intro to Node.js and npm
Intro to Frontend Web Development
Intro to SASS via PrePros
Iterative Design
Intro to CMS via WordPress
Web Layout Techniques & Strategies
What Project Should I Choose?
How to Begin Planning
Inspiration
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Quality Assurance Checklist
The Web Design and Development Process
Draft a Conceptual Plan
Project Brief
Set Summer Goals
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Create a Course Web Site
Create a Simple Image Grid Portfolio Site
Design Your Resume
Typography Specimen Tests
Markup Text with HTML
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Positioning and Layout Tests
U.S. Web Design Standards
Usability.gov
Interaction Design Foundation
Nielsen Norman Group
StatCounter Global Stats
The Elements of Typographic Style
The Design of Everyday Things
Swiss Graphic Design
Designing with Web Standards
Animation at Work
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
HTML & CSS
Javascript & JQuery
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
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)
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Typography for the Web
Swiss Graphic Design
Typography Specimen Tests
Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
The Elements of Typographic Style
Art of the Menu
Typewolf
I Love Typography
The Web Design and Development Process
Typography Specimen Tests
The Box Model
ScrollOut
JS Basics: Functions and Syntax
Figma
Intro to Web Animation Techniques
HTML Basics: Elements and Syntax
Sass
Code a Simple Web Page with CSS
Javascript & JQuery
Smashing Magazine
Designing with Web Standards
HTML & CSS
Github
Positioning and Layout Tests
Shop Talk
Smashing Magazine Podcast
CSS Podcast
Smashing Magazine Email Newsletter
CSS Basics: Selectors and Syntax
Create a Course Web Site
Code a Simple HTML Web Page
Quality Assurance Checklist
Create a Featured Projects Portfolio Site
Netlify
Intro to Web Hosting