Never stop improving if you want to be the best

The title of this article is still true even if you don’t want to be the best. By constantly working on yourself and improving little by little you will be able to get a whole lot better faster. The following articles pretty much covers a lot of the good resources available online to help you improve your skills.

50 Ways to Become a Better Designer

Stepping Up Your Skills: Areas for Continual Improvement as a Web Designer

On Designing a Better Blog Design

While online articles and resources are fantastic, there really is no substitute for a good book. Each month I give Amazon a huge chunk of my check in return for a bunch of books with that new smell. Yes, I smell my books when they arrive. Me and my UPS delivery man are on first name basis now as well. Here are some useful books I have read that will improve your blog design skills. I will write a more complete review of them in the coming weeks.

Design:

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Typography:
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Designing With Type)

Usability

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

Color:

Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

CSS:

The Art and Science of CSS

Photoshop:

The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Related posts

Give some love back?

If you like this post, please take a moment to vote. This will help the blog to grow even further. Thanks.
Site Templates and WordPress Themes.

5 comments

  1. Thanks for the link.

  2. very nice list, good course!

    • Chris
    • September 19th, 2008 at 7:03 am
  3. Excellent site http://www.blogdesignblog.com and I am really pleased to see you have this this post.
    I am crrently working in the south of france looking at property for sale, having fun in the sun and bookmarking everything that I find interesting on the net (including http://www.blogdesignblog.com of course !)
    It has taken me literally 2 hours and 13 minutes of searching the web to find you (just kidding!) so I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor from now on :)

    Thanks

  4. Very nice.thanks for sharing.

Add a comment