Matt Jones’s excelent site frownland is one that I surf most every day. He’s a designer who lives in London. His blog is insightful and fun. His designs are clean and efficient. There are too many good sites out there right now. Once upon a time, I’d read the daily report at Zeldman’s site and that would cover most of the bases for me (it’s sort of like CNN for web designers). But now that I’m doing so many different things, I have to go to different places to keep up with events (when I can, when I bother). Not all of them are as entertaining as the ones I’ve mentioned so far in this post. I read security focus to keep up with Linux security issues (even though the site could be a poster child for bad page design–over half of the screen is eaten up in advertising banners and needlessly large navigational elements). To keep on top of what’s going on in the open source/free software communities, I’ve been surfing NewsForge more, along with the larger, more generalized computer news sites (e.g. ZDNet, CNet, etc.). The only site I’ve read lately just for the fun of it is Cardigan.
Too much talk. I have a big project to finish and other, smaller ones in the works…