Top 25 Web Design Blogs

The Top 25 Blogs is becoming a trademark around here. We have already created the Top 25 Blogs About Blogging and the Top 25 SEO Blogs. Now it is time to cover the web design niche.

I have a lot of fun compiling these lists because it allows me to discover a bunch of new blogs, most of them with excellent content. It is also interesting to see how the different blogs on a specific niche perform under the parameters. Once again we based the analysis on Google’s Pagerank, Alexa rank, Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. The details about the algorithm can be found below the table.


#1	A List Apart	8	10	10	10	38
#2	Smashing Magazine	6	10	10	10	36
#3	456 Berea Street	7	8	10	8	33
#4	Meyer Web	8	7	9	7	31
#5	Simple Bits	7	7	10	6	30
#6	Pearsonified	7	6	7	10	30
#7	Tutorial Blog	5	8	7	8	28
#8	CSS Beauty	7	8	7	5	27
#9	Snook.ca	7	7	7	6	27
#10	Bartelme Design	7	6	9	4	26
#11	The Man in Blue	7	5	10	3	25
#12	Andy Budd	8	3	10	4	25
#13	Particle Tree	6	6	8	5	25
#14	Warpspire	7	4	3	10	24
#15	Brian Gardner	6	7	1	10	24
#16	Sitepoint Design Blog	6	10	4	4	24
#17	The Undersigned	7	3	3	10	23
#18	Bitt Box	5	7	5	6	23
#19	Fadtastic	5	3	5	10	23
#20	Colour Lovers	0	9	5	8	14
#21	David Airey	4	7	3	8	22
#22	Design Meltdown	5	6	7	4	22
#23	Clagnut	7	3	8	3	21
#24	Dev Lounge	6	6	4	5	21
#25	Smiley Cat	6	4	7	3	20

Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of web design related content.

Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.

Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e., 1-100, 100-200, 200-400,400-600) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

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46 Responses to “Top 25 Web Design Blogs”

Eli on October 2nd, 2007 7:59 am

Ah, impressive list! I’ve actually seen a few of these before (sorry for not remember for you the other day!)
Brian Gardner on October 2nd, 2007 8:02 am

Great list Daniel, looks like I should build up my RSS readership, huh? P.S. Love the redesign here!
sofish on October 2nd, 2007 9:09 am

呵呵,好像这次来了模板变了…嗯,不错的文章…收藏了!
Daniel on October 2nd, 2007 9:26 am

Yeah Brian I told you, an RSS icon should do it hehe.
blogstheme.com on October 2nd, 2007 9:35 am

Great toplist of blogs about design. In order to have a successful blog you must always take care of your website design. These blogs are giving out for sure a lot of useful tips. Thanks for the top;). I will visit the top 5 ;).
Keith Dsouza on October 2nd, 2007 10:01 am

Nice list, I have seen the works of A list apart and smashing magazine will take some time out to go through the others from list to gain some inspiration for my designing skills
David Airey on October 2nd, 2007 12:16 pm

Thanks for the inclusion! I recently joined the Adage Power 150 list, and this is great too.

Brian,

Don’t worry about adding that RSS icon. I don’t want to have the lowest subscriber rate here.
Daniel on October 2nd, 2007 12:29 pm

Congrats on the Adage Power 150 David.
Charity on October 2nd, 2007 3:23 pm

Very good list, and I’m even subscribed to several of them, so I guess I’m on the right track.

Not sure what the big deal is with Bloglines though. Why does a Bloglines-based readership have more prominence than another service? Have I overlooked a fundamental RSS marketing strategy?
Jermayn Parker on October 2nd, 2007 5:52 pm

Not many surprises there especially A List Apart and Smashing Magazine.

I tend to think A List Apart can be a bit complicated at times however!
Bill on October 2nd, 2007 7:28 pm

Gotta tell ya, I’ve never thought of making a list of Top 25 Web Design Blogs or anything like that. But it is a good list indeed. I’ve found some very interesting themes…thanks.
David Airey on October 3rd, 2007 12:30 am

Thanks Daniel.

Charity asks a good question, about Bloglines. I really don’t know much about that. Do more people use Bloglines than Google reader? Is that a stupid question and I’m way off-track?
Daniel on October 3rd, 2007 1:12 am

Bloglines is the only RSS reader that reveals its numbers publicly.

I could have used Feedburner, but not all the blogs use this service.
Oli Dale on October 3rd, 2007 2:44 am

Thanks for placing tutorial blog on your list, pleasantly surprised we did so well.
John Lampard on October 3rd, 2007 3:47 am

Great list! Why isn’t Jeffrey Zeldman (http://www.zeldman.com/) on it though? He probably taught most other people on that list everything they know!
Daniel on October 3rd, 2007 4:03 am

Good one John, I will update the list.
Shashank on October 3rd, 2007 5:00 am

Thank you for discovering some great blogs for me
Meryl on October 11th, 2007 5:12 am

Where’s Digital Web Magazine (www.digital-web.com)? It has a Google PR of 9 — the highest of ‘em all. Thanks for a great list.
Mandy on October 12th, 2007 12:18 pm

Great post!

I know it’s a little off topic but can I ask which plugins you use for related posts and bookmarks? Or did you write it into the theme.
maurizio on October 15th, 2007 8:42 am

How did u do that? All by hand? I am really interested in that because I’m trying to automate some of the things you did.

Have a look at my site.

Maurizio
Daniel on October 16th, 2007 7:37 am

Mandy, they are built into the theme.

Maurizio, I did it by hand.
skiing in italy on November 2nd, 2007 4:46 pm

great tips thanks
Glen(Web-Design Blog) on December 17th, 2007 4:25 pm

Nice post but perhaps it should read top 25 ranked web-design blog
because my blog is clearly missing from the list.
Daphne on January 18th, 2008 1:25 am

This is definitely a great list. And I agree with your list. These are really resourceful and top related blogs on web designs. Very impressive…
Reena (catch me) on January 24th, 2008 4:08 am

really an updater for me ,i have to updates my list right now ,although thanks for sharing such good information.
Effective Web Design on April 8th, 2008 3:04 am

There is a lot of random web design blogs on that list, some I personally would not including in web design. However, see the way you guys are rating them by search it would only be fair. Very nice list none the less.
Dubai Web Design, Development on April 8th, 2008 3:47 pm

Great list. But there is a problem that only home page contain good PR inner pages don’t have PR.
Shirley on April 13th, 2008 10:53 pm

Well, I agree with a few of those… I’ll have to look into some ofthe others… Thanks for the research.
Erickson Juricks2Web on May 8th, 2008 6:15 am

Oh!… wow wow, nice list… I find it very interesting… I’ll some of it… coz I’ve already try most of it. But anyway i really like most of the list coz they really know what they are doing on the web industry…
Corporate Website Design on July 5th, 2008 5:12 am

A well compiled list of blogs…thanks for sharing it with all of us.
neo on July 14th, 2008 10:29 am

I am the new visitor to this blog and really impressed with the informative list !! Keep up posting the good stuff..
James Smith on July 30th, 2008 5:46 am

This list is very helpful.We can easily compare with different page ranking system.You can also include top 25 marketing blogs in top 25 series.I want more tips to increase my website traffic.
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