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The UK has one of the most vibrant and active web design communities in the world. Despite this it could be argued most of the large blogs, forums, showcases etc. are based in the USA and a lot of the discussion points are coming from there too. Here are 17 fantastic sites all focusing on web design, and all from the UK! [Edit: We are now up to 18]

Blogs…

www.designshack.co.uk
Possibly the largest of its kind in the UK. Regularly posts well researched and written articles.

www.thewebdesignblog.co.uk
Much smaller but no less perfectly formed web design blog. A good mixture of resources, opinion and interviews.

www.creativenerds.co.uk
Another large design blog mixing it up with free resources, inspiration posts and articles.

www.designjuices.co.uk
A fast growing UK web design blog with fresh content posted almost daily.

Forums…

www.webdesignerforum.co.uk
Very big, but also very friendly and open forum with a supportive ethos amongst the users.

www.designerstalk.com
Very active forum with some great information and people on hand to give you some peer to peer help when you need it.

www.designforums.co.uk
Smaller than the previous two forums but no less useful or helpful.

Galleries…

www.cssgarden.co.uk
Updated daily with fresh designs.

www.css-design-yorkshire.com
Gallery of over 5,500 bloomin’ good web designs.

www.designfridge.co.uk
Very stylish gallery with more quality control than you usually see from showcase sites.

Tutorial sites…

www.photoshop-plus.co.uk
Relatively new on the scene but churning out high quality step by step guides every week.

www.designchair.co.uk
A round up of tutorials from other websites, essentially acting like a quality feed.

www.cssplay.co.uk
An absolute monster of a website full of code ready for you to use on your website.

Resources…

www.vectorpatterns.co.uk
Free vector patterns for you to use on your projects.

Free open source web templates for you to download, some great some not. Worth going through cherry picking the best of the bunch.

www.designdeck.co.uk
A mixture of round ups and links to sites offering free resources to download such as templates and icons.

www.web-design-list.com
Pretty much as the name suggests, a massive list of web design related websites.

Recommended by our blog readers…

blog.spoongraphics.co.uk
Tutorials, news, giveaways and more makes up this leading web design blog, and one that should have been on the original list!

I’m sure there are countless sites that haven’t been included in this list. If you know of one or own one leave a comment and I’ll get it added.

Name:Ricky Hayes

About:A valued member of the Heart Internet team since 2007, Ricky is a System Administrator responsible for looking after the company's webservers, mailservers, upgrades and security.

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