"When finding inspiration for your next project or a new brush that is just right, web design blogs have come a long way over the past year. Some have stuck with us for many years, faded away to be forgotten or seemed to have become popular in a short amount of time. This is a collection of the 16 most influential web design blogs on the internets in 2009. In some form or another they have all helped us become better designers, coders, and all around rockstars. Plus, they give out loads of awesome freebies and ask nothing in return. How much more awesomeness can you ask for? Let’s have a look shall we! 1. Smashing Magazine Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Twitter Followers: 79,000 – @smashingmag smashing-mag 2. Abduzeedo Abduzeedo is a blog about design. What began as a means for backup after an ugly robbery, is now one of the design world’s most sought after blog for inspiration and tutorials. Twitter Followers: 31,500 – @Abduzeedo abduzeedo 3. WebDesigner Depot Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices. Twitter Followers: 73,500 – @DesignerDepot webdesigner-depot 4. Hongkiat’s Design Weblog Topics covered include Photoshop tutorials and brushes, Vectors, design tools and softwares, Wordpress, HTML/CSS and Inspiration showcase. Twitter Followers: 10,000 – @hongkiat hongkait 5. Speckyboy Design Magazine Paul Andrew covers every aspect of web design and development offering free and high quality resources as well as inspiration through various showcases. Twitter Followers: 5,700 – @speckyboy speckyboy 6. Noupe Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. This site was founded in 2007 and was recently purchased by the... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

1. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ 2. http://abduzeedo.com/ 3. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ 4. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/ 5. http://speckyboy.com/ 6. http://www.noupe.com/ 7. http://sixrevisions.com/ 8. http://css-tricks.com/ 9. http://webdesignledger.com/ 10. http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/ 11. http://www.outlawdesignblog.com/ 12. http://vandelaydesign.com/blog... 13. http://www.webdesignerwall.com/ 14. http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/ 15. http://www.tutorial9.net/ 16. http://designm.ag/ - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

The cost of advertising in these blogs is sky-high... - TrafficBug

Is it? Do you know how much? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

1 (smashingmag), 3(webdesignerdepot), 6(noupe), 9(webdesignledger), 12(vandelaydesign) are always among the first ones on my google results. - Francisco

@Franc Google search results of what query string? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

You know, general 'how to' design-related queries. - Francisco