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Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.

The second annual survey by A List Apart seeks information about the people behind [...]

Something Gorgeous
I have trouble creating beautiful designs, but no trouble identifying them. For anyone else in this same boat, here are some tools and ideas to help create respectable work, design already included:

Obsidian Dawn: beautiful PhotoShop brushes, to add a graceful artistic element to any print or web work.
Mad Mimi: prettier e-mail campaigns, with a [...]

Today is also a non-technical day, filled with well-written white papers. Grasp the finer details of web development issues, from a business-oriented standpoint:

Short version of The Beekeeper - a gentle and intelligent introduction to open source and how it fits into business. James Dixon quashes misconceptions surrounding open source and illuminating the potential in the [...]

There are days when tutorials just won’t cut it. Is your question too advanced for the forums? Need to talk to a person instead?
Try connecting to a community of developers. Yahoo! Groups and the Figleaf Mailing Lists are great ways to find and talk to the pros. The ones I subscribe to are:

Dreamweaver on Yahoo! [...]

It seems web services will get no winter break. Sigh. No rest for the wicked, I suppose
Enjoy a few good links, on me:

devlisting.com - all things web developer/web designer-oriented. A resource that lists links for each subject, with the best resources are pinned to the top.
Good News for anyone who embeds Flash into [...]