Facebook and Its Connection to The Design Communities: "
It’s a small world we live in today, and it’s getting smaller by the day. We can reach out to others miles and oceans away with just a click of a button. Communicating with someone far away is no longer a problem and we have many different kinds of advancement in technology to thank; Facebook is one of them.
Facebook has taken the world by storm and helps to connect people from all walks of life in one very massive online arena. We all have different reasons for using Facebook, or not. Some individuals log into their Facebook account on the hour to play games, others only keep tabs on their account once a day, and there are others who rarely check their account and keeps it only as a means to stay connected to friends or family.
Facebook is just one form of social networking that exists in our society today. If Facebook is not your thing, then perhaps Twitter, or MySpace, or any other top social networking sites is.
This article focuses on Facebook, one of the most popular networking media that exists today with millions of users online every hour. With such a large audience, owners of design blogs have tapped into its popularity and have integrated Facebook as a platform to increase interactivity with their readers.
Here is a showcase of some of my favourite design blogs that have their own Facebook pages on the social networking giant, some of which are highly interactive and is a joy to be a part of.
Facebook Design Community Pages You Mustn’t Miss
Great design sites are no longer restricted to the common sites on the Internet. These are some of the most amazing design sites that can be found on Facebook. Check them out! You might just find yourself being a fan of one or more of them today.
Animhut
The creation of M.SriGanesh, AnimHuT is designed to be a resource for students, web and graphic designers alike in the hopes of helping people get better at Photoshop/Illustrator, other multimedia software and to offer some inspiration about design and multimedia trends.
Onextrapixel
A digital community from Singapore devoted to sharing web freebies, great tutorials, useful internet resources, online tips and tricks for web designers and developers the world over.
Arbenting Design
Arbenting is the personal portfolio of Angie Bowen, a freelance designer and developer from Colorado. With over a decade of experience honing her creative voice, Angie has settled into graphic and web design, graphic art, and web development to make her creative home!
BuySellAds
BuySellAds help online advertisers and website publishers buy and sell ads better.
Creative Fan
CreativeFan is a creative media network focusing on providing the highest quality resources, articles, roundups, tutorials, and inspiration for creative fields. CreativeFan also posts daily updates in fields such as graphic design, web design, audio, music, video, computer graphics, and photography.
Creative Urbia
Creative Urbia provides everything you need to know to become a more experienced web and graphic designer.
NaIdzgraphics
Naldz Graphics is a Design Blog dedicated to help the Design Community.
CSS Reflex
CSSReflex is the fastest growing new design blog maintained by Naeem Nur. Topics focus on web design, css, tutorials, resources, inspiration, wordpress, blogger and blogger templates.
Design Juices
A Design Blog that hopes to inform, inspire and improve.
Design Reviver
The goal of Design Reviver is to provide Web Designers with valuable information. You will find useful tutorials, free downloads, sources of inspiration, and articles covering a wide range of web design related topics.
Envato
Envato operates some awesome digital goods marketplaces, tutorial sites, and other creative services. They make brilliant websites like the Envato Marketplaces for buying and selling digital goods, Tuts+ for learning things like Photoshop and Illustrator, and FreelanceSwitch, the Freelance Community.
Graphic Mania
Graphic Mania is the place for design lovers and fans. Graphic Mania fuels your creativity with free graphic resources, tutorials and inspirations. Graphic Mania hopes to deliver knowledge, training and inspirations about graphic design, web design and technology.
Logo Design Love
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities.
Media Loot
Media Loot offers premium, hand-selected resources for Designers.
Neuno
A creative showcase blog, displaying the freshest logotypes, web interfaces, illustrations and design resources from around the web. Neuno aims to promote new artists, designers, photographers and illustrators by showcasing their work to our readers.
Pro Blog Design
Pro Blog Design writes free articles on WordPress, web design and getting the most out of your blog. Pro Blog Design also blogs regularly on how to make your blog’s design even better with CSS, JaveScript, PHP and anything else that will help.
The Pro Designer
The Pro Designer is a state of the art blog providing a wealth of practical information aimed at modern professional graphic designers, web designers, and web developers.
Richworks
Richworks is all about uniqueness in the design world. This blog is about graphic design resources, photoshop/illustrator tutorials and lots more.
Skillz Community
Information, inspiration, resources, freebies, tips, tutorials, tricks and much more funny things for all who want to contribute and be part of the Skillz Community.
Aext.net
AEXT – An Extension of the Net – is a design magazine that publishes all things web design. Articles are published by web professionals for web professionals featuring tutorials, collections, industry insights, and other resources.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
Speckyboy Design Magazine offers insightful tutorial, time-saving techniques, fresh and useful resources and inspirational art, covering web design and development, graphic design, advertising, mobile applications and even, the occasional Lego post.
Smashing Apps
Smashing apps provide free and useful online resources for designers and developers.
W3 Mag
A web community created to help you build a web business and learn about web development and online marketing.
UXBooth
The UX Booth is a blog by and for the user experience community. Their readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers, but anyone interested in making the web a better place to be is welcome.
Web Design Fan
WebDesignFan is a blog about web design and development. A design blog that helps designers find inspiration and resources to develop their work.
WPBeginner
WPBeginner is a resource to help new WordPress Users and provide them with free WordPress Blog Setup and other resourceful articles and tutorials to help them along their way of using WordPress.
Web Urbanist
Web Urbanist features daily original articles on alternative art, dynamic design, and visual culture serving over a million monthly readers.
Your Inspiration Web
The community of inspiration dedicated to web design - tutorials, guides and freebies.
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Their aim is to inform their readers about the latest trends and fresh techniques in design and Web development.
Six Revisions
Six Revisions is a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers.
Design Informer
Design Informer is a web design and graphic design blog. We feature freelance articles, tutorials, freebies, resources, and inspiration posts.
UX Magazine
UX Magazine is a leading, Webby-nominated, online user experience publication.
A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content. Since 1998, A List Apart has explored the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials.
Think Vitamin
Think Vitamin is Carsonified's blog about the web.
Boagworld
Boagworld is the blog of web strategist Paul Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset (hence the cows). He produces a weekly podcast with UX consultant Marcus Lillington on building & running sites. They also run the web design agency Headscape.
CSS Tricks
Chris Coyier is a web designer from Madison, WI currently living in Chicago, IL and working for Wufoo.
Design Shack
Design Shack showcases inspiring web design, alongside resources and tutorials for you to succeed in the same way.
FreelanceFolder
FreelanceFolder is a community for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and web-workers.
1stwebdesigner
1stwebdesigner is a design blog dedicated to bloggers, freelancers, web-developers and designers. Topics focus on web design,graphic design, tutorials and inspirational articles.
Go Media
Go Media is a creative agency specializing in brand development, art direction, and interactive media.
Tutorial9
Tutorial9 – a collection of teachers, experts, and caring folk from around the world, all gathered in one place to pass along knowledge to absolutely anyone interested in learning.
Web Design Ledger
The Web Design Ledger is a publication written by web designers for web designers. The primary purpose of this site is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources.
Do You Have Your Facebook Page?
Does your design blog have its own Facebook fan page? If you do not have one, would you consider creating one and jump on this trend? Are there other great design blogs that have Facebook pages but weren’t mentioned in this list?
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