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Facebook and Its Connection to The Design Communities

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 Design Communities



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.

Animhut

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.

Onextrapixel

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!

Arbenting

BuySellAds


BuySellAds help online advertisers and website publishers buy and sell ads better.

BuySellAds

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.

Creativefan

Creative Urbia


Creative Urbia provides everything you need to know to become a more experienced web and graphic designer.

Creative Urbia

NaIdzgraphics


Naldz Graphics is a Design Blog dedicated to help the Design Community.

Naldzgraphics

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.

CSS Reflex

Design Juices


A Design Blog that hopes to inform, inspire and improve.

Design Juices

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.

Design Reviver

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.

Envato

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.

Graphic Mania

Logo Design Love


Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities.

Logo Design Love

Media Loot


Media Loot offers premium, hand-selected resources for Designers.

Medialoot

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.

Nenuno

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.

Pro Blog Design

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.

The Pro Designer

Richworks


Richworks is all about uniqueness in the design world. This blog is about graphic design resources, photoshop/illustrator tutorials and lots more.

Richworks

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.

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.

Aext.net

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.

Speckyboy

Smashing Apps


Smashing apps provide free and useful online resources for designers and developers.

Smashingapp

W3 Mag


A web community created to help you build a web business and learn about web development and online marketing.

w3Mag

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.

UXbooth

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.

Web Design Fan

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.

WPBeginner

Web Urbanist


Web Urbanist features daily original articles on alternative art, dynamic design, and visual culture serving over a million monthly readers.

Weburbanist

Your Inspiration Web


The community of inspiration dedicated to web design - tutorials, guides and freebies.

The Inspiration Web

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.

Smashing Magazine

Six Revisions


Six Revisions is a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers.

Six Revision

Design Informer


Design Informer is a web design and graphic design blog. We feature freelance articles, tutorials, freebies, resources, and inspiration posts.

Design Informer

UX Magazine


UX Magazine is a leading, Webby-nominated, online user experience publication.

UXMag

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.

A List Apart

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.

Abduzeedo

Think Vitamin


Think Vitamin is Carsonified's blog about the web.

Think Vitamin

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.

Boagworld

CSS Tricks


Chris Coyier is a web designer from Madison, WI currently living in Chicago, IL and working for Wufoo.

CSS Trick

Design Shack


Design Shack showcases inspiring web design, alongside resources and tutorials for you to succeed in the same way.

Design Shack

FreelanceFolder


FreelanceFolder is a community for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and web-workers.

Freelance Folder

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.

1st Web Designer

Go Media


Go Media is a creative agency specializing in brand development, art direction, and interactive media.

Go 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.

Tutorial9

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.

Web Design Ledger

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?

Why not share your thoughts with us on the use of Facebook to increase interactivity with your readers and Like Us on our Facebook Page now!



Written by: Jared Thompson for Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch | 14 comments
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