The Internet’s so fast moving it’s difficult to keep up with the latest design trends and web technologies. Every so often at ITM Design, we come across some excellent web design and development blogs that are constantly updated with excellent content to keep you on top of the moving trends. Below you will find some of our favourite web design and development blogs we like to visit on a regular basis.

We highly recommend you visit them all!

Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials

Why we like it: Great design with useful tutorials covering the latest web technologies.

Web Designer Wall is one of our favourite looking websites on the Internet. The design demonstrates the latest trends on the Internet; using layered, torn pieces of paper to make up different areas of the site, all sitting on top of a hand drawn abstract background with some areas being slightly grungy. The colours are rich and appealing without drawing the eye from the content.

It offers tutorials for web design and development, as well as news about the web and inspiration for designers. The site has a great online presence and the tutorials - which cover the latest web technologies - are always written extremely well with an extensive amount of n for each topic.

There’s many useful posts offering great resources for design inspiration and the owner of the website has an excellent flair for design, the graphics and tutorials on how to recreate them are plenty enough inspiration to make you want to open up Photoshop and start experimenting with the new ideas and techniques on offer.

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Free WYSIWYG Editor

FCKeditor is a free to use and very popular WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor for installation on your own website. It will turn the textareas on your website into fully functioning editors, with similar tools to those seen in Microsoft Word and similar word processing packages.

Here are our quick and simple steps to getting image uploads working in FCKeditor, allowing you to upload images to your website using FCKeditor’s friendly user interface.

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SearchWiki - customising SERPs.

Last week saw the release of Google’s SearchWiki which allows users to change the position of results in a search engine results page, as well as comment on and remove them entirely.

Next time you sign in to your Google account you will notice icons to the right of each result in a search engine results page (SERP). The first two of these buttons move the result up and down depending on how useful you find the website it’s linking to. Say for example, a query you often run returns the website you’re looking for ranked at number 5 in the list, and the above 4 have no relevance to what you want to find. Simply move your preferred website to position number 1!

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