Yahoo has a nice little Site Explorer search that allows you to request a specific website URL that displays results of the highest ranked articles/pages on a specific website.
Based on my Twitter list “Top Design Blogs,” I searched each of the blogs in this list in Yahoo’s Site Explorer and compiled a Highest Rank List of 2009 below.
CatsWhoCode
10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress
Design Informer
Spectacular Holiday Typography
UX Magazine
Wireframing ahoy!
Drawar
Designs of the Year: 2009
Boagworld
7 Harsh Truths about running online communities
24 Ways
Working with RGBA Colour
Frank Chimero
Why Do We Art?
Vonster
How To: Get precise vector shapes with the pen tool
DesignWorkLife
Nonsense Infographics
Inspired Magazine
The Social Bird Icon Set
Web Designer Depot
Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009
Vandelay
25 Scripts for Dropdown Navigation Menus
ImJustCreative
12 LogoType Designs – Have you Seen These Series – Part 1
Speckyboy
21 Amazing Movie Posters Recreated with Lego
Smashing Magazine
Flavours Icon Set And Cute Tweeters Icon Set
Design*Sponge
DIY project: Recycled Cardboard Kitty Pad
CrazyLeaf Design
50+ New and Beautiful Free WordPress Themes
CMD+Shift Design
14 Applications to Make Your OSX Installation Better|
AisleOne
8 Ways To Improve Typography in Your Designs
Tutorial9
Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop
Fudge Graphics
Sticky Tape: Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes + Textures
Hongkiat
100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle
Six Revisions
30 Exceptional CSS Navigation Techniques
I Love Typography
The first one’s the hardest
Cameron Moll
Exploring Cufón, a sIFR alternative for font embedding
Logo Design Love
Ten logo design tips from the field
ISO50
Wes Anderson Project / Student Project
Jason Santa Maria
Pretty Sketchy
Elliot Jay Stocks
Design Trends in 2009
Just Creative Design
The Top 100 Best Fonts Of All Time
Spoon Graphics
Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices
David Airey
Forbes calls designers snooty
CSS Tricks
CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them
Veerle’s blog
Simple scalable CSS based breadcrumbs
Woorkup
10 Beautiful Sketches for Website Prototypes
The Netsetter
So You Want to Start a Startup? 5 Places to Start
Abduzeedo
45 Amazing Type Faces – Typographic Portraits
Design Shard
300+ Free Hi-Res grunge textures you’ve never seen before
Colorburned
46 Stunning High Resolution Photoshop Light Effect Brushes
Fuel Your Creativity
Grid Based Design Toolbox
Grace Smith
Get Wireframing: An All In One Guide
Niki Brown
The Worlds Ugliest Websites
Vector Tuts+
How to Create a Mosaic Portrait from a Photograph
My Ink Blog
10 Awesome Free Handwritten Fonts
Build Internet
Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
PSD Tuts+
50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
Net Tuts
Top 50 WordPress Tutorials
Swiss Miss
Ctrl – Alt – Del Pillows
Grain Edit
Frank Chimero Interview
Jessica Hische
Hand-Lettering
From The Couch
How To Use CSS Sprites
Carsonified
The Evolution of a Website Design
What was your favorite blog post of 2009? Feel free to share in the comments below. Here’s to everyone having a happy, healthy and inspiring 2010.
How ’bout this one, Brian?
http://richworks.in/2009/12/evolution-of-50-corporate-brand-logos/
nice post, some of these I missed. thanks!
Richie,
Looks great! Thanks for the great read and for sharing.
Sean,
Thanks. Glad I could point you in the direction of those you missed. Happy New Year.
Thank you so much for including my blog and post Brian.
I’m actually going down the list now and clicking away. I was planning to get off the computer but I guess that won’t happen now. Thanks a lot! Great idea!
Great list! How about this one from my fellow countryman jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/12/24/sketching-wireframing-kit.aspx
Thanks for the list. These are all great sites. Happy New Year everyone!
nice comparision. Very much inspirations in this links
For the lesser known design sites like BoxedinDesign, it was http://boxedindesign.com/category/in-your-bag/ articles.
I think I’m subscribed to 89% of these sites in your list. Have to give a second look to some of them because it’s been awhile.
Thanks for sharing your list Brian!
Hey Brian,
Thanks for including grainedit.com on your list!
Nice list. Great job with this. Especially jessicahische.com, she’s a top notch person. (Donating 100% of her profits to charity for the first week of January.) she’s good people.
Best wishes to you and yours.
Had no idea you could do this, and really quite interesting to see that the results are. This was a post done a while back and frankly, didn’t give it much after thought. So really interested to see which of my posts was listed.
Thanks for taking time to put this list together.
Graham
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Brian this is a fantastic roundup, bookmarked! Thanks so much for including my All-In-One Wireframing Guide, it was one of my first ‘popular’ posts and was one of my personal highlights of last year in terms of blogging.
Look forward to more great Design Cubicle articles this year!
Hadn’t seen some of these blogs…thanks for the list!
Thanks for your valuable Information.
Sweet. Makes my search for top notch blogs much easier. Thanks B.
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Hi, I have save this site for reference of good design. Thanks for posting and sharing this compiled sites of yours.
Thanks,
Rommel
Thank you for sharing the sites. I have bookmarked these for further reference.
A great selection of beautifully designed websites from your portfolio link.I want share some great wordpress websites