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Recommended Apps

This list is pretty Mac-centric, but I'm sure you can find Windows alternatives with some clever Googling.

• Sip - the cutest color picker
• Pocket - for bookmarking links
• Evernote - for notes
• Alfred - for quickly opening applications on your computer
• Little Ipsum - Latin text generator
• 1Password - password management ($60 and totally worth it, but there are free alternatives)

Sites to Follow

• A List Apart - THE web design publication
• CSS-Tricks - trips and tricks for writing CSS and other front-end. Very well written tutorials and code snippets
• Smashing Magazine - fantastic magazine with tutorials, viewpoints, you name it!
• Designer News - Hacker News for designers.
• Codrops - Tutorials for fun effects and animations, etc.
• The Pastry Box Project - kind of like self-help articles for/by web designers.

Newsletters

• Sidebar.io  - daily email list with excellent design and dev links, it’s awesome
• CSS Weekly - weekly list of CSS and front-end dev resources, articles, and tips
• Smashing Newsletter - monthly a roundup of Smashing Mag. articles and much more!
• Lara’s Newsletter - if you want to! I announce workshops and send out helpful links every now and then.

Book Recommendations

• HTML & CSS - beautiful book and a great guide
• A Book Apart - buy all of them!
• Shay Howe, Learn HTML & CSS - excellent tutorials, also available online.

Free Design Resources

• The Stocks - collection of free stock photo websites
• Subtle Patterns -  Lots of pretty and …wait for it… subtle patterns for backgrounds and whatnot.
• Icomoon - icons!
• Unheap - collection of jQuery plugins
• Adobe Kuler - nice color scheme designer
• Design Patterns on CodePen - nice copy/paste bits of code for common elements .

Tutorial Websites and Code Schools

• Shay Howe’s Learn HTML & CSS - also available as a book. I will be assigning lessons from here as we move through the course.
• Codecademy - the Web Fundamentals is a good starting point.
• Lynda.com - video tutorials about everything you could possibly imagine. Use this link for a 10 day free trial.
• Code School - Paths for HTML/CSS and JS among others.
• Treehouse - Similar to the above. Paid after a certain point.

Other Link Lists

• Jessica Hische Resources - she’s so awesome
• webdesign repo - oh my word, so many links!
• Web Design Subreddit