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Discussion lists, online forums, and newsgroups can be a terrific way to meet people with common interests in the Web design and development world, ask and answer questions, and much more. Below you'll find a listing of especially good ones.
Also note the related links in the table of contents, as you'll find many more on specific topics, such as CSS Discussion Lists, Online Forums, and Newsgroups or SEO, SEM Discussion Lists and Online Forums.
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Do you know of any good discussion lists, online forums, or newsgroups related to Web site design, graphics, CSS, or related topics? Recommendations are welcome and encouraged!
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Design, Web Design, Graphic Design:
- Color Discussion Lists on Color
- Graphics Discussion Lists on Graphics
- Typography Discussion Lists, Online Forums on Typography
- CSS Discussion Lists, Newsgroups on CSS
- HTML Discussion Lists, and Newsgroups on Bradsoft TopStyle
- HTML Discussion Lists, and Newsgroups on Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver)
- JavaScript Discussion Lists, Newsgroups on JavaScript, ECMAScript
- PHP Discussion Lists, Newsgroups on PHP
- Regular Expressions Online Forums on Regular Expressions
Web Site Design and Development Discussion Lists and Online Forums
The discussion lists and forums listed below discuss all or nearly all aspects of Web site design and development from visual design to CSS, HTML, PHP, ASP, MySQL, and much more. See also More Discussion Lists, Online Forums, Newsgroups above.
Discussion Lists on Web Site Design and Development
- BabbleList
Geared to advance Web Design issues, and includes a lively exchange of information, resources, theories and practices of designers and developers. (Christopher Schmitt, Owner/Moderator) - CHI-Web Mailing List
A discussion list for the human aspects of the Web, including user-friendly Web design. Sponsored by SIG-HCI (ACM: Association for Computing Machinery; HCI: human-computer interaction). Surveys, CHI-Web Mailing List archives, more info available at the site. - HWG-Graphics
(HTML Writers Organization Graphics Discussion List). - HWG-HTML
(HTML Writers Organization HTML Discussion List). - thelist
Evolt.org's excellent discussion list to promote the exchange of ideas about web design and related issues. Like others listed here, this list covers front-end and back-end issues, from visual design and graphics to HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, MySQL, regular expressions, databases, shopping carts, and much more. Searchable archives at the site, too. - W3C World Wide Web Mailing Lists
Discussion lists include CSS (Web Style Sheets), PICS platform, accessibility guidelines, Amaya, DOM test suites, HTML and XHTML, MathML, SMIL, SVG, XSL, more. - WAHMs in Web Design
(from the Working at Home Moms Online Magazine, by Cheryl Demas). - Webdesign-L
Great list for issues related to Web design and programming. Covers front-end and back-end issues, from visual design and graphics to HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, MySQL, regular expressions, databases, shopping carts, and much more. Busy, popular list with many well known names in the industry. For newbies to experts. Available in individual posts or digest. (Heather Hesketh, Steve Champeon, list owners.) - Wise-Women
For Web designers, developers, and programmers. Great, friendly group of people and well-run list. Like Webdesign-L, this list covers front-end and back-end issues, from visual design and graphics to HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, MySQL, databases, shopping carts, and much more. Regular or digest versions available. Wise-women.org website is also a valuable resource (Dori Smith, list owner). - Women Designers Group
For women Web designers, developers, programmers and those interested. Great group of people, great list. Like Webdesign-L, Wise-Women, and others listed here, this list covers front-end and back-end issues, from visual design and graphics to HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, MySQL, regular expressions, databases, shopping carts, and much more. Regular or digest versions available.
Online Forums on Web Site Design and Development
- SitePoint Forums
A wide range of topics at this busy, popular forum covering Web site design, programming, hosting, managing your Web site, SitePoint community, a marketplace, and more. [Online forums via SitePoint.com.] - WAHM.com Message Boards: WAHMs in Web Design
WAHM (Work at Home Moms) provides an online forum topic for Web design issues. Busy, active forum. [Online forums via WAHM.com.] - WebDeveloper.com Forums
A wide range of topics on Web site design and development (accessibility, CSS, graphics, HTML, JavaScript, XML, Dreamweaver and FrontPage, multimedia), server-side development (ASP, Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, SQL), e-commerce, Web design business, and other topics. [Online Forums via WebDeveloper.com.]
