As a web developer/designer I really need to follow the works of other web designers and developers, and as their blogs these excellent professionals post about some of the cutting edge and most important side of web design and development and I always followed them and have made a lot of reading their blogs, so here are the top 5 web design related blogs I like to read.

Web Designer Wall
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

Why Web Designer Wall? As a designer, I often have a lot of ideas that flow in my mind; usually I draw them on my sketch pad and then paste on the wall. This is how the name was created — a wall of ideas.

Veerle’s Blog
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/

I’m a graphic/web designer living in Belgium. My personal journal is an online source for topics ranging from XHTML/CSS to graphic design tips. I began my career in 1992 as a freelance graphic designer under the name of Duoh!. The first 3 years were mainly filled with print orientated work such as logos, stationery and brochures.

Rubi Qube
http://rubiqube.com/blog/

Hello! My name is Adrian Diaconescu and I’m a 27 year old freelance web designer from Bucharest, Romania. I design clean, fresh websites and blogs and implement them using my open-source tool of choice: WordPress.

Cameron Moll
http://www.cameronmoll.com/

Authentic Boredom is the platitudinous web home of Cameron Moll.
Is it ‘Mall’ or ‘Mull’ you ask? It’s ‘Mall.’ The correct pronunciation, however, is actually ‘Mull,’ as the surname is Germanic. But for the love of Pete, please don’t pronounce it as ‘Mole.’

Andy Budd
http://www.andybudd.com/

I remember reading a story once about an octogenarian discussing her most prized possessions with a researcher. She shows the researcher an iron that’s been going for over 40 years and explains how she had to scrimp and save to buy the product and how it ended up out living even her husband. Quizzed on why she spent so much money on the iron she said “I’m too poor to buy cheap!”

If you wish to create your own WordPress theme either for your own blog or to share with the rest of the online world, it is not that hard, and they three videos will show you the right way to do it. In a step by step tutorial on how to Tweak, edit, design and code your own WordPress theme, and now with the ability to create your own theme, you could give your blog the extra thing you always wanted.

How To Tweak or Edit Your WordPress Theme

Complete Wordpress Theme Tutorial

Watch Me Design a WordPress Theme

Enjoy these videos and stay tuned for more

As a web developer/designer you need to follow all recent developments and new tricks there is, reading from the expertise from other fellow designers will enhcnae your abilities and add a lot of great tools to your arsenal, which will give you a good push in making your work more up to date.so here is a list of 6 great web design websites which will give you a head start and you can’t afford to miss out, I know I can’t.

A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com

A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices…ALA’s content is protected by copyright shared jointly by the magazine and its writers, but our source code is freely available to all. We also welcome translation.

Smashing Magazine
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for designers and Web developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development: clearly, precisely and regularly. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present.

CSS Globe
http://cssglobe.com/

CSSG is a community driven site dedicated to web standard run by web standards designer and developer Alen Grakalic…The site consists of two main sections: exclusive articles (mostly written by me) and community news sections…The most welcome news are those that are of the most interest to the community. Stuff like tutorials, good css related articles

NETTUTS
http://nettuts.com/

NETTUTS is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.

PSDTUTS
http://psdtuts.com/

PSDTUTS is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner…we hope that reading PSDTUTS will help our readers learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that they might not have seen before and help them maximize their creative potential.

Noupe
http://www.noupe.com/

NOUPE passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface.

Web designer Depot
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/

Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices.
We love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms. Our vision is to make WDD a great showcase for this passion and feed a worldwide audience of savvy designers eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community.

Here are three great videos I found online that will take all wordpress beginners in a step by step tutorial on how to choose, download, upload, install and activate new wordpress themes, gaining the power to give your wordpress theme the best look from thousands of available wordpress themes around the internet and gain more and more happy visitors. 

Uploading Wordpress Themes

How to Activate a New WordPress Theme

How to Install a Wordpress Theme

More videos about editing WordPress themes and creating your own theme will follow, so stay tuned.