Web Design Community News

April 14th, 2010 in Resource 21 Comments

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Where to Submit Your Web Design and Development News

One of the most popular lines from the 1989 film Field of Dreams is “If you build it, he will come.” A great quote from an excellent movie. Sadly, this quote does not hold true to that of web design. Building a website will not get you visitors and writing in a blog will not get you readers. You must advertise and promote your website accordingly. Today, with the help of social media, gaining publicity has become increasingly easier. There are however many outlets that are often quickly overlooked. One of these outlets being user submitted community news.

User submitted community news is one of the hidden gems within the web design and development community. Websites featuring community news allow users to submit their content and then have that content linked to if determined appropriate. In doing so, users are able to build links to their content and get it out in front of a larger audience that they would have not been able to reach otherwise. As a return, websites offering community news will continue to get traffic from users submitting their own content as well as from users looking for the latest and greatest articles.

Getting your content accepted on community news websites is neither easy nor guaranteed. Your content has to be original, of high quality, and beneficial to readers in order to be accepted. It is hard work and can take time before you see any results. When your content is accepted, however, the results can be significant. The exposure and boost in traffic will prove to be well worth the effort.

Non-Account Based

The following is a list of websites that offer web design and development user submitted community news without the need of an account. Simply enough, all you need to do to submit your content is complete a quick and easy contact form. The websites are listed in order of page rank (highest to lowest) as well as alphabetized.

Website	Alexa Rank	Compete Rank	Page Rank
CSS Drive	8,920	29,799	9
CSS Leak	30,753	138,138	6
DesignM.ag	7,502	12,700	6
Designrfix	16,657	37,978	6
Dezinerfolio	13,869	39,250	6
Fuel Your Creativity	25,887	43,214	6
InstantShift	6,076	10,569	6
MyInkBlog	24,032	53,307	6
10Steps.SG	18,284	53,672	5
Brush King	27,893	81,362	5
Build Internet!	10,076	22,483	5
Cheth Studios	29,359	49,502	5
Colorburned Creative	23,610	57,762	5
DesignDazzling	54,648	498,143	5
The Design Mag	80,041	125,853	5
Desizn Tech	30,542	75,691	5
KnowTeBook	43,522	94,043	5
PSDFan	21,140	51,816	5
PSDVibe	57,903	166,870	5
PV.M Garage	21,946	56,003	5
Reencoded	26,774	39,199	5
Script & Style	24,358	56,854	5
Tripwire Magazine	11,065	2,071	5
Tutorial Outpost	55,780	78,747	5
UX Booth	24,513	40,187	5
WebTreats Etc.	9,408	20,365	5
Admix Web	56,440	431,119	4
CSS Brigit	172,476	1,959,538	4
CSSStyle.Me	75,390	0	4
Design Newz	30,752	80,423	4
Design Your Way	36,103	51,833	4
DivitoDesign	72,534	106,974	4
DevSnippets	17,495	39,766	4
Fuel Your Apps	410,546	684,145	4
Fuel Your Blogging	105,471	140,785	4
Fuel Your Coding	122,552	166,523	4
Fuel Your Illustration	1,089,873	2,030,334	4
Fuel Your Interface	157,021	144,755	4
Fuel Your Photography	430,180	1,253,664	4
Fuel Your Writing	428,865	252,005	4
Graphic Rating	111,414	226,851	4
LoonDesign	40,696	143,277	4
The Pro Designer	105,884	212,657	4
PSD Learning	66,391	178,973	4
Sharebrain	47,636	94,197	4
Tutorials Palace	115,889	804,563	4
Vagrant Radio	176,761	294,320	4
Visual Blast	18,966	42,048	4
Web and Designers	84,276	288,447	4
Webdesign-ne.ws	30,059	126,163	4
WhoFreelance	102,444	520,848	4
WordPress Arena	48,743	110,556	4
BeCreative Magazine	316,174	264,628	3
CrazyLeaf Design	13,180	32,483	3
Design Jojo	238,084	489,634	3
Espreson	164,201	347,109	3
favSHARE	98,872	372,816	3
Freelance Folder	21,121	18,747	3
Fuel Your Branding	532,595	638,561	3
Fuel Your Motionography	2,739,998	0	3
Graphic Mania	16,431	15,769	3
Hongkiat	2,393	3,308	3
Online-Photoshop Tutorials	186,291	303,042	3
Psdeluxe	26,768	71,103	3
QNT	110,214	493,379	3
reADactor	143,388	221,570	3
Scarletbits	134,263	752,144	3
Speckyboy	4,454	8,116	3
Top Roundups	63,240	849,598	3
Tutorio	27,104	30,591	3
Bloground	266,078	342,714	2
The Design Buzz	468,778	0	2
Design Shards	98,111	672,764	2
Looks Good Design Magazine	183,757	1,362,826	2
Pixelactic	218,742	975,720	2
Creative Urbia	253,665	0	1
Web Development Codex	222,595	2,085,833	1

Last updated April 14, 2010

Account Based

The following is a list of websites that require an account in order to submit your content. Many of these websites also cover a large variety of topics rather than strictly web design and development related news. While the range of topics may be larger than you would prefer the out reach and pay off can often be larger as well. As with the non-account based list, these websites are listed in order of page rank (highest to lowest) as well as alphabetized.

Website	Alexa Rank	Compete Rank	Page Rank
Delicious	342	1,396	8
Digg	102	20	8
Mixx	748	2,833	8
Reddit	309	262	8
Stumble Upon	204	287	8
Technorati	900	1,186	8
Hacker News	3,472	8,166	7
CSS Creme	21,264	69,198	6
Design Bump	10,121	15,955	6
DZone	2,497	6,575	6
Sphinn	5,961	7,529	6
Blog Engage	12,141	56,575	5
Cypher Box	67,360	394,375	5
Design Float	7,425	51,056	5
Design:Related	44,086	58,330	5
FAQ Pal	20,912	131,233	5
Indeziner	73,253	186,073	5
Tweako	29,580	137,323	5
Undrln	236,375	388,221	5
Abduzeedo	4,042	7,804	4
Blogger Den	69,786	243,879	4
CSS Globe	8,228	24,566	4
Inspired News	158,667	312,056	4
Queness	7,393	24,739	4
The Web Blend	19,514	35,632	4
Design Mess	143,895	203,686	3
Developersniche	403,106	2,090,785	3
Joyoge	114,865	932,901	3
Kreative News	159,508	339,182	3
Pixel Groovy	172,648	299,582	3
Serve Fault	401,729	0	3
Talking Web	1,789,591	0	3
WordTaps	131,829	510,082	3
zaBox	24,685	221,361	3
WebDev5	345,549	0	1
DesignDazzling News	54,648	498,143	Unranked
Pixel Element	86,000	87,416	Unranked

Last updated April 14, 2010

Download Bookmarks

Download all of the websites, both non-account and account based, listed above in one simple HTML bookmark file. The bookmarks may then be imported into your web browser of choice.

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Was Any Website Missed?

There are dozens upon dozens of websites featuring community news, did you notice any that were left out? Particularly, was any website specific to web design and development left out? Please leave your contributions in the comments below.

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Shay Howe

Shay Howe is the man behind letscounthedays. He works as a professional web and user experience designer with a love for creating all that is interactive. Keep up with him on LinkedIn and feel free to follow him on Twitter.

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21. Adham Dannaway on December 19th, 2010 at 1:27 am

Great list, but you left out http://www.cre8ivecommando.com/submit-web-design-article/ (non-account based)

20. Mufti on September 14th, 2010 at 7:39 pm

Thanks for including WebDev5

19. Ivan M. on August 16th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

Thanks for including Visual-Blast Magazine in the list.
The correct url for submitting articles is http://www.visual-blast.com/community-links/ or just home page http://www.visual-blast.com/ as there is submit form at the right sidebar on every page

Thanks!

18. Litmus Design & Branding studio on June 24th, 2010 at 5:56 am

Hi,
It’s great list of collection for website design and Development which help me to follow up my work on those websites. I loved to bookmark your page as, informative resources under one roof. It seems to be an amazing for me. Thanks for sharing valuable gift to me and for everybody else too.

17. Andrew on April 28th, 2010 at 4:02 am

This is really great list. I will definitely submit my all posts to these websites. I will also recommend you to add http://www.bestdesigntuts.com in this list. You do not need to login there to submit design development news.

16. Paweł P. on April 17th, 2010 at 3:54 am

@Shay – very good list, in one place. Thank you!

15. Jordan Walker on April 16th, 2010 at 6:20 am

Wonderful list of sites to submit information to.

14. designfreek on April 16th, 2010 at 3:17 am

oops you missed webdeveloperjuice.com . Anyways nice list

13. PixelCrayons on April 16th, 2010 at 12:51 am

Thanks for the collection. It is always nice to know about some good places to submit the web design
news

12. Rakesh on April 15th, 2010 at 9:06 pm

Really nice roundup. I have noticed some new. You can also include tutorialrialfeed.blogspot.com in this list.

Cheers!!!

11. designfollow on April 15th, 2010 at 4:01 pm

thank you for the great websites.

10. Matthew Heidenreich on April 15th, 2010 at 2:49 pm

this is a great list. I use a lot of these already, but I particularly enjoy how you separated them out by needing an account and not needing one. Thanks!

9. joyoge bookmark on April 15th, 2010 at 1:27 pm

Excellent list, thanks for including joyoge.com

8. Adal Design on April 15th, 2010 at 9:43 am

Awesome list! That’s some hard work…
Time for me to link to this post

7. yadirosadi on April 15th, 2010 at 6:23 am

Hi Shay ! thanks for this useful list ! I have one site to promote web news and mobile news that is http://nestdev.com. maybe you may also add it to your list

6. Jason on April 15th, 2010 at 3:30 am

Hi Shay,

Thanks for including VagrantRadio. This is a good list to get your articles out there.

5. skyje on April 15th, 2010 at 2:29 am

Thanks for list, You can add my blog to list please: http://skyje.com/submit-news/

4. wparena on April 14th, 2010 at 10:48 pm

Its really great you have compiled the list and arranged them according to their rank, this is giving me inspiration and motivating me to do more hard work to come up at top of this list… wish me best of luck

3. Teylor Feliz on April 14th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Very good and very complete list.

Thanks for adding Admix Web to the list!

2. FAQPAL on April 14th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

Excellent list, thanks for including FAQPAL in such a fantastic list of resources.

1. Louis Gubitosi on April 14th, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Thanks for adding TheWebBlend! This is a great list and very organized… also a good idea to add the downloadable Community News Bookmarks. Keep up the good work.

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