21 Most Promising Blogs of 2009

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you spent your Holidays with fun and happiness. Today I am writing the first post of year 2010, so I guess taking a look back at 2009 and picking the best will be nice!

So following are the Most Promising Blog of 2009. These are the blogs which provided quality contents all the time. If you are looking for the top articles or posts related to Design/Webdesign then I will recommend you to go through Brian’s 50+ Highest Ranked Posts in 2009 article.

Enjoy the following great blogs and tell us about your favorite one!

1. Smashing Magazine

2. CSS-Tricks

3. Abduzeedo

4. Six Revisions

5. PSDTUTS

6. Web Designer Depot

7. Design Informer

8. Fuel Your Creativity

9. Freelance Folder

10. WP Recipes

11. 1st Web Designer

12. The Design Cubicle

13. Woork Up

14. Blog.Spoongraphics

15. Web Design Ledger

16. NETTUTS

17. Noupe

18. Line25

19. Digging into Wordpress

20. Colorburned

21. InstantShift

Update:

22. Hongkiat

23. DesignM.ag

24. CatsWhoCode

25. Productive Dreams

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Written by Nikhil

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  1. Gopal Raju (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    Guess I am the first one to comment? Hongkiat is also a promising one…

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      thanks Gopal for the suggestion!
      Its on the list now.

  2. alex (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    Some great sites in this piece, but its worth mentioning DesignM.ag and WebM.ag are both great resources as is CatsWhoCode :)

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      Nice Alex,
      thanks for the additions.

  3. v-render (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    nice article .. you can mention productive dreams also .. its good experimenting and resourceful blog and its run by an indian .. which i feel proud of !

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      Thanks Veerendra for the excellent addition.
      Great to have PD on the list!

    • Gopal Raju (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      Thanks for recommending PD Virender!!

  4. Alex Flueras (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    Great list, there is a couple of them that I wasn’t aware of, so thanks for sharing.

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      You are most welcome Alex! :)

  5. Design Informer (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    These are all excellent sites that I have been visiting mostly everyday.

    By the way, thank you for including the Design Informer. It’s an honor to be included with the best and promising blogs. I really appreciate it.

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      You are welcome Jad!
      I like your blog very much and also the regular reader also.

  6. Tomas (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    Great list, how about http://webdesignfan.com ?

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      Ya, it would be great!

  7. Richie (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    nice list, sure lived up to the promise… waiting for the ones that will bloom in 2010

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      Truly, they are all great. I hope this list will be more long next time. :)

  8. Ryan.M (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

    Great list! I try to keep on top of these things but there were still a good handful of sites I didn’t know about here. Thanks!

    • Nikhil (Reply) on Sunday 3, 2010

      Thank you friend for appreciation! :)