Jeremy Mitchell, an art director, web designer & filmmaker, is also the curator of a small network of website collections that showcase the best examples of *about pages*, *product web sites* and *agency sites*: The Best Network.

Each site is a visual gallery of real-world examples of web pages fitting the site theme and organized across a number of relevant (though not always so coherent) categories.

A great example of non-commercial content curation, done for the purpose of creating a useful public reference as well as a high-value piece of content boosting the credibility and reputation of the author.

Free to use.

Check them out now: 

• http://bestaboutpages.com/ 
• http://bestproductsites.com/ 
• http://bestagencysites.com/ 

Just yesterday I was looking for some of the less popular typefaces that could convey a more informal and personal communication style for a video presentation.

Sammy Maine, at Creative Bloq, has done an excellent curation job by gathering, selecting and introducing over 30 quality handwriting fonts that can be utilized in many different situations.

Useful visual list of handwriting style fonts. 7/10

Full review: http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/best-handwriting-fonts-12121527 

A valuable curated selection of fourteen different online resources which provide web design, UI and user onboarding inspiration, examples and best practices to their readers.

Kudos to Danny Schreiber on the Zapier blog for curating this excellent set of resources.

If you are into web design, web marketing or in learning rapidly from others what works on the web, you must bookmark this stuff and share it with your networks.

Very valuable. 8/10

Full article: https://zapier.com/blog/user-onboarding-user-interface-inspiration/ 

GoodUI offers a growing catalog of web design tips and UI ideas that can be immediately put to use. 

You can also subscribe to the newsletter, and receive new tips everytime new ones come out. 

Excellent tips, and suggestions. Easy to understand, well presented. Recommended.

Free to browse.

Check it out now: http://goodui.org/ 

GoodUI is a project by Jakub of Linowski Interaction Design

Niice is a new search engine that specializes in retrieving high-quality images from a curated set of design sites which include for now Behance, Illustration age, Designspiration, SiteInspire & Fonts In Use.

Niice can be used as a visual trigger to find interesting and inspiring visuals on just about any theme or topic. 

The curated nature of its sources and of the images allowed into the index guarantees that your focus area will always be filled by visually interesting ideas.

I tried a few simple searches, and was quite inspired by the quality of the results. I'd say truly inspiring.

http://www.niice.co/?search=rome 

http://www.niice.co/?search=brass 

http://www.niice.co/?search=tao 

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.niice.co/ 

Adobe has opened up an online academy for learning most anything from building mobile apps, to Photoshop, design, PowerPoint presentations and more.

There are already over 75 different courses available, and besides a few free Adobe introductory ones (Photoshop for beginners), all other courses are have a price tag ranging from $19 to $99 per course. You can pick and select courses you would like to take and save them in a wish list.

Each course provides a sneak preview, and includes multiple video modules on the selected topic.

Creativeblog reports: "With Adobe KnowHow you can also markup or add notes on the video as you're watching; making it even easier to master that new skill. You can also jump to cue points created by your annotations to review both your notes and the associated video content, so you'll be up to date all of the time."

Source: http://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/adobe-makes-tutorials-available-free-11135249 

Check it out now: https://www.adobeknowhow.com/ 

A pretty amazing one-page with scrolling parallax. If you are looking for inspiration or to discover things you have probably not seen yet on a web page, here is a great example.

http://www.fontwalk.de/ 

If you need to find out what font has been used in a specific ad, logo or creative display, here are three free tools that you can use to identify the original typeface.

MyFonts.com WhatTheFont and Whathefontis.com are two free web apps which allow you to upload a screenshot of the text that contains the font that you need to identify. Once the image is uploaded you simply need to help the software identify different characters by suggesting what letters are present in the original text.

At this point the service will suggest and display a number of typefaces that come closest to the character traits of the image you have submitted.

A third alternative, Identifont.com, allows you to search and find typefaces by searching them by name, style/look, author or symbols contained in it.

Three apps to keep in your creative designer toolkit.

• MyFonts.com WhatTheFont
• Whathefontis.com
• Identifont.com

Niice is a new highly specialized search engine, tapping into the heart of three first class design & inspiration sites: Dribbble, Designspiration and Behance.

If you are looking for design inspiration on just about anything, search with Niice and you'll likely find some wonderful references, if not a designer or illustrator to hire right now.

Excellent design resource.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.niice.co/

Pictacolous is a free color palette generator which allows you to easily find matching color schemes for any image you submit.

Courtesy of Mailchimp (the email newsletter distribution service) the new free service analyzes your image (any JPG, GIF or PNG not larger than 500K) for individual colors before tapping into Adobe Kuler and ColourLovers public collection of color palettes and suggesting the most relevant ones.

Essential. Simple. Very useful.

Free to use. Requires no registration.

Try it out now: http://www.pictaculous.com/

Turn your wireframes and designs into interactive prototypes that you can actually see, in the same way that your users will with Proto.io. See exactly how your app will work and look. Swipe, tap, rotate and examine your app inside out the same way your end user will.

Proto.io is also the first web protoyping tool that supports full feature animations and touch events.

Proto.io is an excellent platform to prototype your new app across all kinds of devices and screens from smartphones, to smart TV. refrigerators, car screens, etc.

Basic free account available.

Examples: http://proto.io/en/examples/

Features: http://proto.io/en/features/

Pricing: https://proto.io/en/signup/

Tutorials: http://docs.proto.io/tutorials/

Help: http://docs.proto.io/

Find out more: http://proto.io/

If you want to learn how to use images effectively inside your website or blog here is a truly excellent guide by Chistian Vasile on 1WD.

In the guide you will find rational and fact-supported advice on how to choose, place and test image use inside web-based content as well as lots of extremely relevant examples of effective image use online.

From the original article: "...if you manage to find the right pictures and insert them in the right places, they can do wonders for you, as they did for some others."

Well written. Informative. Resourceful. 8/10

Full guide: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/images-on-web-design-usability-guide/

Niice is a curated visual search engine providing design inspiration and the ability to easily clip, collect and organize your favorite designs into visual collections or mood boards.

To guarantee high quality visual results Niice taps some of the best curated design hubs available online: Behance, Designspiration, Fonts in Use and Brand New. 

Once you have queried Niice with a specific keyword, color, theme or style, collecting your favorite designs is as easy as clicking the plus button appearing on top of each image.

You can pick and choose in which collection your selected image will go and you can easily rearranging images in a mood board by simply dragging and dropping.

The basic service is free and it allows you to search, collect and organize up to 5 mood boards. Paid plans add the option to see no banners, to upload your own content, to have images backed up, and to export full image boards as a JPG image. 

If you are a web designer looking for inspiring visuals, ideas, logos and other creative work, Niice is a fantastic resource to use. 

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://niice.co/ 

Chrome plugin: http://n.iice.co/niiceplugin (to collect images from the web)

Book Land is an inspiring collection of 240+ product landing pages organized chronologically and by different tags/categories.

Given the amount of low quality collections, and the time that it takes to scour the web to find good, inspiring examples like these, Book Land is a useful and refreshing design inspiration gallery to save for future use.

Clean, easy to browse, inspirational.

Free to use. Updated weekly.

Check it out now: http://land-book.com/

Suggest new pages: http://land-book.com/suggest/

Feed RSS: http://land-book.com/feed/

Created by Dawid Liberadzki, Konrad Księżopolski and Marcin Wieprzkowicz.

SubtlePatterns is a curated collection of high quality background graphic tilable textured patterns.

Free to use, created, curated and maintained by Atle Mo.

Try it out now: http://subtlepatterns.com/ 

Photoshop plugin: http://plugin.subtlepatterns.com/ 

Submit your own pattern: http://subtlepatterns.com/submitpattern/ 

If you are looking for web design inspiration, news, tutorials and advice here is a good list of the top 15 web design blogs available out there.

Useful. Resourceful. 7/10

Full article: http://webrevisions.com/web-design/15-high-quality-web-design-blogs-of-all-time 

If you have not heard before about pageless design, this term refers to those websites made up of just one, long page providing all of the content needed to present a product, issue or company.

Nathan B Weller suggests in tis article eight great reasons to use pageless design.

My comment: There are many situations in which a pageless design can provide greater simplicity, more engagement and conversions, especially when elements of storytelling and covering multiple aspects of a topic are used.

Informative. Instructive. 8/10

Full article: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/design/8-reasons-why-pageless-design-is-the-future-of-the-web 

If you are looking for an effective tool to help the review of design drafts, providing the ability to add comments, suggestions, to highlight problems or to contribute new ideas, Concept.ly is definitely worth a try.

This new web app allows you to upload just about any type of image file that needs to be showcased, organize it with other related files and to share it with your selected teammates or customers.

Key additional features include:

- Compare multiple designs back to back

- Support for mobile devices

- Link different images and pages easily

- Track progress and statistics

- Full support for Dropbox, GDrive, Box.

P.S.: Free to use for a lifetime if you join the beta program now.

Try it out here: http://concept.ly/

Tour: http://concept.ly/features.html

Gridset is a commercial web-based app for web designers for making grids, designed and built by the team at Mark Boulton Design.

Gridset allows you to create grids for a number of different breakpoints. Each grid can be different – from ratio grids, to simple column grids. This set of grids is then compiled to one fully responsive CSS file for your site.

From the official site: "With responsive design forcing us into working and thinking differently about web layouts, the maths involved in designing for a plethora of different screen sizes started to take up valuable time and cause more than a few headaches.

We were hitting the same hurdles as everyone else. So when we looked to the web for a tool to help simplify the process and realised there wasn’t anything out there, we decided to make our own. And that’s how Gridset came to be."

Free 30-day trial

Features: https://gridsetapp.com/features/

Examples of grids: https://gridsetapp.com/#specimens

Pricing: https://gridsetapp.com/pricing/

FAQ: https://gridsetapp.com/faq/

Find out more: https://gridsetapp.com/