1. Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is one of the most famous web design blogs. It has a massive volume of high-quality articles covering topics such as CSS, graphics, and typography. Founded in September 2006, this German blog has been delivering useful, reliable, and most importantly practical articles to web designers and developers.
On this web design blog, you have access to many freebies, including plugins and templates. This site is also highly regarded as a go-to place for anything related to web design. You can post questions and get answers from peers or veteran designers. There are also printed books and e-books in PDF, ePUB as well as for Kindle that you can buy, a newsletter you can subscribe to, and SmashingConf workshops and seminars you can attend online.