A compilation post with the best posts of 2008 was inevitable. Below you’ll find more than 2008 tips, tricks, icons, tutorials, inspirations and more design stuff. For beginners and advanced designers. Also make sure you check out the other posts on these great blogs.

So for your and my own reference here are the best posts for designers this year I’ve came across and which are worth (re)reading.

Tutorials (562)

30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources
25 Ways to Spice Up Blog Post Photos
50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners
31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials
22 + 50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II
41 + 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II
40 Cool Abstract and Background Photoshop Tutorials
100+ best sites to find tutorials!
80 of the Best Vector and Illustrator Free Resources

Icons (150)

110+ Free RSS Icons To Show Off Your RSS Feed
40+ Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs [Photoshop Tutorials]

Inspiration (638)

32 Invaluable Sites for Web Design Inspiration
40+ Beautiful Hand-Drawn Websites
Typographic Madness: 30 Brilliant Piece of Work
40 Creative + 50 Excellent + 100 funny and unusual + 36 cool + 49 Nice And Creative Error 404 Pages
33 New Design Blogs with Great Content & Resources
37 Ways to Design the Comments Form
30 Must See + 30 More Must See Comment Designs for Blog Designers
31 Creative Examples Of Mascots To Grab Your Attention
70 beautiful websites with a large background
30 creative custom wordpress logins

Resources (720)

20 Creative and Inspiring Free Design Magazines
20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers
30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection
208 Retro Photoshop Patterns
52 Vector Landscapes, 53 Vector Characters
27 + 36 + 36 Beautiful Business Card designs
25+ Sites that Use Typography As The Only Design Element
Promote Your Blog Posts: 12 Nice Designs and Techniques
Top 25 Web Design Blogs
100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design
40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008
11 Sites To Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself
25 Website Designs To Draw Inspiration From

Missing any great posts that should be added to this list? Leave a link with your comment and complete the list!

Last in the series of Best post for Designers, Developers and Bloggers. A collection of more than 1600 useful tips, tricks and advices from (pro) bloggers for newbies and pro bloggers posted in 2008. From getting started to getting (more) traffic and from getting (more) subscribers to actually making money with your blog.
A huge reference if you need just that little push in the right direction.

General Blogging Tips (733)

30 Blogging Tips to Screw Up
10 Characteristics of a Successful Blogger
10 Ways to Brand Your Blog or Website Efficiently
18 Simple Tweaks To Get More Clicks From Your Organic Rankings
9 Things That Drive a Blogger Crazy
5 Blogging Goals Worth Chasing After
8 Addictive Habits of Bloggers
16 Important but Potentially Distracting Blogging Tasks
20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider
Social media blog post ideas for desparate people (82)
22 Ultra Inspiring Blogs About Creativity and Idea Generation
40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content
Stop Planning: 50 Ways to Improve Your Finances Today
22 Essential Habits Towards Blogging Success
Top 100 Blogging Tips for Bloggers – Bloggers Guide
Sensational List Of 25 The Best Design Worldwide Forums
100+ WordPress Video Tutorials, from Basic to Advanced
The Top 50 Marketing Blogs To Watch In 2008
30 Web Trends for 2009
50+ Must Read Web Design for ROI, Usability and SEO Articles
42+ Resources for Bloggers
Twenty-eight ways to be a better designer
10 Tips to avoid designer’s block
16 tips to improve as a graphic designer

Subscribers, Success and Failure (267)

Top 10 tips to make your own web app projects
How to Fail: 25 Secrets Learned through Failure

10 Innovative Blog Business Models
10 Signs That Your Blog Is On The Right Track
50 Ways to Take Your Blog to the Next Level
Top 100 Reasons Why Blogs Fail – Blogging Mistakes
12 Tips To Grow the Subscriber Base on Your Second Blog
50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

Money Making Tips (53)

28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website
25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog
16 Sponsored Review Programs Pay You For Your Blog Posts

Promotion and Traffic (572)

Promote your blog: 250+ links to get free backlinks
41 websites to promote your design articles and resources
14 Tips To Drive Traffic To Your Blog
11 Blog Directories and Communities to Boost Your Blog’s Traffic and Popularity
SEO Optimizing Tips: 30 + 30 + 25 + 30 + 33 + 30 + 78

The second in series of best posts of 2008 for designers, developers and bloggers. This second post contains a collection of more than 2008 tips, tricks, scripts, examples and tools for developers.
Whether you’re a beginner or pro, you could use some of these posts for a reference someday.

Tools & Web Apps (463)

• 13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You
• 14 free tools that reveal why people abandon your website
• 40+ CSS Generators, Creators, and Makers
• 74 Great Web Apps for Web Designers we have forgotten about
• 50-Plus Tips and Resources to Improve Your Site’s Speed and Performance
• 15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity
• 11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons That Can Replace Standalone Applications
• 10 Free Photo Managing Software You Should At Least Know
• 15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For
• 15 Must-Have Bookmarklets For Web Designers And Developers
• 20 Great PHP frameworks for developers
• 66 Links To Learn The Webdesign Basics
• Web Development Toolbox: 120+ New Tools for Web Development

Scripts, Tweaks and Hacks (605)

• The Top 40 Free Ajax & Javascript Code for Web Designers
• 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have
• Top 10 Tutorials for Converting PSDs to HTML/CSS
• 30+ Tooltips Scripts With JavaScript, Ajax & CSS
• 50+ Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts
• 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks and 30+ More
• 30+ Eye-Opening Web Development Screencasts
• 19 CSS Menu Tutorials to Spice Up Your Web Designs
• 34+ free HTML newsletter templates for startups
• 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials
• 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools
• 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques
• 63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats
• The Best (19) Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers (From CSS, Ajax, Perl, Vbscript…)
• 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress
• 20 Amazing Javascript Prototype Scripts, Elements, Widgets, Classes..
• 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI
• 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
• 35 Easy to use Free Ajax/Javascript Navigation Solutions
• Top 10 CSS buttons tutorial list
• 10 Free Chart Scripts

Tips (208)

• 10 Principles of the PHP Masters
• 6 Easy Ways to Improve Your HTML Emails
• 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code
• 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
• 10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming
• 10 Optimization Tips
• 10 SEO elements all websites should have
• 10 Web App Tips From 8 Inspirational Speakers
• 7 ways to write beautiful code
• 10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks
• 15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned
• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1 and Part 2

Sources (441)

• 20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design
• 53 Steps to follow if you want to become Freelance Web Designer/Developer (60+ Resources)
• A study in Ajax Web trends. What are the best Free Ajax Resources? (70 of the Best Ajax Resources)
• 155 WordPress Resources, Tutorials, Plugins, Themes, AJAX, Podcasting…WP Monster List
• 41 of the Best MooTools Ajax Example Downloads
• 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…)
• 37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces

Generators (63)

• 25 Color Palette Generating Resources for Web Designing!
• 13 Free Online Tools That Helps You To Create And Host Your Website
• 25 Web 2.0 Generators

Plugins and Themes (235)

• 10 Best Plugins To Get More Comments
• The top 20 plugins to transform WordPress in a CMS
• 10 plugins you should be using in your WordPress theme or blog
• 10 WordPress Plugins to Add Ratings and Polls to your blog
• Top 30 WordPress Plugins that are actually useful!
• 130 WordPress Plugins You Could Ever Need: The Best Of : Part 1 and Part 2
• 18 WordPress Plugins to add Professionalism to your Blog
• 7 WordPress Themes To Create Your Own CSS Gallery