90+ Dev & Design Resources for Building Better Sites and Apps

90+ Dev & Design Resources for Building Better Sites and Apps

Whether you want to improve your existing skills or learn new ones, we've provided plenty of web design and development resources in the past year.

Here we recap the best posts that fell into this creative category. These include a wealth of tutorials, resources, galleries, interviews and more.

Have a read below for a look back at Mashable's Dev and Design resources from 2010, and be sure to keep coming back next year for more.

Mobile Development Resources

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Whatever mobile platform(s) you favor, we've got you covered.

8 Tools For Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website

HOW TO: Start Developing for iOS, Android or Windows Phone 7

HOW TO: Make Your Mobile Websites Act More Like Native Apps

HOW TO: Develop iPhone Apps With Staying Power

HOW TO: Optimize Your Mobile Site Across Multiple Platforms

5 Things to Consider When Designing Your Mobile App

Icon Resources

From minimal to festive, here's a roundup of great icon galleries.

10 Free and Fun Twitter Bird Icons for your Website

Top 10 Beautiful Minimalist Icon Sets

10 Beautiful Free Hand-Drawn Icon Sets

20 Free Social Media Icon Sets For a More Shareable Website

10 Free Holiday Icon Sets to Give Your Site a Wintery Makeover [GALLERY]

Resources for Web Developers

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PHP tips? Check. Apps for developers? Check. Online resources? Check.

5 Free Android Apps for Web Developers

10 Free Services to Monitor Your Site’s Uptime

5 Fantastic iPhone Apps for Web Developers

11 Outstanding Online Resources for Web Developers

11 Delicious TextMate Themes for Designers and Developers

4 Key Web Developer Community Resources

A Beginner’s Guide to Integrated Development Environments

5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try

7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques You Can Start Using Right Now

HOW TO: Implement Google Font API on Your Website

5 Tips for Developing a Global-Friendly Website

10 Popular Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

8 Experts Break Down the Pros and Cons of Coding With PHP

10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters

10 Intermediate and Advanced Tips from PHP Masters

10 Tools for Distributed Developer Teams

7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers

Apple-Related Resources

The iPad made an impact on dev and design this year. Here's why.

How the iPad Is Influencing Web Apps

6 New Mac Apps for Designers and Developers

10 Beautiful and Usable iPhone and iPad Interfaces

How the iPad Is Transforming Web Design

Photoshop Resources

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Photoshop is one of the primary tools in the digital designer's belt. We got you up and running with the imaging software in 2010.

8 Photoshop Tutorials for Retouching Your Profile Pic

9 Free Resources for Learning Photoshop

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started With Photoshop

10 Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

Career Resources

Whatever career path you're following in the online dev and design world, these articles can help.

5 Tips for Aspiring Web App Developers

HOW TO: Be a Hybrid Designer/Developer

6 Job Search Tips for Aspiring Programmers

HOW TO: Score a Web Design Job

15+ Great Ways to Find Web Design and Development Work

5 Fantastic Free Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio

Web Design

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We've offered a wealth of design-related resources this year -- dive in!

5 Simple Social Design Tips From the Masters

10 Essential Free E-Books for Web Designers

10 Tools for Getting Web Design Feedback

5 Quick Tips to Solicit Useful Design Feedback

Top 10 Resources for Design Inspiration

17 Fresh Web Tools for Working with Colors

5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011

Top 5 Web Font Design Trends to Follow

10 Free Web UI Kits and Resources for Designers

8 of the Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

4 Game-Changing Trends in Web App Design

11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused

The Future of Web Fonts

10 Free Wireframing Tools for Designers

40+ Web Design and Development Resources for Beginners

Interviews

From iconic designers to icon designers, we've talked to some rather interesting folk during the past 12 months.

Susan Kare: Interview With an Iconic Designer [GALLERY]

Twitter’s Creative Director Talks Design, UX and Inspiration

4 Winning Web Design Tips From Ryan Carson of Carsonified

The Origin of Twitter’s “Fail Whale”

CSS Inventor Talks About the Web’s Visual Future [VIDEO]

Essential Web Design Advice From a Wireframing Master [INTERVIEW]

The 10 Founding Fathers of the Web

Fun Resources

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It's not all work, work, work as we add a little fun with these light-hearted articles.

7 Captivating Works of Crowdsourced Art

Top 10 Accessories for Typography Nuts [PICS]

10 Captivating Time-Lapse Design Videos

6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Animations

21 Creative Blogger Bio Pages

35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages

HTML5 Resources

HTML5 was big news this year; here are four resources to get you caught up.

Top 5 Developer Questions About HTML5 Answered

5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website

HOW TO: Export Your Illustrator Images to HTML5 Canvas

HOW TO: Get Started with HTML5 Boilerplate

Resources for Bloggers

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WordPress, Tumblr and Blogger users will all find something to like in this list.

HOW TO: Make Your WordPress Blog More Like Tumblr

10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Application [PICS]

5 Hot Design Trends for Aspiring Bloggers

8 of the Best Premium WordPress Themes

10 Beautiful and Free WordPress 3.0-Ready Themes

10 Terrific New Tumblr Themes

11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress

Top 10 Ways to Tweak Your WordPress Theme

HOW TO: Add Facebook “Like” Buttons to Your WordPress Blog

10 Beautiful Free Blogger Templates

HOW TO: Secure Your WordPress Blog

7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress

14 Fantastic Free WordPress Themes

HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog

Social Resources

Finally, here's a social take on the dev and design world.

75+ Social Media Resources for Artists and Designers

9 Essential Social News and Bookmarking Sites for Designers

5 Better Ways to Read “Hacker News”

15 Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter

7 Hackathons Around the World and on the Web

10 Web Design Bloggers You Should Follow

20 Resources for Displaying Twitter Updates

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