Whoa, I must have been on hiatus from the webdev world too long… Digital Web Magazine closed its doors back in March and I just found out. Even though it’s sad to see a quality site go, I suppose keeping up such a site without a steady source of revenue run by volunteers is a difficult proposition.  I really hope that AListApart doesn’t do the same.  These sites don’t offer in-depth coverage of any certain topic or the detail how-to of the latest trend; instead the articles tend to be generalized, with broad strokes, aimed to argue the finer points about web development and offer a broader perspective.  Quality writing in web development is hard to come by, as most websites simply offer up chunks of code without any consideration to best practices.  Most of the latest information is mired in discussion forums that is too difficult to decipher unless you’re actively involved in the thread.  (I recently tried to make sense of this forum but gave up half way.)  I suppose this is good for book selling…  except that books are not as user-friendly when it comes to programming.

Other sites I find helpful are evolt and sitepoint.   All these sites have too many awesome contributors who also run their own sites with tons of information, but with increasing amount of info, organization like this is sorely needed.