> SitePoint has some excellent articles, > and a thriving forum community as well. agreed, the sitepoint forums are excellent (hope you get the columnist spot, simon) other good database forums: http://dbforums.com/ http://sqlteam.com/ another great forum site for all things technical: http://tek-tips.com/ four superb web development blogs http://simon.incutio.com/ http://www.saila.com/columns/lcky/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/ http://meryl.net/blog/index.php a world-class design magazine: http://digital-web.com/ another web developer site: http://www.webreference.com/ and finally, i suppose somebody oughta mention webmonkey http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html rudy disclaimers: - unbeknownst to me, sitepoint members voted me database guru of the year - i'm tech editor at digital-web