One of the largest online tech communities is the world-wide phenomenon of web, graphic & media designers. This illustrative and overflowing group floods the web with portal communities that take 10 minutes to download, even with a broadband connection. This is a group so addicted to Flash and form that following function is virtually out of the question.
However, they are free with their links and if your design content can measure up, you can receive thousands of links in a matter of days from high quality, traffic-pushing sites. If visibility is your goal and your message is ready to be received by the hip, urban mod generation; you can hardly find better content to create.
I’ve created a short list of some of the biggest design portals in the business below – where possible, I’ve used their “catch phrases”, which help to illustrate the culture of the sites:
There are hundreds more. If you’ve got a site with a killer design that requires horizontal scrolling and has no visible navigation (or just a really clean, pretty design), try submitting to these folks – it can be quite rewarding in terms of traffic.
