Fill out your twitter feed and rss reader with some of the top creatives and thinkers from the www.  24ways is a yearly web developer advent calender. Each day providing an interesting and inspiring article. I’ve compiled a list of links to each authors blog and twitter. A great starting point for fledgeling web designers and those who want to find inspiration from highly regarded people in their field.

A

Rachel Andrew – Twitter & Blog
web developer and writer over at edgeofmyseat.com.

John Allsopp – Twitter & Blog
software engineer, speaker, writer, educator and surf lifesaver, with a long standing interest in CSS.

B

Gavin Bell – Twitter & Blog
social software designer.

Kimberly Blessing – Twitter & Blog
a computer scientist, a Web developer, a standards evangelist, a feminist, and a geek.

Paul Boag – Twitter & Blog
primary web strategist at Headscape and one of its three founders.

Mark Boulton – Twitter & Blog
years of experience in designing or redesigning a large range of outputs from websites to applications.

Andy Budd – Twitter & Blog
managing director of clearleft, renowned web developer and designer.

C

Andy Clarke – Twitter & Blog
contributor to the Web Standards Project  and  Invited Expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group.

Dan Cederholmes – Twitter & Blog
a recognized expert in the field of standards-based web design.

Simon Collison – Twitter & Blog
web designer/developer and author. Runs Erskine Design.

D – E

Mike Davies – No Twitter & Blog
a senior web developer for Yahoo Europe, based in London.

Dustin Diaz – Twitter & Blog
User Interface Engineer at Twitter who enjoys writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.

Natalie Downe – Twitter & Blog
experienced usability consultant and project manager, her first loves remain front-end development and usability engineering.

James Edwards – No Twitter & Blog
web-developer based in the UK, specialising in client-side programming, with a strong focus on accessibility.

F – G

Derek Featherstone – Twitter & Blog
a well-known speaker with a reputation for inspiring and exciting the audience with practical demonstrations.

Brian Fling – Twitter & Blog
entrepreneur, a designer, a mobile expert, speaker, author and idea guy.

Ian Forrester – Twitter & Blog
XML, Open Standards, The Commons and Data Portability advocate.

Patrick Griffiths – Twitter & No Blog
been doing the professional web developer thing since 1999.

H

Christian Heilmann – Twitter & Blog
International Developer Evangelist – working for the Yahoo Developer Network in the lovely town of London, England.

Michael Heilemann – Twitter & Blog
30-year-old Computer Game Developer and Interface Design Enthusiast.

Jon Hicks – Twitter & Blog
handles the new-fangled media projects: Interface design, icons, websites. Currently working full-time with Opera Software.

Molly E. Holzschlag – Twitter & Blog
a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author.

I – J

Shaun Inman – Twitter & Blog
successful designer and developer living and working out of Chattanooga.

Roger Johansson – No Twitter & Blog
Swedish web professional who has been working with the web and other interactive media since 1994.

K

Jeremy Keith – Twitter & Blog
an Irish web developer living and working in Brighton, England.

Peter-Paul Koch – Twitter & Blog
freelance front-end consultant, agent, and trainer.

Nate Koechley – Twitter & Blog
One of the first web developers at Yahoo!. Been instrumental in creating and defining the practice of Web Development and Frontend Engineering.

L

Stuart Langridge – Twitter & Blog
designer for a developer for a media firm in the UK.

Patrick H. Lauke – Twitter & Blog
known to rant and evangelise about accessible and usable web sites.

Marcus Lillington – Twitter & No Blog
Headscape’s business development director has experience in commercial, consulting and project management roles.

Ian Lloyd – Twitter & Blog
full time as a senior web developer for Nationwide Building Society.

M

Ethan Marcotte – Twitter & Blog
a web designer/developer living in Cambridge.

Drew McLellan – Twitter & Blog
has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub.

Ann McMeekin - Twitter & Blog
knitter, shoe obsessive and freelance web, design and accessibility consultant.

Eric Meyer – Twitter & Blog
has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML and CSS.

Cameron Moll – Twitter & Blog
designer, author, speaker, or any combination of the three.

N – P

Mark Norman-Francis – Twitter & Blog
a professional web developer from London.

Brian Oberkirch – Twitter & Blog
a marketing consultant focused on social media and product/service development.

Veerle Pieters – Twitter & Blog
graphic/web designer living in Belgium. CEO of Duoh! n.v.

R

Matt Riggott – Twitter & Blog
one part amateur photographer, one part programmer, and ravenous devourer of political news.

Dan Rubin – Twitter & Blog
graphic designer, web developer, musician and Apple enthusiast.

Gareth Rushgrove – Twitter & Blog
professional web developer, currently working mainly with Python and Django.

Richard Rutter – Twitter & Blog
production Director at Clearleft.

S

Jason Santa Maria – Twitter & Blog
graphic designer living in sunny Brooklyn.

Dave Shea – Twitter & Blog
a Vancouver local and a freelance designer.

Jonathan Snook – Twitter & Blog
creator of striking designs, impeccable markup and code, and forward-thinking ideas and applications.

Matthew Somerville – Twitter & Blog
lives in the UK, working from home planning, designing and programming websites.

Elliot Jay Stocks – Twitter & Blog
designer, an illustrator, a speaker, an author, and occasionally a musician.

Brian Suda – Twitter & Blog
master informatician… (your guess is as good as mine).

T – V

Jon Tan – Twitter & Blog
creative director at OmniTI and sometime writer and speaker in Bristol, UK.

Andrew Turner – Twitter & Blog
a neogeographer involved in helping build the geospatial web.

Tim Van Damme – Twitter & Blog
interface designer, based and raised in Belgium. Design interfaces as a freelancer at Made by Elephant.

W

Ben Ward – Twitter & Blog
works at the Yahoo Developer Network, admin and author at microformats.org.

Henriette Weber – Twitter & Blog
founder of Toothless Tiger where she acts as the social marketing rebel extraordinaire.

Meri Williams – Twitter (private) & Blog
an Information & Decision Solutions manager and web developer.

Simon Willison – Twitter & Blog
co-creator of the Django Web framework.

Y – Z

Kevin Yank – Twitter & Blog
technical director of sitepoint.com.

Jeffrey Zeldman – Twitter & Blog
was one of the first designers, bloggers, and independent publishers on the web, and one of the first web design teachers

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- Please recommend any designers, developers and creatives you follow in the comments below.
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