Below are the top 5 websites that the web developer should look around in, participate in and study before making their new website.

1. http://www.smashingmagazine.com - A detailed blog full of CSS, showcases, fonts, graphics, tutorials and events. The fun doesnt stop there, it includes a toolbox, a ‘Best off’ section and articles are written in plenty of detail with lots of trackbacks, and comments from other authors.
2. http://www.iwebtool.com/ - This growing website is full of webmaster tools and includes some usefull services to help boost traffic to your website. This webmaster talk forum is adsense revenue which leaves you with a chance of getting revenue the more you contribute.
3. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ - An extremely large community forum which is an “ad revenue sharing” forum. With 474,409 threads at the time of writing, it is no wonder why this forum is a hotspot for developers.
4. http://www.sitepoint.com/ - With daily premium articles from known authors, Sitepoint is perhaps one of the best webmaster resources available. Offering books, kits, videos, blogs, contests, a marketplace and more its certainly a place to visit.
5. http://www.digg.com/ - You cant not mention a web2 site in this quick list. Digg is a brilliant UGC (User Generated Content) website which will allow you to drive potentially thousands of visitors to your website. Get some decent content, submit it to digg and expect a rush of new visitors.

Of course, this website is also a newly formed domain for developers and it would be appreciated if you visited and contributed to our community forum, with your feedback, questions or even if you would like to share a tip with us or help somebody else out. Thanks!