John Chow is best known for showing the power of blogging by turning his blog into a case study to prove that you can make money by blogging. John took his blog from zero to making $40,000 per month in just two years. Tens of thousands of people read the John Chow dot Com everyday to find the latest ways to make money by blogging. That, and they want to find out what he had for dinner.

Why it’s in the Showcase: John serves as the quintessential example of the financial power of blogging and has made it his job and his hobby to tell others just how to make the most of blogging.

NETTUTS is an extremely popular site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills, and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. The site covers HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.

Free and useful online resources for designers and developers.

The Wufoo Blog is the official online publication written by the developers of Wufoo about their online form builder, form-related technologies, and whatever else may fit their fancy—like robots.

Particletree is the beginning of something. This place, this collection of knowledge, is a gathering of forces, a sharpening of skills. We believe both web applications and learning about how to create web applications can always be better. Because we know how hard it is to find information on the web that’s both valuable and lucid, we’re going to do our part to create and showcase ideas and resources that exemplify both.

Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for designers and Web developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development: clearly, precisely and regularly. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. That’s what makes us different. We smash you with the information that makes your life easier. Really.

Why Smashing Magazine? Well, why not? We smash our readers with information that is useful to them, even if they haven’t realized it yet.

SitePoint is a fast growing online media company and information provider targeting the Web professional market, specifically Web Developers and Designers. The company has five major revenue streams: advertising and sponsorship, content-based products both online and in retail, software, and more recently streaming video subscriptions and classified listings.