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I love this time of year when my favorite websites post advent calendars for people who work on the web. It’s like Christmas comes early with all the tips and resources!

If you missed it earlier this week, .netMagazine published eight advent calendars for web designers and developers, leading off with the well-known 24ways site and including UXMas, a new advent calendar for user experience professionals.

Here’s a few more web-focused advent calendars you might enjoy:

Online Marketing Advent Calendar

The Online Marketing Advent Calendar shares a digital marketing tip each day, focusing on SEO and content strategy.

Systems Administration Advent Calendar

With tips and resources written by fellow sysadmins, the Systems Administration Advent Calendar has been publishing their calendar since 2008.

It’s a Shape Christmas

For illustrators, the It’s a Shape Christmas interactive advent calendar features 25 downloadable shapes from illustrators around the world.

MDN Calendar

The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Calendar offers a puzzle-interface for demos and to learn about new resources.

WebKrauts Advent Calendar 2012

Though written in German, it’s easy to use Google Translate on the WebKrauts Advent Calendar 2012 which features web topics including CSS, wireframes, SASS, tools, and mobile web.

Since I’m involved with many web, social media and usability groups in the area, I often get asked about upcoming events. I’ve made a habit of announcing events at our Refresh Detroit meetings. We don’t have a calendar in our area that tracks all events (yes, Nick I’m giving serious thought to creating one.

I created a list of June events that you may want to attend. It’s a mix of the areas I’m interested in and many of the events are free. If you know of an event you would like added, please contact me.

June 1, 2024: D-New Tech Meetup; Detroit, Michigan; Compuware

June 6, 2024: Mobile Monday Ann Arbor; App Promotion - Great, You Built It, Now What?; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ann Arbor SPARK

June 7, 2024: Joomla! Detroit User Group; Detroit, Michigan; Quicken Loans

June 8, 2024: Social Media Club Detroit; Pleasant Ridge, Michigan; ePrize

June 10, 2024: Small Business Tools Summit 2011; Northville, Michigan; Hampton Inn

June 13, 2024: Mobile Monday Detroit; Android Software Development; Detroit, Michigan; Compuware

June 13, 2024: Ann Arbor Adobe User Group; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ann Arbor SPARK

June 14, 2024: Michigan Usability Professionals’ Association; Pioneering the Agile UX Frontier; Ann Arbor, Michigan; ProQuest

June 16, 2024: Detroitnet.org; Happy Hour; Utica, Michigan; Red Ox Tavern

June 22, 2023: Michigan Flex User Group; Mobile Workflow with Adobe Evangelist Ryan Stewart; SRT Solutions

June 30, 2023: Social Media Day Detroit 2011; Detroit, Michigan; MotorCity Casino Hotel’s Sound Board

Deborah Edwards-Onoro is a group leader of Refresh Detroit. She owns Lireo Designs, a web development company, is an officer of the Michigan Usability Professionals’ Association and host of Plymouth Tweetea. You can find her tweeting about web design, user experience, accessibility and higher education @redcrew.