Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in April 2008.

All images can be clicked and lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken.

Best designs and Tutorials of April 2008

UPDATE: And now it’s back. Thanks to Mash readers lubos, Philip, et al. for spotting the reboot!

Web video fans, we have some news to share, and you may not take it so kindly. YouTube is down. Yes, the copyright-infringing clips and the homages and assaults on the now infamous Miley Cyrus housed within Google’s all-powerful meme machine are evidently inaccessible.

You may panic.

First highlighted by Allen Stern at CenterNetworks, the outage seems to have stretched the globe, with reports from people spanning the US, the UK, Estonia, and places elsewhere. A few simple requests by yours truly for YouTube clips via Google Search this morning return links to unresponsive pages. (The Australian site is down too, by the way.)

Not good, not good. Maintenance gone wrong, is it? Who’s to say? Google’s not talking, neither on the company blog or, more specifically, on the official Youtube Blog. (Which is also down.) And heck, why would they? Only if this crash doesn’t get cleaned up in reasonably short order (what’s the metric for that, anyway?) will Sergey and Larry and Chad and Steve come out with a were-so-sorry and some sort of technological excuse. All we know is that YouTube devotees are likely none too happy with the cold-turkey cutoff.

Right now, it’s likely best to share some alternatives to the pixelated archives of GoogTube. Alright, alright, think, think. There’s Vimeo, Veoh, iTunes Podcasts. Yahoo Video is another. DailyMotion is a good choice. The Onion News Network, too. Those come immediately to mind. Give those a go.

Or you can put this Current TV clip of Mashable bossman Pete Cashmore on repeat. A great choice, actually, regardless of YouTube’s vital stats.

Let us know how your efforts to get into YouTube

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