Here's a popular graphic design related question that was closed then deleted from Stackoverflow: 

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58807/can-a-programmer-become-a-decent-graphic-designer>

Archived version:

<http://web.archive.org/web/20100813080556/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58807/can-a-programmer-become-a-decent-graphic-designer>

It's clearly offtopic for stackoverflow, but the top answer is very good quality and **on topic for the graphic design stack exchange** site (<http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com>).

That was a very useful question to link to for newbies struggling to grasp the basics, and there are a lot of links to that question that have now gone dead. It'd be great if it could be migrated to the design site.

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(there are also a lot of poor quality answers, but the GD.SE mods can probably clean those up)