Web Design Resources is a simple list of useful websites and resources of great use to web designers and beginners alike.

CSS Showcases

CSS Zen Garden

An excellent website that allows designers to send in their own style sheets to change the appearance of the website.

CSS Drive

A gallery showcasing mainly web designers and company websites.

The Daily Slurp

A showcase of varying different websites, which is updated every day.

CSS Import

Very basic CSS gallery with a good list of websites.

CSS Remix

A fairly new website with an excellent showcase of websites. Possibly my favourite gallery.

CSS Mania

Large gallery of CSS websites.

CSS Vault

Extensive gallery of good CSS designs.

CSS Beauty

Another good gallery of CSS designs.

Stylegala

Monthly gallery of CSS designs as well as news and features on design and development.

Firefox Extensions

ScreenGrab

A very good extension, which allows you to take full-page screenshots within Firefox.

Web Developer Extension

This handy extension adds a toolbar to Firefox that allows you view various items about the page you are viewing.

ColorZilla

Allows you to pick any colour from the page you are viewing, as well as zoom in and measure the distance between two items.

Fonts and Typography

25 Best Free Quality Fonts

Article and links on some of the best free fonts around.

Five Simple Steps to Better Typography

A guide on how to improve the use of typography.

Font Guide

A list of fonts used on mac and windows.

Serif vs Sans-Serif

Comparison of Serif and Sans-Serif fonts for use on the Internet.

Design Matters: Fonts

Article on how to use fonts on screen and in print.

Da Font

Huge list of readily available fonts.

Typetester

Very useful website that allows you to test out various fonts and styles applied to them. Also generates the required CSS of your final selection.

Reading Material

A List Apart

Development magazine with a focus on design, content and accessibility.

456 Berea Street

Very useful resource for tutorials and articles on website design and development.

Design Principles

Good resource for articles on design, typography, accessibility, web standards and development.

htmldog

HTML, CSS tutorials, resources and articles.

Stopdesign

Articles on design and implementation methods as well as examples.

The Way Forward with Web Standards

Article on the effects of web standards on business and how they can improve websites.

Developing with Web Standards

Good article from 456 Berea Street's Roger Johansson, explaining how to develop websites while saving time and money.

Brainstorms and Raves: Semantics

Article on HTML, XHTML, semantics and structure.

Max Design

Good tutorials on lists, floats and selectors.

Royalty Free Images

Stock.Xchng

Large gallery of shared imagery from photographers

Morgue File

Free high resolution images for corporate or public use.

Design Packs

Collection of high quality image packs, free to use for commercial and personal web design.

Image*After

Free to use images and textures.

Yotophoto

Internet search engine for finding free-to-use photographs. Indexing over a quarter of a million images.

Software

Smart FTP

Free GUI FTP for easy drag and drop transfer of files to and from your desktop.

FileZilla

Another free and easy to use FTP program.

SciTE

Simple and effective text editor.

Notepad++

Another good free and customisable text editor, supporting many languages.

GIMP

Free image manipulation program for retouching, authoring and composition of images.

Inkscape

Open source scalable vector graphics editor.

Miscellaneous

famfamfam

A nice man called Mark James has created 1000 very good free to use icons.

Steal Some Buttons

A very large list of buttons you can steal.

OC Host Review

A very good website with user reviews and ratings on various hosting companies.

domCollapse

Very effective JavaScript that allows the expansion and collapse of selected elements. Used on this website.