Resources

Design and Coding Resource Directories

Design Directory: An exhaustive list of design links covering everything from typography and logo design to visual art and web design.
Essential bookmarks For Web Designers And Web Devlopers: A huge list of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS navigation menus, CSS & HTML techniques, layouts, accessibility, usability, search engine optimization (SEO) etc.), which make the life of web developers easier. The list includes over 730 manually selected resources, is updated weekly.
Web Developer's Handbook: Develop websites and explore your imagination with the help of this massive list of resources that includes colour palettes and tools, search engine optimization (SEO), AJAX, Javascript, DOM, typography, RSS, content managament systems (CMS), blogging and much much more...
Web Design References: The University of Minnesota Duluth's Information Technology Systems & Services website hosts a well stocked list of resources.
Web Design Reference Guide: Network of sites that provice information, tools, and resources for internet-focused businesses and web developers, including WebmasterBase.com, eCommerceBase.com

Portfolio Exhibition (The Best of Portfolio Design): Showcasing talented illustrators, web designers, photographers and graphic designers. Portfolios that are made with flash and web standards.
Design Snack: A web design showcase that allows its members, not editors, to ultimately choose the website submissions that are showcased.
Screenspire: A no-embellishment, no-comments, no-technology-favored source for recent website-designs collected from various portals and handcrafted websites.
The Designer's Lunchbox: The designers' lunchbox, a global digital design portal. Updated weekly with a new issue, updated hourly with global design news.
Favourite Website Awards: The Favourite Website Awards (FWA) is an industry recognised website award program, established in England in 2000, showcasing websites who use cutting edge technology, together with inspirational ideas, that lead the way for future generations.

Stylegala: Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
CSS Zen Garden: The CSS Zen Garden is an influential World Wide Web development resource whose goal is to showcase what is possible with CSS-based design.
Light On Dark: Light on Dark attempts to showcase well designed & coded web sites with light text on a dark background, and serves as a portal to promote the techniques used in the development of those web sites.
Unmatched Style: Unmatched Style is a constantly growing community dedicated to acknowledging those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites using Cascading Style Sheets and web standards.
Style Crunch: StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery, you can find the best sites in the www, best design, best coded and what engine used.

One True Layout: Pure CSS-based layouts have come a long way but they still have shortcomings that fail to address certain design goals without compromising the true separation of content and presentation. This article shows how to go about creating what could be called the One True Layout.
208 Style Sheets Computer Technology Sites: 208 and counting websites listing every aspect of design and background information about (CSS) Cascading Style Sheets.
Sample CSS Page Layouts: A range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts - free to use and abuse as needed!
Free CSS Layouts And Templates: As a web-developer you don't have to re-invent the wheel all the time so here's a list of resources which offer free, gorgeous and valid CSS-based templates - usually with images and full layout structure, such as headers, navigation bars, content containers, sidebars and footers.
Download Free Web Design Templates: Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place.

Auto Selecting Navigation: A combined "Class" and "Id" technique that allows the page to automatically visually represent the currently selected tab.
CSS Navigation Techniques: A showcase of css based navigation menus, css tabs and css navigation techniques. The project demonstrates the beauty and the accessibility of CSS (Cascade Style Sheets) and its use for creating lightweight, easy-to-edit and beautiful navigation designs.
Experiments With Cascading Style Sheets: CSSplay deals with experimental CSS. Just CSS, no javascript or any other programming language has been used in any of these numerous demonstrations.
Sliding Doors of CSS: Douglas Bowman's sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that squash and stretch while delivering meaningful XHTML text. Have your cake and eat it, too!
CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions: 53 beautiful and user-friendly Navigation Menus and solutions web-designers came up with using basic CSS styling.

Kuler: Kuler is all about color: color for exploration, inspiration, experimentation and sharing.
Colour Lovers: COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
Colour Composer: An interactive web tool with which you can create a detailed web page colour scheme and generate the CSS and HTML code to be inserted into your web page.
Dulux paint colour range: Dulux paint colour range & advice about choosing paint colours.
Colour Theory: A list of colour theory and mixing tutorials.

iStockphoto: iStockphoto is the world's preeminent collection of member-generated royalty-free images, at the world's best prices.
Stock xChang: Browse a huge gallery containing over 250.000 quality stock photos by more than 25.000 photographers.
Stock Vault: Browse and search a photo gallery of over 7.000 royalty free, high resolution stock photos, templates and logos to use in your personal and educational design projects.
Stockxpert: Stockxpert is a royalty free stock photography community with the goal to provide customers with affordable stock imagery while offering a powerful tool to photographers and digital artists who would like to sell their work.
Punchstock: PunchStock supplies designers and creative professionals with a unique visual tool: a comprehensive collection of over 1 million rights-managed and royalty-free stock photos and illustrations from the world's top photographers and collections.

Dafont: Over 7,000 freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain fonts.
Great Fonts For Web 2.0: Fonts are an essential part of design - but there are thousands of fonts out there, so knowing which ones to use can be quite daunting. Here's a roundup of some fonts that have found popularity recently.
Fontleech: A great blog and resource all about free fonts and typefaces.
20 Best License Free Official Fonts: The top 20 best free quality fonts which are suitable for official, business and serious presentations.
Fontsmack: FontSmack is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts. sIFR fonts are Macromedia Flash files (SWFs) that you can easily drop into your site.