Original posting – http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/design/30-essential-tools-for-web-designers.html

For designers nothing can be more handy than effective and time saving tools supporting their creative process. Of cause dependent on the specific needs free web-based tools can significantly help you accomplish tasks such as color selecting, color palette, creating own and unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.

In this article tripwire magazine presents 30 essential Tools that hopefully will be useful for most Designers.

Original posting – http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/design/30-essential-tools-for-web-designers.html

http://speckyboy.com/2009/03/18/25-impressive-and-inspirational-dark-css-web-designs/

Stepping away from the relative safety of white/light background in web design can sometimes be quite challenging, even daunting. If it is designed properly, using a dark background, the effect can be very impressive. Here are 25 superb dark designs that prove web design can be beautiful in dark.

http://webdesignledger.com/resources/12-css-tools-and-tutorials-for-beautiful-web-typography

By Henry Jones
12 CSS Tools and Tutorials for Beautiful Web Typography

Achieving beautiful typography with CSS on the web is no easy feat, and there are many limitations to what can done with type on the web. However, there are generous people out there that have taken the time to build tools and write tutorials to help you overcome these limitations and create websites with beautiful typography.

Here are some that I find most useful: