Besides CSS and DHTML, there are a few basic tools to do stuff:
Guiding Principles
- Small Screens, Big Lessons - making the best of mobile browsers
- EyeTrack III - page layout and usability
- Economist Style Guide
- Web Design Patterns (also GUI design)
- Using Fitts' Law on Links
Resources
- Automatic Magazine Layout - great way to manage images.
- oswd - free design layouts.
- Stock Exchange - Stock photos
- Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla (including notes regarding JavaScript and CSS variations).
- I Like Your Colors - color scheme extractor
- ColorCell - genetic color scheme generation
- Soxiam - what this site might have looked like if DokuWiki was available years ago. Nice design, Lots of info.
- A List Apart - So obvious I never bothered to add it.
- Quirks Mode (neat reference)
- Python-based HTML diff script
- Working with Fonts
- Color Scheme Tools: 1, 2
- PNG nature images with transparency and under a Creative Commons license.
- Antique US Posters
- sIFR - Flash replacement of page fonts.