Once upon a time, there was really no such thing as a set of design standards. The world wide web was fairly new, and the tools we had for design were seriously limited. In 1997, I became acquainted with a graphic designer named Moyra through a forum, who went on to launch her own modest boutique of free web graphics. She was innovating design techniques with the first consumer versions of Paint Shop Pro, and nothing else like it had been seen on the web quite like it. She became wildly popular, not just for her beautiful graphics, but because her interface concepts later on were truly unique.
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Sometimes you get bogged down in a design and need to hit a reset button. Maybe you just want to approach a design from a fresh perspective. This collection is a roundup of websites that caught my attention for the various ways they approached their design.
Many are Flash-based and integrate a stunning presentation into the design. Others are just wonderful for their color and layout characteristics. Whatever or wherever you are in your design process, these sites are sure to inspire.

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HTML5 is one of the most talked about topics right now among the design community. HTML5 supports many new features such as : cleaner markup, new semantic elements such as <header>, <nav>, new form objects, canvas element for drawing and much more. These features will make websites more interactive for the user and easier for the web designer to create. Rather than doing a round up post of HTML5 tutorial, we have gathered some very useful articles and resources about the HTML5 features and how it will benefit us.
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CSS is always the easiest method to improve websites design and functionality. Moreover, The next version of CSS (CSS3) will revolutionize the way websites works. Except Internet Explorer most of the modern browsers supports CSS3 features. Here we present to you 20 recent CSS & CSS3 tools and resources you need to be aware of as a web designer/developer.
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