Getting inspiration for new projects and layouts can be difficult. However, there are several high-quality sites dedicated to the graphics, code, colours, fonts that can make your website stand out from the crowd.

Smashing Magazine provides links to wordpress themes, web design tips and tricks and graphics.

PSDTuts is an excellent website rpoviding step-by-step tutorials on using photoshop. Tricks and tips for begineers and more advanced Photoshop users.

WuFoo Form templates and form-validation made-easy. Includes templates for accepting payments with PayPal and Google Checkout.

Weblog Tools Collection is a resource for finding high-quality Wordpress themes.

Webcreme quite literally showcases the cream-of-the-crop in web design.

Stylegala is another website that showcases high-quality web design. An excellent resource for finding inspiration.

CSS Mania is a showcase of cutting-edge CSS-compliant web design.

CSS Vault is another excellent CSS-compliant web site showcase.

CSS Play provides a whole-host of ready to use CSS scripts for navigation, CSS image maps and advanced opacity techniques for recent browsers.

A List Apart provide tutorials on many areas of web design, from basic right through to advanced techniques.  The site covers graphics, CSS, HTML, JavaScript techniques and typography.

One way to keep up-to-date with these sites is to subscribe to their RSS feeds, that way you’ll know when all the latest tutorials and articles are published.