Web developer resources

Decent sized set of pure CSS backgrounds presented in a great UI

Great site offering free textures of a very subtle nature.

Classy minimalist backgrounds in a great interface.

Create your own tileable background image by choosing colours, a canvas, and an image.

Simple process that results in an attractive free background

Beautiful open-source site with a wealth of icon fonts

Great collection of icons - the focus is on visual communication symbols rather than application icons

A search engine for icon images. Very effective and very fast.

A famous and arguably overused set of icons for applications or websites

Attractive, social colour theme generator from Adobe

A simple, functional generator

Handpicked fonts, free for commercial use

A large collection of open source fonts, provided as a free of charge service by the big G

Plenty of fonts, many of which are freeware or public domain

Interface looks a decade old, but still functional

Generate styles for sections of your site to easily choose things like drop shadow, background, border, and inner shadow

Duplicates the Photoshop layer style interface, so graphic designers shouldn't have any trouble finding their way around

Choose gradient options in a Photoshop-like way and this tool outputs the corresponding CSS for you

Generates CSS buttons, allowing the user to choose things like size, colours, curvature and so on

News for web designers and developers from a large editorial team based in Germany

Something of an institution in the web design world

Extensive coverage of coding, design, UX, and Wordpress related topics

Web design and development blog. News, tutorials, and the latest trends in web design

Web design, tutorials and modern design trends

Links, blog posts, videos and tools for the budding web.

Also features an extensive design gallery