As some of you know, I am currently employed as a website designer. Little does my employer know (until he reads this post probably) that I am much more of a programmer and my design skillz are majorly average. But, I've been learning and need a place to keep track of my stuff, so if you're into making websites then you may find this topic useful. You probably need to know a little bit first though to apply some of it.
Also I'll be coming back to this topic, this is just what I've got at the moment.
IE sucks, help me get it working
Yes you're right, IE does suck. However it is important to note that just because IE is the most popular browser at the moment, that does not mean you should design your sites in IE. You should always use a browser that is standards compliant, then hack IE to make it work. IE 9 however is standards compliant so this stuff applies to all browsers before IE9. A lot of web designers also consider IE6 not worth developing for considering its diminished popularity vs the time it takes to make things work in it.
IE Tester This allows you to test your website in all the versions of IE, pretty useful
CSS3 Pie Makes IE render CSS3 properties, for example rounded borders, box shadow, text shadow etc.
HTML5Shim This little javascript will make HTML5 elements work in IE. You know, ,
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etc.
Curing CSS3 Headaches - Tutorial Tutorial for getting CSS3 working in older browsers
Aesthetics
Makin' it look good
Kuler Helps you choose a color palette, work a look
Google Webfonts Fonts that you can use for your websites, super easy to install and an awesome resource
Font Squirrel Tons of free fonts that can be used in commercial projects
IDE
I don't know what that stands for.. but its the programs you type your code in. Bit of a lack of selection here..
NetBeans This is what I've been using recently, better for larger projects that involve PHP but you can do simple things in it too
Dreamweaver Has all the features you don't want but its a pretty cool IDE and has some things over netbeans
Tutorials
Well, since finding the Envato network I really haven't found a reason to go elsewhere for my tutorials
PSD Tuts Learn photoshop stuff
Webdesign Tuts Tutorials for webdesign
Tools
[*]Smush it
An amazing web app that reduces the filesize of images without reducing the quality