This is a nice tutorial on creating your own CAPTCHA control using the System.Drawing Namespace in VB.Net. Definitely worth the read if you ask me :)

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers. Thankfully, we were graded back then for having reusable code and proper OO methodology -- never for our aesthetics. But nowadays, one of the greatest assets a developer can have is a keen understanding of design.

Here is a list of the best color tools available for designers on the internet.

Slides from a presentation 'Destroy The Web 2.0 Look' at the Future of Web Design in New York.

For many web developers web design means lurking around the countless css galleries which feature "unique & well designed" websites. Their mantra is "Good artists copy; great artists steal" by Picasso. That's where the expertise ends for most. In these design magazines below you can find inspiration beyond websites on every design & illustration topic there is. Most importantly you can find lots of articles who explain the processes involved mastering and understanding design.

A second gallery of excellent minimalistic designs.

Studiowhiz is back.

Three completely free sets of Photoshop Brushes: Sparkle Stars, Nebulae And Planets. Many of them of high resolution.

Designed to view full-size photos and images inline without requiring a separate web page load, FancyZoom's raison d’être (French for "raisin-determination") is providing a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like it's a function of Safari itself.

Most design trends come unexpectedly, evolve over time, become pointless and finally disappear from the design landscape. This holds particularly for web design, which is — just as every other creative field — prone for over-hyping and over-usage of trends. Being used excessively (sometimes properly, but mostly without any reasonable purpose), trends lose their ability to communicate information, express something unique or innovative and consequently lose their visual appeal.