Useful web design tools:
Colour Schemer - tool to help compare colours and chose ones that compliment each other
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
Favicon designer - auto tool for designing and encoding the little pictures you get in front of web addresses in your browser.
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
Irfanview - one of the best art packages for resizing and compressing pictures - ideal for pictures you want to upload onto the web.
netWeather - useful tool you can add to blogs, websites and MySpace pages to display the weather forecast wherever you are.
http://netweather.accuweather.com/adcbin/netweather_v2/signup-page1.asp
Absolute Background Textures Archive - one of the best free texture sites on the web.
http://www.grsites.com/textures/
FileZilla - the best free FTP software - means you can manage your own website without the need for expensive software.