Collected Good Things

Design, the Web, the Principles, the Best Practices...

From Digital Web Magazine, a series of quick tutorials on the basics of design - all design, and web design - from Joshua David McClurg-Genevese http://www.digital-web.com/types/design_in_theory_and_practice/
Josiah Cole gives web designers a dope-slap upside the head with 19 Things Not to Do When Building a Web Site
SitePoint reviews the tools for WireFraming. If you skip WireFraming, your site design may wander into the swamp...glub, glub, glub.
Semantic Foundry discusses WireFrames, ones for really complex sites.
Smashing Magazine. They are a the Kings of Lists. Constantly updating; go there when you need brain caffeine. Here are some typical topics, and topical tipics:
Design View, by Andy Rutledge. You MUST go here. He has a huge archive of articles, each one a powerful statement on design.
Design Meltdown contains tutorials, definitions and TONS OF EXAMPLES of web design and production topics.
Viget Labs has a design blog (among others) that has great real-world tales of design.
Does your neato design lead to a successful User Experience? Whitney Hess and some things to make you go "hmmmm."
Semantics, especially HTML Semantics. If you don't know semantics...you don't know...well, you know...