There are a number of sites which serve as discussion forums as well as treasures of information for the web users and websites owners.

Some of the best ones offering useful information on web designing are:

W3Schools: It offers free tutorials on topics like HTML, CSS and ASP among others. It contains example codes that you can edit yourself to get an instant training. It also offers you a great reference for a number of programming languages.

A List Apart: It is a web magazine that contains a large number of 'how to' articles. It covers a wide range of topics for the web designers and also offers practical solutions that can be used to make your website better.

Digital Web Magazine: It comes on a weekly basis and focuses on web designing. It contains excellent reviews of latest web design books as well as current trend analysis.

The Web Style Guide: It is a great e-book which offer best solutions for a number of different aspects of web designing. It is also very useful for general strategies.

Webmaster World: It contains the latest news related to websites, advertising services and search engines among others. It also contains expert comments and analysis from big website owners.

About Web Design: It covers the basics of web designing in a step-by-step manner.

Web Design Bits: It is another web designing tutorial that focus on programs like Photoshop and Flash. It is especially useful for learning the advanced effects of Photoshop.

Web Design Forums: It contains a number of forums on web designing. The users can discuss problems that they face while making their own websites.

The Site Wizard: It contains articles on web designing arranged categorically. It is useful to find information about specific programs.

SitePoint: This is a very good resource for web designing articles with focus on Online business. It contains a number of designing tricks that are often useful for all kinds of sites. This site also contains a great set of forums.

The W3C: This is the official standard body of the web. It contains official copies of specifications for languages like CSS and HTML. Also, it is possible to look at the groups which work on the future of web.