Whenever I'm starting a project with a client, there's some resources that I always point them toward to in order to gain inspiration for their project. I'm also a daily visitor to these sites, as they're great for keeping fresh ideas ticking over in my head.

• Smashing Magazine - Indispensible web-design inspiration.
• Design Shack - Nice all round CSS gallery.
• Favourite Website Awards - Fantastic Flash design gallery.
• Folio Focus - Great portfolio reference.
• One Page Love - Single page website inspiration.

There's a lot of tools available which can help you to bring a project from concept to launch. Here's a selection of my favourite libraries, tools and publishing platforms which I use on a daily basis. I hope you find them as useful as I do!

• Wordpress - The best free publishing platform around.
• JQuery - My favourite Javascript framework makes life easy.
• EZSql - Brilliantly simple MySql abstraction layer.
• Graphic River - Affordable and useful stock graphics.
• Snipplr - Code snippets for many programming languages.