Designing web pages is a fascinating hobby. The following links have helped me pick up a few things.

• Bellsnwhistles.com: This site claims to have everything you need to build your web site -- and all for free.
• The Java Boutique: reviews, articles, tutorials, applet downloads.
• Web Style Guide from the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media: an elegant site where images are used only to illustrate content. Advice on site design, page design, graphics and multimedia. Not quite Strunk & White for the web, but along those lines.
• The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability: What are the top ten web design mistakes? How do you make effective use of style sheets? How do users read on the web? This bi-weekly column by Jacob Nielsen, a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer, gives the answers to such questions and many more.
• Web Page Design For Designers: Designer Joe Gillespie offers sound advice on effective web design and usability. He makes good use of layout, fonts and colors. A beautiful series of pages.
• Freelinks.com: Once you design and publish a web site, you must still tell everyone that it exists. This site helps you link your site to the top search engines -- all for free. It lists links to regional and specialty search engines as well as the biggies like Yahoo, Google and Alta Vista. It also features links to web site promotion tools and resources.