I am continuously looking on the web for ideas, inspiration and code snippets for use on my site and one of the best resources I have found is CSS-tricks:
Source: http://css-tricks.com
This website is a cornucopia of jQuery, CSS and HTML effects and code that can vastly improve the look, feel and functionality of your site. There is a very extensive blog library where users submit effects and ideas they have learnt and written and explain how they work and I have found it an invaluable resource in my website building:
Source: http://css-tricks.com/archives/
It has served me well remembering this site and few others that I know to be reliable because a lot of the time when looking for code snippets online and techniques people will just write what works for them which can be very specific and personal to their machine and their browser/pixel density. This website gives you code snippets that are professional but also explain every aspect of the code so you can understand it and change it to suit your design. It promotes learning the code and almost writing the majority of it yourself instead of merely copying and pasting without a full understanding of what it is doing.
Other sites achieve the same goal of reliability and sophistication by opening their posts up to comments and rating systems. Someone will ask a question and web designers from all around the world can answer it. They can be marked by other users and essentially voted up and down. This means the best answer rises to the top and then people can improve again upon that. That is also a good, reliable method for ensuring only the cream of the crop is found through their sites however, CSS-tricks is definitely the first place I go when stuck.
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