Online tools
This is not an exhaustive list, obviously. There are so many great resources out there! But it's a start:
General Tools
W3C Schools HTML help pages
W3C Schools CSS help pages
HTML5 Cheat Sheet
CSS Mega Cheat Sheet
Typography
CSS Font Stack
If you want to use system fonts, and to be sure that your font choices work for a larger percentage of users, check out the lists available here. You can see the availability if you mouse over the "i", and the copied stack will have viable backup fonts included.
Google Web Fonts
Another approach you can take now is to embed the font(s) you'd like to use on your website, and the easiest way to do this is to use the open source typefaces available from Google.
Font Face Ninja
A tool to help you identify fonts you see on the web.
Color Tools
Kuler
This tool is designed to integrate with Photoshop and will let upload your own palettes as well.
Colors in Different Cultures
What particular colors can mean to different cultural groups. Fascinating visualization!
Image Resources
Creative Commons Uber-Search
This tool will let you search the web for artwork which has a creative commons license. Simply click on the site you want to search, and then put in your search terms.
14 Stock Art Collections
CreativeBloq has a good collection of paid services here, with comparisons.
Browsers & Screen Resolution
W3C Schools
In addition to lots of other great stuff, W3C schools has a decent collection of stats on the browsers people are using most commonly and the screen resolutions they use.
Real Time Browser Resolution Stats
Collects data from 2500 sites, and more than 300,00 visitors for some interesting information.
Validators
HTML Validator
From the W3C. This will tell you if your code is copacetic.
CSS Validator
Also from the W3C. This will check out your Cascading Style Sheets.
Link Checker
One more from the W3C. A tool that checks your links.
Wave
This will let you check your pages for web accessibility problems.
Other Useful Tools
WebsiteOptimization.com
More services to measure download times and usability issues.
Web Page Analyzer
A more in-depth measurement of a page's speed. Cool service. (Free)
Please make suggestions!
If you find something really useful, please email me and I can add it to the list.