Free wordpress themes – one of the biggest resource of Wordpress Themes.

Wordpress Themes – Free WordPress themes are added on a regular basis and available for you to use.

TemplatesBox – Get unlimited access to templates to create the highest quality website design. Save time and start building with a template today.

Free CSS Templates – Find hundreds of free CSS based design templates to start your website designs. All are quick to download in zip format.

Template Monster – Here you find a variety of design templates. There are flash, dynamic flash, PHP-Nuke, SWiSH animated, logo and many more ready to download.

Art for the Web – Not only can you download free website design templates including Wordpress and backgrounds but many design resources as well.

Free Layouts – If you are new to web-design these free layouts are just what you need to get started.

Free Templates Online – Professional-looking free templates are easy to customize and there are many to choose.

Interspire – Get free downloads of website templates for your websites, newsletters, logos and more.

Joyful Heart Designs – If you have a personal website to design then Joyful Heart Designs is the place to find designs with a text link or logo provided. These are not to be altered.

ThemesBase – This site has high quality templates for PHP-Fusion, e107, XOOPS, PHPNuke and a variety more.

TemplateNavigator – There are few free CSS based design template sites with as many designs as this site. Use the free template search to find what you want with ease.

DotcomWebDesign – Many free downloadable templates are available. They do come with a link to the site that you cannot remove.

Effex-Media – Search through this web designer’s dream of templates by categories making it quick and easy to find the perfect template.

Entheos – For those designers that use Dreamweaver, the templates are here along with CSS styles, fonts and more. It includes a systematic how to guide to building.

Dezinehub – Choose from money-saving templates to over a hundred free web templates to design your own or other’s websites.

Free-Flash-Template – Choose from web templates, intros and other special options. If you do not know flash it is ok, just add the text and you are ready to go.

Free Photoshop Browser Templates – Get free and clear looking Photoshop templates to show off your photography.

FreeWebsiteTemplates.com – No reciprocal link required with any of the many free website templates here.

Layouts4Free – There are thousands of free and premium layouts for websites, business cards and logos ready to use.

OpenSourceTemplates.org – Choose from the best free CSS and XHTML designs picked by the OpenSource community.

OpenSourceWebDesign – Download free templates and upload your own for others.

Painted Pixels – Fantastic free designs are here for personal websites available with a link back to their site.

Ricky’s Web Templates – There are many free templates here free use with a link back to them at the bottom of each page.

Snakeye Dreamweaver Web Templates – Download these templates free, customize them and edit at your will.

Steve’s Free Website Templates – Free templates with a required link back to this website.

Template Perfection – There are multiple templates in HTML, Flash intros and many more for your use.

Template Workz – Find free templates for Newsletters, logos and websites to download

Software for Editing Images

GIMP – Use this GNU image manipulation program to retouch photos, image composition and authoring of images. Mulit-languages are available.

Picasa – This free software download from Google help organize and locate your photos. Once you find them edit and add effects easily.

Illustration Software

Inkscape – This is an Open Source vector graphics editor. It has capabilities closely related to Illustrator including XML editing. Create shapes, paths, text, markers, gradients, patterns and more.

SmoothDraw NX – This freehand drawing tool is a limited free version of SmoothDraw. Get smooth strokes every time and smooth out the mouse input as well.

Authoring Tools

Project Dogwaffle Free – This freeware design software developed in VB is for creating animation and working in paint.
 

Animation Software

TouchArt Sampler – Get interactive 2D and 3D animations in this tool to perfect the art of live visuals. Edit visuals in real-time and gain control of lighting, textures, motion and more.

Synfig.org – This vector-based 2D animation program allows you to produce a feature-film quality video. It offers spatial, high dynamic range images and much more.

3D Modeling & CAD Software

LOOXIS Faceworx – This is a freeware used to create 3D head out of 2D photos. You need experience in placing reference points and marking contours to use this correctly. Save final 3D portrait as an OBJ format.

Bryce – Now you can create photo-realistic 3D landscapes with this freeware. Control the look and feel of every aspect of your creation from the lighting, sunset, sunrise and overall ambiance.
 

Flash Designing Software

Flash Slideshow Maker – Now you can create animated photo slide shows. Use it to transform digital photos into Macromedia Flash File Format SWF.

Sothink SWF Cather for IE – This IE extension allows you to save flash-based games, cards, movies and more with the click of a button.
 

Other Useful Freeware Design Software

Digital Image Tool – This software help you to batch process images quickly. It features options to resize, rotate, scale, crop, watermark and much more.

JR Screen Ruler – This small adjustable screen ruler measures the distance on your screen in centimeters, inches, pixels and picas. It adjusts to fit any screen.

Quick HTML Color Picker – When doing any kind of design color is of the essence. This freeware design software helps you with just that. This windows-based software allows you to choose any color from your screen, preview it, and get the color in both RGB and HTML format. This makes it easy to get perfect color every time.