There are hundreds of resources available on the Internet using which a freelance designer can create good designs and establish his business online.

Here are a few popular resources for freelance designers:

1.Web Design Library- This is one of the popular resources, which lets a designer take an in-depth analysis of the events related to design world. It provides information on varied range of topics including Web Design Basics, Photoshop, Raster & Vector Graphics, Flash & Swish, 3D Graphics, HTML and CSS, Web Programming, Website Showcase, Design Accessories, Flash Elements, Software Reviews, Web Designers' Interviews etc.

2.Stock.Xchng- This is a Free stock photo website to download and share images. A designer can browse through a huge image gallery comprising of over 400,000 quality stock photos by more than 30,000 photographers.

3.CSS Beauty- This resource provides variety of nicely crafted CSS based websites developed and designed by famous designers across the world. CSS based websites submitted on this website works as a great inspiration for budding designers.

4.UrbanFonts- It is a well-designed and easy-to-use free font website with over 8,000 freeware fonts and dingbats which can be downloaded. This interesting resource provides a small text box to change the font size, font color and background color as per designer's requirement.

5.Brusheezy- This resource offers a huge collection of the best custom Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop patterns. These can be easily downloaded and allows a designer to upload his own developed patterns on the website.

6.Hot Scripts- Another comprehensive Web directory, offers a long list of over 44,000 web development and programming-related online resources. It provides scripts in over 1000+ categories that can be used by coders, marketers, programmers, webmasters etc. across the globe.

7.IconFinder- It is a simple resource that enables a freelance web designer to search and extract icon resources in separate files. It doesn't require any installer since the only executable file makes use of a standard system API calls. A designer can easily download icons in two different formats, namely PNG and ICO, and can be used like a favicon icon.

8.BgPaterrns- It is another free web-based application for freelance designers. It allows them to test a variety of attractive background patterns, backgrounds & textures and then craft a fast design tiled pattern, backgrounds etc. It offers pattern from where a designer can use varied patterns from ready-to-use images. It also enables a designer to  edit, scale or rotate the images for drawing these patterns.

Hope these resources would help in enhancing your design skills and knowledge about deign world. I welcome your feedback, suggestions and views on the same.