3rd Edition Information

• With the shutdown of the Eric Noah website, the next best source for 3E News is EN World, which Mr. Noah recommended over the last days that his site remained open. The discussion boards there are fairly decent.
  
  
• Useful 3E feature articles can be found at Monte Cook's website, which also contains a nice archive and fair discussion boards
  
  
• Then there's the Opening and the Main D&D web pages for Wizards of the Coast. Updates are irregularly posted. One nice regular feature: free character portrait clipart. WotC also maintains a set of publicly accessible D&D Message Boards
  
  
• WotC has discontinued development of all campaign settings except for Forgotten Realms (Faerun) and to a lesser extent Greyhawk. All other campaign settings have been officially licensed out to third parties:
  Planescape   Dragonlance   Ravenloft PR   Spelljammer   Dark Sun
  

DM Tools

• The Everchanging Book of Names (EBoN) site kicks ass for DMs. Its a small, easily downloaded and installed utility which places huge lists of names at your disposal. You could, for instance, select GreyHawk/Celene and knock out a list of 100 random elven names for NPCs. Core/Blackspeech is a great source of Tolkein orcish names, etc...
  
  
• If you don't want to go to the trouble of using a product, then you could do worse than to go to Alphabette Zoope! as a good source for character names. You can can page through male and female names alphabetically. It lists their classical origins and meanings.