For any developer or designer it is important to take a look at other peoples work to get new ideas and inspiration for a new design.
Over the last few years there has been a growth in Website and CSS design gallery’s so designers can take a look at the top designs to get that much needed inspiration. I also use them to show clients an example of a particular technique or to find what kind of style or design they like which is useful and means you have a good understanding of what your client is looking for before you even start.
1. http://www.csselite.com/This is an all round fantastic entry, it provides some of the top designs and allows great filtering options such as “clean”, “blog” “colourful”, “dark” etc and includes a usefull rating and commenting system for each design. On top of this you can also filter by month and perform a text search. Certainly one of the better sites!
2. http://bestwebgallery.com/Fully of new designs and enough that you’ll not run out. This web design and CSS gallery has a nice top 20 feature and a search box that allows you to search for specific designs. No option to filter by a category such as colour or design type, but the site itself looks very nice and is very easy to use. This site also includes a nice rating and comment system so you can view other peoples views and feedback on each design. Another source of CSS and website design inspiration.
3. http://www.cssheaven.comA quick and simple approach which allows you to filter through down to a few categories including Corporate Design, CSS Designs, Freelance Designer Portfolios, Web Design, Agencies, Web Designers, WordPress Themes. There is no option to search or any other filter options such as bu colour, template style or even by submission date. This said it still holds some great designs sure to give you plenty of new ideas.
4. http://wpinspiration.com/This one is for the wordpress lovers out there! A huge amount of beautiful wordpress driven designs that provides a great example of what can be done with a wordpress site. I often use this site to demonstrate to my clients what can be achieved with a wordpress site, it wins them over all the time. With easy to use pagination, a search option and filter by date added and random you can go wrong when your looking for some wordpress CSS web design inspiration.
5. http://www.webcreme.com/A very simple take on the inspirational CSS design gallery. Just a long list of interesting designs with pagination, no additional features just good old inspirational content.
We hope this quick post gives you some more great CSS website design gallerys to go to and find your inspiration!, Please let us know if you know of any other great sites!