One of the pet peeves of being a web designer is that you sometimes end up not feeling very creative and in need of inspiration. Of course there are thousands of CSS galleries out there, but we thought we could just go ahead and make our own list of great website designs. Hoping this will help you get your creative juices flowing!
Creattica Daily
Design Disease
Komodo Media
Down The Fox Hole
The Loria Family
Lewro
Blogsessive
Chris Spooner
Design Work Plan
Adii
GoMedia Zine
Stylized Web
Jeff Croft
MonoFactor
True Blue Titan
Armen Thomassian
Kreestal
Tim Ferriss
MatBlogg
Positive Space Blog
Matt Bango
Viget Inspire
Jeff Saramiento
Pearsonified
Playground Blues
Your Turn To Talk
So, which ones are your faves? And why? See ya in the comment section!
Really a great list! I especially like Design Disease, nice colors and layout.
I love Design Disease!
@Chris @Umar: Thanks! Glad you liked the list guyz! Design Disease is a sick one! :)
great blog designs you mean. websites are not just blogs and personal homepages
@Ben: thanks for your comment Ben! Well, yes most of them are blogs, and… a blog is a website. :)
Hey Jon…….thanks for the list man. I see you are back to rocking and rolling both online and offline. By the way, that design disease is awesome….thanks for the list man something to look at while on the computer (besides working) ;-)
Stunning, How about posting teh templates?
Jiff
http://www.privacy-center.be.tc
nice but many of them look like the same designer created them
A few very elegant designs in there! :)
Great designs…!
Great designs…!
Very Nice designs. My favorites are the ones that make the text portion the most readable without sacrificing a smooth design.
Thank you guys for great compil. =)
Blogsessive is awesome…
And for blog I prefer Redoable design by Dean J Robinson..
Absolutely amazing! Wow. So many talented designers and so many businesses with boring websites. These sites and beautiful yet easy to read. Thank you.
Another one! http:/www.thatindiedude.com :)
Honestly, most of these looks the same and are quite boring. They don’t even utilize much creativity. Anyone can piece together a structured look utilizing a color scheme as many of these have. Only a select few of about 3 to 4 actually seem to have any creativity in them, and that is mostly because of the artwork behind them. The rest are pretty much copies of each other and things that have been done countless times before. There is not much inspiration here, only a rehash of concepts which have already been explored time and time again in the web community.
Jon, this is the second time you honor me with mentioning Blogsessive as a good design. This time, it Spyre Mag’s first “creative” article. Thank you! Coming from such a talented professional as you it means a lot!
Tex, thank you! I’m glad that my time invested in designing Blogsessive managed to attract such a good response and that users come to a blog they enjoy not only content wise.
Trendy? Flavor of the week? I agree with Evan. Not much awesome here.
Thanks a lot for all the great comments! It’s really appreciated! :)
@Evan, @critic: thanks for sharing your thoughts, though I don’t agree with you, it’s cool that you voice your opinions. I’d love to see designs that you guys did! :)
Merci pour cet article !
@Belleetsexy: Mais tout le plaisir est pour moi :)
wow….really nice design
Hi,
What about this nice design. Have a look.
http://www.mylittleuni.com/
Regards,
smartData
Nice list, not feeling though that there is anything out there though.
http://www.doktored.com
Pretty nice list, my favorite design though is http://www.avengex.com. The site is no longer maintained but I think the design is very inspirational.
Thank you guys for presenting me. I am happy you like my design.
Thanks a lot for featuring my blog, Jon! You make my day :)
Thanks for the comments guyz! Keep ’em coming! :)
@lewro, @kReEsTaL: you’re very welcome! Keep up the good work!
Nice themes. It makes me jealous when I see this kind of nice themes and compare it with my own design.
great list.. please create a list of the best “blue” websites if you get time!
@navneet: Here’s a post on YouTheDesigner you might be interested in http://www.youthedesigner.com/2008/09/22/25-refreshingly-blue-website-designs/ :)
Wow… amazing list….. thanks
I really love the Loria Family blog site. It’s attractive, clean and with one look, gives an impression of depth (tons of content). Plus, Flash banners are always a plus in my book.
Matt Bango reminds me of some stuff we’ve done. Personally, I really like the work our Art Director did recently with Raven. I would call it minimal meets modern.
http://ravenseo.com/
Komodo media gets my vote.
Nice collection!
Thank you for choosing to feature my humble blog amongst these amazing sites!
GoMedia Zine looks pretty fresh. I’m enjoying it.
Thanks for the list.
Excellent inspiration.
Think I like Lewro’s blog, but the display isn’t right and let’s my browser crash. Repeatedly. Am I the only one?
I love to see truly great designers shine in this world-wide viewport called the interwebs. It is inspiring and just.
With very few exceptions those sites all have the same basic layout. They are aesthetically very pleasing, but in terms of being 25 different designs I’d argue there’s about 12 designs there with another 13 great “themes” on them. Each one is very nice though.
Great list! I’ll be using them for inspiration in my work in the near future. Just delicious’d this.
GoMedia is the champ. The free vectors are amazing.
Sas – I am sorry to hear that. Which browser are you using? I have not customized this version for IE6 but the other browsers should be fine. Let me know if you find time I will try to fix it.
Thanks!
Lewro
Every last one of these websites look exactly alike. Same font and core design. Would of been nice to include some that actually were different from each other.
Viget.com looks amazing, I love the concept. I’ve seen most sites on this list but not that one! Thanks.
Some are cool and all, but I agree with an earlier commenter. Very nice for “bloggers”.
Some of the sites are pretty, but none seem to be for a commercial purpose. A design of a website which is intended to make money needs to be planned and built around the advertising – in particular put the adverts in hot zones near the top and left, not way over in a bar on the right hand side.
In other words, these are art, not design – design is art for a purpose.
gomedia is my favorite. cleveland represent :)
I don’t want to be a downer, but this trend in web design is beginning to wear a little thin. Though these are head and shoulders above other sites stuck in the early nineties, I believe we need to move on stylistically.
These designs were kind of cool at one point, but now seem to provide visual filler where there is a lack of content. Too often certain decorative images and elements bear no relation to the actual subject matter of the site and exist just to be prettify the page.
There seems to be a bucking of the traditional tenet of visual design and that is to clearly communicate, not obfuscate.
Sorry, but that’s just an honest opinion.
always glad to see such an impressive designs , thanks for this collection!
Keep on !
Thanks for all the great comments everyone! :)
I got more posts lined up, hope you’re gonna like them!
Thanks so much for featuring my site. I appreciate being listed with a bunch of great designers.
Thank you very much for this post. These websites are very great sources of inspiration.
Jad Limcaco
Jad Graphics
562.235.7287
http://www.jadgraphics.net
I liked all websites and they are really very well designed.
but i like MonoFactor most. :)
Thanks for this list.
thanks for the mention!
really nice collection
i am bookmarking this page!!!
kudos, nice blog
Great collection of sites here, well done!
really nice designs!!!!
Not bad a few I would disagree with. One of my site http://redchilli.com would of been good to mention as you are lacking some of the more simpler and stronger branded commercial site designs.
Nice one, Simon
Another vote for for Go Media – i’m a frequent visitor to that website and its full of useful and interesting tricks and downloads. Everyone should check it out.
Good sites for inspiration. Often looking at other sites will give you what you need to move forward.
Great designs , I think design is 90% grabbing inspiration and regurgitating it with our own spin.
Nice collection, I agree that Design Disease in really original and nicely done!
Great post – Some good designs here.
Generating inspiration from a number of sources will always help enhance your ideas. Template sites in particular showcase hundreds of websites, all of which will help contribute to your final design.
Any designer knows what a struggle it can be to create the perfect website. Trying to grab your audience’s attention can be quite a challenge but if you do sufficient research and source who your competition is, then you should be able to create a unique website that appeals to all.
Awesome designs.. ;)
This is a great list of inspirational websites. I appreciate the creativity and hard work it takes to put something truly unique together.
Great collection but I would vote for Design Disease. :D
Great list, I especially liked “Personified”. It’s simple but stands out well.
All of them are very unique and inspiring.
I’m not sure about other Web Designers, but for myself, finding inspiration for a web design is always vital. I have spent far to many ours in photoshop staring at the screen waiting for that moment of inspiration to hit. Fantastic list of resources.
Design Disease is brilliant. A couple of websites i havent seen before and will be using to draw inspiration from. Top stuff!
Some nice clean examples of design here. I do fear that some websites are getting a generic wordpress look, although very nice, they are starting to lose their individuality but most of these are pretty unique.
I do like The Loria Family design very stylish