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The best CSS and Flash web galleries - Places to inspire

Posted by Alex
May 7, 2008

Ever found yourself blank, with no inspiration or in a situation in which every idea you come up with seems not good enough ? Well, don’t worry. Every designer has these kind of moments.

CSS and Flash web galleries are great places to get inspiration from. Most galleries showcase loads of good and original concepts which can get you over these kind of moments.

CSS Beauty

CSS Beauty - Best CSS and Flash Web Galleries

Probably the oldest (it was started in 2004) and most known and appreciated CSS gallery. It’s maintained by Alex Giron, co-founder and senior consultant of nclud and includes besides the web gallery a job board, a design news section and one of the best CSS forums on the web.

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Design Snack

Design Snack - Best CSS and Flash Web Galleries

Design Snack is our personal favorite (except CLD Web Gallery of course) CSS and Flash web gallery. It’s a user controlled web design showcase, meaning that the content is decided by the users, not by the admins.

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CSS Mania

CSS Mania - Best CSS and Flash Web Galleries

CSS Mania is another great web gallery with a 4 year tradition behind. Currently it indexes over 10000 websites and has over 13000 RSS subscribers. Started by Gabriel Segura, one of the founders of Blogs Media, featuring a powerful perl/php/mysql script mix, CSS Mania offers besides the web gallery a really nice job board.

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CSS Remix

CSS Remix - Best CSS and Flash Web Galleries

“A fresh blend of the best-designed Web 2.0 sites” as they call themselves, CSS Remix is one of the giants of the niche with over 13000 readers. It’s powered by the strong content management system Expresion Engine which makes CSS Remix one of the most reliable websites of its kind.

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Best Web Gallery

Best Web Gallery - Best CSS and Flash Web Galleries

Best Web Gallery is a really stylish CSS and Flash websites showcase. It’s maintained by Nick La, the founder of Web Designer Wall and N.Design-Studio . Powered by Wordpress, this web gallery has quickly became one of the top names of the niche.

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CSS Elite

CSS Elite - Best CSS and Flash Web Galleries

CSS Elite, started in March 2006, is a great CSS gallery and web development resources website. Also powered by Wordpress, what sets this gallery apart is the great collection of design resources, fit for any web developer.

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Cool CSS animated menu - MacOS style

Posted by Alex
November 9, 2007

Ever wondered how they made that cool MacOS bottom menu, with icons that become larger when the cursor is on top of them? Well .. with some neat tricks.

Cool CSS animated menu - MacOS style

This CSS Animated Menu does exactly that. It’s based on JQuery Java script library and Fisheye component from Interface. It’s 100% compatible with IE 6, IE 7, Opera 9, Firefox 2, and Safari 2. You may see a demo here and you can download and find out how to implement it in your HTML page here.

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Compressing your CSS Stylesheet

Posted by Alex
April 14, 2007

Compressing your CSS file is a great way to save bandwidth especially on big websites. The are loads of firms that will compress the CSS files for you but the problem is that you need to recompress it after each modification.

To solve this and do the compression yourself you need to write a few lines of PHP code.

Read the tutorial here 

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CSS Showcase

Posted by Alex
January 24, 2007

Here is a list of CSS websites showcasing great design, tableless websites :