Following the success of our last year’s article, Most Beautiful Websites of 2008, we decided to publish this year’s most beautiful and inspirational websites, handpicked from our web gallery.







We all love cakes and we are always impressed by the way they look. In our days there are a lot of shapes and stuff but nothing extraordinary that can make you say …WOW, is that a cake?
Well, in Russia you can find a baker that can make you say that anytime. Her name is Zhanna, she’s from St. Petersburg, and she manages to make incredible cakes. What I’m really curios is what is the price for such a cake?
Maybe I’ll get a comment with a list of prices…
Anyway the artistic side of this baker really shocked me. I kept looking at her cake photos and just imagine how it would feel to cut the first piece from such a cake? From my point of you cannot name Zhanna as a baker but as a truthful artist. What is the most interesting part of her work is that everything you will see is backed with 100% eatable ingredients. So no help from plastic parts of anything else. You can just eat everything from them until the last little piece.
Here below I have a few examples of her work. For more on that you can just visit the official place where this were all presented and you can see 50+ examples of tasty pictures( maybe not the one with the fishes but …)
Start playing….or eating…depends if you take a really good look at this cake or not




For our first yearly wrap up we want to bring you the best 50 CSS and Flash website designs of 2008 handpicked from our website showcase, CLD Web Gallery.
2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of reflections and two tone colors. This style is used less and less, and some new design trends are starting to emerge (the vintage style seems to be catching on)
The sites below are the most representative designs, collected by us for our CSS and Flash Web Gallery. Apart from the showcase we added a little description of each website so you can get an idea what’s it about.
If you are looking to print any of these vivid pages,make sure your ink cartridges are full first as some are quite colorful
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OLDesign is the portfolio of Olof Lönnroth, a webdesigner, musician and soon to be Bachelor of Informatics, living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
FortySeven Media is the portfolio of Jonathan Longnecker and Nate Croft and the do, as described by themselves, kick awesome web design, graphic design and media creation.
Efingo is the portfolio of a romanian designer specialized in Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW and 3D Studio MAX.
Caty Design Studio is the portfolio of very talented graphic and web designer Caty Ng from Singapore.
Saizen Media is the portfolio of a very talented design team. They do mainly (spectacular) Flash websites.
N.Design Studio is the portfolio and design resources website of Nick La, the owner of 2 other well-known websites Web Designer Wall and Best Web Gallery.
Larissa Meek is the website of 3D animator, Miss USA finalist, bikini model, actress and reality TV star Larissa Meek.
Kulturbanause is the blog, portfolio and online playground of Jonas Hellwig.