CrazyLeaf Editorial 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
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.
Info :
- Alexa : 100828
- Google Pagerank : 7 / 10
- Technorati Rank : 10135
- Submission page link
Design Snack
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.
Info :
- Alexa : 114653
- Google Pagerank : 3 / 10
- Technorati Rank : n/a
- Submission page link
CSS Mania
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.
Info :
- Alexa : 83986
- Google Pagerank : 7 / 10
- Technorati Rank : 7740
- Submission page link
CSS Remix
“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.
Info :
- Alexa : 189754
- Google Pagerank : 4 / 10
- Technorati Rank : 20303
- Submission page link
Best Web Gallery
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.
Info :
- Alexa : 94154
- Google Pagerank : 7 / 10
- Technorati Rank : 8374
- Submission page link
CSS Elite
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.
Info :
- Alexa : 106707
- Google Pagerank : 6 / 10
- Technorati Rank : 34741
- Submission page link
CSS Zen Garden
CSS Zen Garden is, like the title says, the Zen of CSS Design. It was started as a demonstration of the power of CSS and as an encouragement for designers to learn as much CSS as possible to make the Internet a more beautiful place. This is a must-stop place for web designers, and this thing is illustrated by the highest Google page rank of all web galleries.
Info :
- Alexa : 43258
- Google Pagerank : 8 / 10
- Technorati Rank : n/a
- Submission page link
W3C Sites
Despite its name, W3C SItes is not an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) . It’s just a solid, popular, standard-compliant websites showcase. Started in 2004, W3C Sites is getting over 3 million hits / month, showcases over 11500 websites and hosts a community of over 5600 designers from 113 countries.
Info :
- Alexa : 96873
- Google Pagerank : 4 / 10
- Technorati Rank : n/a
- Submission page link
Design Flavr
As Design Snack, Design Flavr is also one of our favorite web galleries. This websites is part of the “new wave” of web galleries that’s challenging the “elders” domination in this niche. The best way to describe this website is tasteful. Everything is at it’s place, the colours combine perfectly, the menus are great, even the advertising doesn’t bother. Design Flavr also hosts loads of quality design resources.
Info :
- Alexa : 162605
- Google Pagerank : 5 / 10
- Technorati Rank : 64957
- Submission page link
Stylegala
Stylegala is actually a portal for web designers offering everything from design news to a great resources, a design forum and inspirational material (the gallery).
Info :
- Alexa : 169744
- Google Pagerank : 6 / 10
- Technorati Rank : n/a
- Submission page link
Other Web galleries worth mentioning :
- CLD Web Gallery
- CSS Play
- CSS Vault
- CSS Drive
- CSS Import
- CSS Heroes
- CSStux
- CSS Based
- Flickr – Web Design Inspiration
- Designer Source
- Stationary Style
- CSS Flash
- Web Design Gallery
- Unmatched Style
- CSS Hazard
- CSS Collection
- CSS Elite
- Screenalicio.us
- CSS Boom
- Web Creme
- CSS-Website
- CSS Garden
- CSS Artillery
- CSS Nature
- CSS Divine
- Inspiration Folder
- CSSloaf
- CSS Moon
- CSS Design
- CSS Hot
- Urban Trash
- CSSGallery
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