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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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May 8, 2008 at 4:57 pm
excellent roundups.
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May 12, 2008 at 9:28 am
Thanks for that long list of galleries they are truly amazing. No doubt that the work is inspirational, awesome post.
May 15, 2008 at 2:18 pm
What about http://www.inspirationfolder.com
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May 15, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I’ve added Ispiration Folder to the list and to our Design Resources page. Good find.
May 24, 2008 at 5:39 am
Be sure to also check out
FaveUp
and
Adobe’s Site of the Day
May 27, 2008 at 8:13 am
Yeah, ZenGarden and CSSMania are tops when it comes to inspiration / learning grounds. Dave Shea, the author of ZenGarden is the godfather of CSS.
I also find helpful, along with these inspiration is Adobe’s kuler for finding killer color combination. I’ve used it with many of my sites and most of my visitors LOVE it.
http://kuler.adobe.com/
Cheers!
John
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June 8, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Has Stylegala updated it sites lately? It doesn’t seem like anyone is monitoring the site anymore…
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June 8, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Indeed it seems to be out of date.
June 8, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I suggest http://www.cssmoon.com
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June 9, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I would love to have CSSloaf added to the list as it brings together designs from 35 other showcases so that you don’t have to go all over the place to see the latest designs.
CSS Loaf | Ultimate Design Gallerys last blog post : WebResourcesLinks
June 10, 2008 at 11:29 am
Other Web Gallery CSS Design
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June 10, 2008 at 2:51 pm
CSS Moon, CSS loaf and CSS Design were added to the list.
June 10, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Don’t forget about http://www.csshot.com
JBs last blog post : Latest
June 13, 2008 at 11:15 am
Don’t forget about http://www.urbantrash.net/cssgallery
July 1, 2008 at 2:24 pm
thank you…
July 3, 2008 at 1:11 am
I’d agree that you could add http://www.cssloaf.com I think its a pretty sweet idea!
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July 3, 2008 at 1:49 pm
thank you…
July 8, 2008 at 5:36 pm
thank you….
July 22, 2008 at 9:28 am
thank you..
July 29, 2008 at 10:38 am
thank you…
August 1, 2008 at 9:26 am
thank you.
August 9, 2008 at 10:46 am
Thank you for sharing….
August 13, 2008 at 9:53 am
thank you fo sharing
August 24, 2008 at 8:42 am
you can as well add this list to your favorite. http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/css/
September 1, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Great list. Hopefully Delicious CSS will grace these pages, but until then, we’ll continue to add great CSS designs to our gallery: http://www.deliciouscss.com
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March 10, 2009 at 10:34 pm
And don’t forget about http://CreamyCSS.com showcase
April 9, 2009 at 4:30 am
Here is a CSS gallery to add to your list. CSS Gallery.com The CSSGallery.com index includes CSS galleries, CSS designs and Flash designs. All are searched using category,keywords or color. Enjoy!
June 15, 2009 at 10:41 am
thanks
August 25, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Thanks Guys for the Info here. don’t forget other site like w3school of CSS.
September 8, 2009 at 8:06 pm
A longer list:
http://www.stonesouptech.com/blog/2009/09/a-more-complete-up-to-date-list-of-css-galleries/
Helpful if you want to submit to 200+ CSS galleries.