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a selection of the best CSS Showcases for design inspiration
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large thumbnails of top screen of home page. High quality, exceptionally well-designed sites are featured here.
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Thumbnails link to very large image of the complete home page
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nice size thumbnails of the complete home page; can sort by color; clean layout and design
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nice thumbnails include the complete top screen of the home page; clean layout and design
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small thumbnails of the top screens of home pages
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nice thumbnails of each complete home page; also includes latest news
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nice thumbnails of complete home pages; includes news. Stylegala also contains a very usable CSS Reference - an alphabetical list over the most common CSS1 and CSS2 syntax and properties. Click on a property to see examples, browser support, possible values etc.
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nice thumbnails of the complete top screen of home pages; clean layout and design
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Aggregation of CSS Showcase sites.
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mouseover links at bottom of page and thumbnails popup; searchable by color and combinations of color; site palettes are included
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Daily list of beautiful sites; new site every day. Mouseover the thumbnails at bottom for larger versions
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Large thumbnails with the top sections of home pages
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small thumbnails of the complete home page; can browse by category including 2-column, 3-column and mixed column, vertical CSS menu, horizontal CSS menu, corporate, unconventional, etc.
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50 of the most beautiful designs from 2006. Big thumbnails of the top screen of home pages.
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light on dark showcase of well designed & coded web sites with light text on a dark background. Large thumbnail of complete home page at top; smaller thumbs at bottom
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Nice collection of attractive CSS footers ... a page element often overlooked.
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Thumbnails include compete top screen of home page; visitors can sort these sites by color and popularity.
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One of the original CSS Showcases. Maintains consistently high quality. Medium sized thumbnails
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Some stunning, but rather unknown dark designs. Another well-done connection of websites by Smashing Magazine. As usual, the thumbnails are nice and large, including the top portion of each home page.
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Sites are categorized by color, design elements & techniques used, and type of site. Also includes a nice selection of well-written and illustrated tutorials. Wonderful insight into all kinds of aspects of web design, with a focus on "2.0" style. Comprehensive.
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Cutting-edge, high-end design.
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Large thumbnails of homes pages
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thumbnails of the top screen of home pages.
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A compendium of CSS directories, CSS showcase, CSS galleries that rank / grade websites (using CSS) on the basis of ‘alexa ranking’, colors, categories, tags, ratings and RSS.
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60 fresh, elegant, professional and visually appealling designs, which pay close attention to details and manage to remain simple, user-friendly and nice-looking ... from Smashing Magazine. Large thumbnails that include the top screen of each home page.
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Valid CSS/XHTML websites .... thumbnails include top screen of each home page. If you submit your site here, include a thumbnail 180 x 135.
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David Pitlyuk spent the time to look through 414 websites of publicly traded companies in the technology sector starting with the letters A-G, and chose the 45 best designs. This is part 1 of 5, covering each range of letters. Thumbnails are large and include the top screen of each home page.
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Another great collection of terrific websites from Smashing Magazine. Large thumbnails of the entire top screen of home pages.
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Of all 1,088 websites in the tech sector that are traded publicly on the stock market, these are the Best of the Best according to Davi Pitlyuk.
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Smashing Magazine's exhaustive list of CSS Showcases and Galleries
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A collection of clean, simple website designs put together by Smashing Magazine. Large thumbnails of the top screen of home pages.
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Collection of beautiful websites compiled by Smashing Magazine. Large thumbnails of entire top screen of home pages.
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csszengarden archives with thumbnails
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Good sized home page thumbnails. You'd better like grunge.
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CSS Gallery with thumbnail of the complete home page. Click on the Archives by Month to view very large thumbnails of the home page.
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A growing collection of CSS Showcases and Galleries ... this site also includes viewer-submitted articles related to web design, typography, CSS, etc.
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What makes these sites unique is they used various traditional art techniques and applied to modern web design technology.
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We pride ourselves on having a huge selection of inspiring sites - perfect for getting that spark of creativity going again. Also includes news and articles.
Small, partial thumbnails of home pages. Search by color, category or layout.
They describe themselves this way:
We showcase stunning CSS and Web 2.0 design, alongside resources and inspiration for you to succeed in the same way. We only offer the cream of great design, perfect for getting that spark of creativity going again.
Small, partial thumbnails of home pages. Search by color, category or layout.
They describe themselves this way:
We showcase stunning CSS and Web 2.0 design, alongside resources and inspiration for you to succeed in the same way. We only offer the cream of great design, perfect for getting that spark of creativity going again.
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A selection of 20 weblogs that are mainly designed by the fine arts, graphs or illustrations. The artwork of these weblogs is really attractive and beautiful.
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Aggregates designs from all the popular css and design galleries. So you don't have to visit them all! Mouseover links to view popup images of the inspired sites.
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Fadtastic is showcasing some of the more focused galleries.
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Huge collection of CSS and Flash showcases. Mouseover each to view the site.
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CSS Gallery focusing on typographically rich and super clean designs.
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Very wide but short thumbnails of home pages. Can sort by category.
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bookmark list of these “inspirational” sites
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CSS Showcase - we allow our members, not editors, to ultimately choose the website submissions that are showcased. User controlled web design showcase
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15 Excellent examples of Web Typography that make excellent use of type. Some of the examples mimic the typography of print, while others actually leverage web technology, smart CSS and delicious HTML to make their pages not only aesthetically pleasing, but legible, user-friendly and easily navigable.
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a collection of snippets of good design; organized by category: ads, banners, callouts, forms, adnimation, breadcrumbs, colors, headlines, backgrounds, buttons, depth effects.
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Juicy Showcase Rank was designed to organize and feature the best website showcases on the internet. The rank is based on the web design, originality, updated frequency and the Google Pagerank. And the column of Type and Color represent the categorize method of showcases. Be cool, this rank will be regularly updated.
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A list of nearly every CSS gallery in existance.
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A list of 50 different places to spark inspiration, and help initiate ideas during the dry periods.
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A list of 34 different places to spark inspiration, and help initiate ideas during the dry periods.
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Large thumbnails of websites with big bold backgrounds.
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A list of Website Galleries/Showcases and their Alexa rankings
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CSS NATURE is a showcase of well designed css and xhtml nature based website designs. Small thumbnails.
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interesting selection of web sites with creative footers ... with comments about each.
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This elegant site showcases logos, business cards, CSS websites and Flash sites all in the same place. if you submit your site, incliude a thumbnail 320 x 260.
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A showcase of well designed and coded websites withlight text on dark background. Nice size thumbs.
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A collection of web sites created by designers that conform with the W3C standards.
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Good sized thumbnails.
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Web sites that have been inspired by oriental design.
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web sites inspired by vintage design
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Their slogan: naked sites - shedding tables and running free.
