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One can discuss whether numerous CSS-galleries challenge our creativity, however they can serve as a quite nice source for inspiration. The galleries of CSS-based designs showcase exemplary design practices, solutions, ideas and templates. Once you have no idea what you should do next with your web-site, it’s worth taking a look at some beautiful works – crème de la crème of CSS-designs – out there.

Below you’ll find a brief overview of css-galleries you can explore inspiration from.

Links checked: May/27 2008.

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CSS-Galleries: An Overview

• CSS Beauty
  CSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community. It showcases designers work and serves as inspiration for those looking to build CSS based websites.
• CSS Blast
  Russian CSS Showcase
• CSSBloom
  CSS Gallery with Blog’s and Online Portfolio’s
• CSS Clip
  Web Design Inspiration and Gallery
• CSS Collection
  CSS collection web sites without tables
• CSS-Demo
  CSS Showcase
• CSS Design Yorkshire
  A gallery of CSS web design in Yorkshire UK

  

• CSS Drive- Categorized CSS gallery and examples
  CSS gallery, code samples, tutorials, and moreCSS Collection
• CeeSeS
  CSS Gallery – We are the BalkaniCSS!
• CESKO
  CSS Showcase – Slovenia
• Creative-Pakistan
  Creative-Pakistan.com is a platform to showcase web and CSS designs of creative Pakistani web desginers
• CSSFill
  CSSFILL provides free CSS based layouts and templates
• CSS Galaxy
  CSS Gallery with voting and comments.

  

  CSS Hazard
  CSS Inspiration and Gallery

• CSS Heaven
  CSS Gallery – submit your own css design and view a gallery full of creative design inspiration. The submitted designs can be rated
• CSS ImportCSS
  The no-frills CSS Gallery

  

• CSS-Mania
  CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe
• CSS Princess
  CSS princess is showcase gallery of beautiful css sites. You can find web sites primarily done completly with css , without tables.
• CSS Reboot
  CSS Gallery – The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. This November 1st at 18:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world will launch their web standards-based redesigns
• CSS Remix
  A Fresh Blend of the Best CSS Web Design
• CSS smooth operator // Tite site collection
  Tite site collection, conforms to Web Standards and designed with CSS

  

• csstux – The best dressed sites on the web
  A gallery of inspiring web site design and resources, focused primarily on sites using cascading style sheets.
• CSS Vault – The Web’s CSS Site
  A repository of sites using cascading style sheets and a list of resources
• CSS Website
  Gallery of Css Design Website. Submit your site.
• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
  A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Classic!

  

• Design Shack – Inspirational CSS and Blog Design
  Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn’t fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.
• Liquid Designs
  Liquid Designs is a gallery of websites designed with liquid layouts using XHTML and CSS
• Piepmatzel
  collecting best practice web standards design examples

  

• Style Crunch
  StyleCrunch is a css and standards websites gallery
• Stylegala – Web Design Publication
  Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
• Submit CSS
  Submit your own css design and view a gallery full of creative design inspiration
• Unmatched Style
  Unmatched Style is a constantly growing community dedicated to acknowledging those who have made exceptionally gorgeous web sites using Cascading Style Sheets and web standards. By recognizing these exceptionally beautiful designs, other designers and businesses can get inspired and find a direction they may wish to take with their own web sites.

  

• W3 Compliant Sites: Sites designed to comply with W3C Web Site Standards
  A collection of web standards compliant web sites and their designers
• Webdigity
  CSS gallery
• Web Standards Awards
  Awarding web sites that successfully combine form and function
• Well Designed CSS Sites
  Andy Budds List of well styled sites.