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Crème de la crème of CSS: List of CSS Galleries
December 21st, 2006 in CSS, Design Showcase | 51 Comments
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.
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 - CSSGreen
CSS Gallery Of Great Design and valid Web Sites
- CSSBrain
CSS gallery with comments. - 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 - CSSelite
We are glad you like our site, that’s why we save every single entry we make so you can get real inspiration from the best of the bests! - 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
- CSS Thesis
A Gallery of CSS based web sites, ranked by votes. - 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!
- Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery
The CSS Table Gallery is a showcase of how CSS and data tables can work together to create usable and pretty results. - 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
- Proestilo
CSS/XHTML Gallery all standard complient. - showcase GR
The best of Greek CSS web design - Standards Reboot
Standards Reboot is all about the use of standards in web design. This site was built to take a back seat and showcase your talent. - 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.
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Mark (December 21st, 2006, 9:32 pm)
And again there is no Gigastyle.be, its the Benelux version of CSSzengarden, butt how knows it ??
Carlos Eduardo (December 22nd, 2006, 12:02 am)
Thank you for this links!
Certainly it will help me to create a new layout for my blog :))
Uzbek (December 27th, 2006, 1:06 pm)
Great list,
Used to store my list in my mailbox :) Now I’m digg’ing this…
Thanks…
k0ma (January 5th, 2007, 2:33 am)
As a fan of dark sites, I find Link [www.lightondark.com] to be a nice collection.
css gallery (January 6th, 2007, 7:45 am)
you forgot us! Link [www.csselite.com]
tz (January 6th, 2007, 6:48 pm)
Link [www.zeniltuo.com]
enjoy. Hope this helpful too.
ProWebART (February 17th, 2007, 10:04 am)
ProWebArt is web design gallery where we collect the most inspirational and quality web designs.
CssImpress (March 2nd, 2007, 7:29 pm)
Hi,
There is a new css gallery that is worth to take a look at:
Link [www.cssimpress.com]
I guess this list is endless.
igor (March 4th, 2007, 10:43 pm)
what is Screenshot plese says to me it. Bye Bye
Jooh Ly Wen (March 24th, 2007, 11:08 pm)
What about the portfolio gallery site Link [www.portfoliobase.com] ?? Very cool
david de beukelaer (March 26th, 2007, 3:57 pm)
css gallery:
Link [www.kovver.com]
david blanchet (March 31st, 2007, 2:07 am)
Link [standardsreboot.com]
its that time of year again May 07
ecom (March 31st, 2007, 6:27 pm)
Quite interesting with nice feature ‘My favourites’
Link [www.welldonesites.com]
curtis (June 1st, 2007, 9:50 pm)
You should add Link [www.cssexchange.com] to your list
Chad Jaggers (June 8th, 2007, 4:07 am)
Thank you for this list. It is very helpful to see what other designers are doing. Keep up the good lists Smashing. You should add Link [www.cssburst.com] to your list.
Martin Gaik (July 18th, 2007, 7:03 pm)
Here it is - Link [www.hostpattern.com] - css gallery with excellent websites listed. You can rate, comment and submit. The main thing - the ads are not abusive (almost none).
FortyPoundHead (July 21st, 2007, 11:47 pm)
Does anyone know how to get ahold of the webmaster at CSS Remix? It appears that his site has been cracked by a Turkish retard.
Mac (August 1st, 2007, 9:52 pm)
You could add Link [www.cssleak.com]
Razvan (August 20th, 2007, 5:27 pm)
Don’t forget about the Link [www.designcreme.com].
Paul (November 16th, 2007, 6:44 am)
Here’s another one(I know another CSS Gallery) but it’s cool - Link [bigtechnical.com]
Secma (January 4th, 2008, 4:17 am)
Nice Galleries.
CSSArtillery.com (January 10th, 2008, 9:24 am)
Don’t forget Link [www.cssartillery.com]
Adrian (January 14th, 2008, 2:27 am)
This list is not complete without Link [csscreme.com]
Abulafia (January 17th, 2008, 1:30 am)
Here is another on css gallery Link [www.cssband.com]
Vince (February 1st, 2008, 6:13 am)
Another css galerie with free templates (wordpress, phpbb, joomla ..) : Link [www.themes-css.com]
Funner (February 2nd, 2008, 5:42 pm)
I think we should mention a new one here : Link [www.fantasticss.com]
Kishore Blog (February 13th, 2008, 6:36 am)
Nice Gallaries. Thanks. Ofcourse im a regular visitor here.
Link [kishoreblog.com]
Ryan (February 15th, 2008, 5:39 pm)
The best one I’ve seen so far is Link [www.inspirationfolder.com]Link [www.inspirationfolder.com]
Quincy Pabotoy (February 18th, 2008, 6:44 am)
My designs are inspired by simplicity, straight lines, music, life, and the world
around us. Each design is original and produces the effects the client wants.
Tom Ross (March 3rd, 2008, 11:16 am)
Nice list!
For those interested in submitted to CSS Galleries you should check out my website: Link [www.cssgallerylist.com] - it’s a similar idea to this post but is monitored so that links don’t become inactive. Just a heads up :)
Tom Ross (March 3rd, 2008, 11:16 am)
Nice list!
For those interested in submitted to CSS Galleries you should check out: Link [www.cssgallerylist.com] - it’s a similar idea to this post but is monitored so that links don’t become inactive. Just a heads up :)
okan özkan (March 6th, 2008, 6:13 am)
Very nice gallaries. Thanks.
Aznoc (March 27th, 2008, 9:26 pm)
You missed one! Link [cssfuel.com]
Woo (April 8th, 2008, 5:45 am)
Here is another one.
Link [designgrabs.com]
This one is a cross between delicious and a css gallery. It allows you to create an account and then bookmark any great designs you come across.
The best designs make it to the main gallery. They also have a handy bookmarklet to make it easy to bookmark sites.
MonkeyPong.com (April 20th, 2008, 5:25 pm)
Hey, just to let you know that CSSGreen and CSS Design Yorkshire are not valid anymore.
Jess (April 27th, 2008, 5:59 am)
Thanks for the list! Here’s another: Link [www.cssdivine.com]
:-: S€zæR -> (May 3rd, 2008, 11:52 am)
CSS “Cascading Style Sheets” LessoNs - WeB DesigN LessoN - - Web site : Link [WWW.css-lessons.ucoz.com]
edwin (May 7th, 2008, 11:28 pm)
very usefull, thanks
Here is another list with Link [www.edwinsdesignlab.be]
alex (May 11th, 2008, 8:22 am)
Another link for the list Link [www.starpays.com] ?