Wow.. awesome list, but there are also Link [] that look so beautiful and clean.

Most of these sites look great but fail on usability!

Bloody good work though.

Nice list. I can’t help but notice a lot of the sites are using the flourish/swirly style illustrations that seem so popular now.

Great!
Some sites are awesome!

Got smashed?
Really impressive designs, #15 and #23 are my fav.

Yet another fine list of designs. Great collection. All these sites though, seem to have more of an art-sy style rather than any professionalism involved with it.

I’d love to see a great list of professional designs that are attractive but still innovative.

Incoming digg, sir.

These all look very good and are creative but most of them remind me more of “Magazine Ads” than they do Website Themes…

Wow, yet another sweet list. I always wonder how Smashing Magazine gather that smashing list of things.

I loved the following to very much

Link [www.eurovision.tv]
Link [www.alexbuga.com]

I was blown away by some of the site designs. Goddamn my site is boring and uninteresting compared to those. :/

Really great work, even though accessability really isn’t WCAG 3 stars for most of them.

My favorite website right now is Link [www.studio7designs.com]

Environmental non profit north west coast feel to it.

I just finished redesigning the Broward Sheriff’s Office web site. Take a look: Link [www.sheriff.org]

Most of these are really not CLEAN, but very cluttered and busy.

Most of these also FAIL on accessibility.

Pretty, yea, most of them. But who ever MUPPET call em USABLE and CLEAN should really find a clue what USABLE and CLEAN actually means.

I’ll admit - when I saw the title on Digg, I thought “this’ll be a bunch of above average sites that I’ve somehow seem before…” But they are all terrific designs and I’ve only seen a small handful of them.

There was *something* that made me click on #18 right off the bat - I couldn’t help but notice they’re violating the new google adsense TOS by putting pics next to the ads.

Anyway… nice list - I’ll be coming back if I’m feeling a little low on inspiration.

Thanks a lot for the list. Site have truly different style but all look good.

Another very clean website : Link [www.stocktemple.com]

The Disco site was not proparly designed. Just try to mouseover the main banner, and you will see the glow that is wrong.

I think this is a pretty sweet lookin site for an old school tennis coach
Link [www.NickBollettieri.com]

PINK is the new obsession…

Yeah! That is cool! Thanx!

You mixed a lot of different styles here.
This can be useful as exercise to associate styles to different kind of project.
Thank you very much!

Really great mix :)

Alot of talent in the list. Although there is so many elements of the designs that are re-used, backgrounds, drop shadow, destressed and scratched effects, Linears Gradient, Floral swirls, Beams of Light. We are at a point in Web 2.0 / CSS based design when there are trends developing which people like and reuse. The only issue is things start looking the same for better or worse..my own site included (designed a year ago).

Great collection well done!

Impressive,

good inspiration.

Nice collection. Thanks

Great, but not so great. None of these sites are usable. :(

In what way are any of these designs ‘clean’? They’re overly-detailed, busy, and of the current trend in web design, but they’re far from clean.

Some of them look very nice :)

Not all clean. But its always inspirational to look at creative examples.

Thanks for the effort..

Darn it. My work is not eye-catching enough. Most of these makes you stop and stare.

Nice. Are most of them grabbed from Link [screenfluent.com] ?

Then u need to have look at Link [www.bpink1.com]

Great list

I think for the first time ever, i called a website beautiful, when i saw sparklette.net

The Phoenix theme over at Link [www.ndesign-studio.com] is real eye candy as well.

I know it’s being done to death right now, but I love the swirly floral patterns! A lot of nice graphic design on those sites. Unforunately, I’m a terrible designer, so these lists always give me an inferiority complex :(

Horrible………. Shhh…. don’t tell anyone “Web Design is not Graphic Design”!

Designs like these are good indication that CRASH 2.0 is approaching………

Cool list & nice post! Great designs. ;)

Hi, I’m the owner and creator of Toubeauty.com n°18

to be honnest inspiration came from
Link [www.kineda.com]
Link [summer.tnvacation.com] and of course smashmagazine the year before - thanks a lot

Great post - there definitely is an uprising of nice, clean design with bold use of colour at the minute - especially since the introduction of css. It appears designers have now realised that making content easier to access rather than putting obstacles in their way actually increased satisfaction - of course, they have to look great as well.

Check out Link [www.nypocreative.co.uk]
for a clean, no messing layout.

Good stuff there. Very inspirational.

Now these are some nice looking designs. Good job. :D

I love Smashing magazine but your taste in website design seems slightly dubious. Most of these look like they have been produced by Photoshop monkeys not Graphic Designers. There’s too much going on to captivate the viewers attention. Nice photoshop techniques but most seem poorly designed.

What a fantastic collection of web designs. Hope I can produce something of that quality one day.

My fav is stocktemple.com
It’s well designed and what beautiful use of colors! How could you go wrong!

Nice list. Good to see one of the finalists in the SEO contest in the Philippines :)

Oliver we are out of easter eggs!! Nice sites.

I need eggs. Check your laundry

I don’t care what people say. As a general rule, ‘clean’ is a pretty good descriptor. Lot’s of color! Some of these would make great inspiration for case studies.

Nice list. Although the designs look lean and impressive I don’t think they are very intuitive. They look more form friendly than function friendly.

QUOTE: “I love Smashing magazine but your taste in website design seems slightly dubious. Most of these look like they have been produced by Photoshop monkeys not Graphic Designers. There’s too much going on to captivate the viewers attention. Nice photoshop techniques but most seem poorly designed.”

I agree! It seems fairly common that people are impressed whenever they see really busy designs, which upon careful examination are just almost random shapes slapped together to make a “design”. Indeed, a lot of these seem to have been made by “Photoshop monkeys” and not graphic designers or anyone with any real talent.

Anyone could take photoshop brushes and *click click click*—an “impressive” design like above!

Oh my gawd! Swirly florals and stars and arrows and circles… So talentless. My eyes are turning to stone.

they are great

thanks. realy great sites

Este post me a parecido super excelente. Estoy totalmente de acuerdo, y como dicen en diseño menos es mas.

Salu2

Referencia del Link en mi pagina web

Um, yuck. Whoever picked these 45 websites has terrible, unsophisticated taste!

While some are not too bad, many of these are not “fresh, clean, and impressive.”

Perhaps the title of this article should have been “45 UNUSUAL website designs.” That would be more accurate.

Or better yet: “45 website designs that I like because I am ignorant.”

Um, yuck. Whoever picked these 45 websites has terrible, unsophisticated taste!

While some are not too bad, many of these are not “fresh, clean, and impressive.”

Perhaps the title of this article should have been “45 UNUSUAL website designs.” That would be more accurate.

Or better yet: “45 website designs that I like because I am ignorant.”

good wedding website!!!!

have a look: Link [ethereal.com.my]

As already said by others, another great list from SmashingMagazine. Great work in your choices - check out Link [www.seventhvision.com.au] for another clean design

While I agree that the artwork on most sites looks great, I doubt about their functionality. I think there must be defined a differences between a good artwork and a good designed website. Most of them would look great on posters and other prints, but don’t work as a website because mostly the banners takes in half of the page, or there’s too much content on them to have a decent overview.

My favori Link [www.kumsaati.net]

Very nice collection there - It is how we are trying to design several sites right now - crisp, clean and uncluttered.

Top marks for this!

What a great list. There are definitely some excellent, top-notch designers out there. Thanks for the nice shots!

Wow! That’s a great list of Fresh sites.

Funky wordpress blog with unique theme. One can see that our California-based graphic designer and webmaster in Austria have true synergy :)

Nice List… congratulation !!!

very nice works.congratulations for every designer

I would like to suggest 2 more sites to be included in this list:

Link [www.ReLogoDesign.com] - clean and impressive design
Link [www.RespiroMedia.com] - a good web 2.0 example

average sites that I’ve somehow see

Link [ubersuper.com] redesigned.

Thanks, great list :)

Hi,
cool list you have here!

Goods works :)

Verey interesting web design on more this layouts. Especialy green Urban../Thanx for infos. Richard

cool designs….inspiring

can we download some of these where?

Awesome list, and awesome sites, you can clearly see that vector-based 2.0ish style on most of them.

#15 is waaaay to awesome.

Another great list of sites.
Thanks for sharing with us

I like the design very much, clean and very creative.

Nice collection of sites.
Inspirational.

very inspiring list, wish someday my blog can be in a top list. (of anything haha)

At first glance I thought these were wordpress themes and I gasped. Still, even though they aren’t, the css designs are just damn sick. I have tried to teach myself design like this numerous times, but in the end I always end up outsourcing.

Designers are very hard to come by these days.

The pics look nice, I would say rather sweet….

I liked the picture with a girl and a butterflies - it is warm and pleasant - the idea was as I believe - winter (girl)- spring (butterflies) :)))

that are just my thoughts anyways )))

hi,

Nice list. I can’t help but notice a lot of the sites are using the flourish/swirly style illustrations that seem so popular now.

wow this is REALLY inspiring!!

This is really great!!

This site Link [www.12flores.es] is clean and elegant too

Nice design overall ..

Nice list. My favorite website is ” Urban Originals “

Wow, The Ituloy Angsulong Experience design is really amazing. Well done with this design showcase.

“luke stevens | design + consulting” realy impressive.

Not to toot my own horn, but check out. It’s still under construction - so keep in mind it’s a work in progress. Thanks.

Link [www.firesnakedesigns.net]

This showcase is a great inspiration. awesome job.

Wow, yet another sweet list. I always wonder how Smashing Magazine gather that smashing list of things.