Cool!!!

Some nice sites. Its interesting to see how many use only a single column for their main content and how many who have lots of columns.

Just out of interest how do you go about finding the sites that you use for your lists? Are they just sites that you happen to know of already or do you go to gallery sites looking for good designs?

I really like these articles. They are so inspirational, but they make me feel like ass in comparison. :p

Fab resource!

A lot of my Link [z6.co.uk] follow the KISS rule and mainly revolve around 1 master area.
It’s the cleanest, easiest way to design.

I like simplicity!

So many designers that I know, doesn’t like simple layouts, because they think it’s boring and ugly…

Sometimes it’s harder than create complex layouts… You need to know where and when white space is the better choice.

guys at digitalweb don’t have a feed, 2007? sooo lame

If it is simplicity with style your after then a link posted on one of your earlier posts should surely be up there. Link [www.nypocreative.co.uk]. Less is more.

Great list. I am in a continuous process of revisions in an aim to find the perfect simplicity. I am not there yet but this should help a lot.

Very true! It’s more tough that one could imagine to make something very simple and yet come up with an excellent design. Your article has some nice looking website and inspires me to follow their approach.

Thank you for the list!

I love clean design. As a multimedia/graphic designer I have been inclined to learn Flash in the past few years. Taking a look at where the web is going, ie Web 2.0 I feel flash based websites are going to be ancient history except for certain exceptions. Anyone else feel the same way? Let me know.

Agreed - simple is better. I’ve tried to balance an inviting design and the presentation of content on my blog using the concept of “keeping it as simple as possible.”

Link [www.badslacks.com]

I really like the PDF file version for this post. I printed it out and put it in page protectors in a binder. I find that I can flip through the binder and look as designs and get ideas faster than surfing lots of sites. I also put my own comments on the printouts. Can you make PDFs of the other posts that you have done on website design? The 4 you have listed below the introduction text would be great. Your site is great, keep up the good work.

I like my firms site (very simple): Link [www.pendergraphics.com]

Awesome list - one more for keeping it simple: Link [www.seventhvision.com.au]

May be u can also make a list of complicated web site, that u should not follow. :D

there’s some damn nice sites there, maybe one day I’ll actually manage to make a site as nice

also worth mentioning would be bloobseven.net

i’ve seen couple of the designs presented here also at open source design sites - i guess here are the original ones (the designers who created layouts for open source..).

Thanks for this great list!

As always, I love your lists and this one is superb. Insired!

wow the famous “KISS” in web design, it interests to me.

greetings!

Some people are saying that simple design is boring… well simple design can be boring… but I also think simple design is the key if you want a website that works for your business… a very often a complicated design can work against your business… just my opinion :)

Wow, i could certainly use these techniques of web 2.0 in my web designing. Nice article

Please add my site also in sutable category

Awesome!

Great, i love minimalistic designs, can’t help it

Everything is so simple. I love it. :)

Excellent Usability and Fantastic User Interface.

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I like most of them. I do not like Apples site. It appears simple but after using it, it is pretty terrible. Most of the time you dont know what section you are under as each tab is a whole different site in itself. But the idea is great. I like simple Link [www.arcticsoft.net]

If anyone has ever used Apple’s “iWork” application, many of these layouts look rather familiar. Most could have been designed in iWork, just by using the templates for the basic layout.

More Inspiration! Thanks. Just found this after looking at your new list. The only problem with these lovely designs is that it makes me want to go and re-design mine all the time.

Thanks for the include! Can’t believe I’m on a list with some of these designers!

Outstanding post. These are all excellent designs. Certainly a good mixture of text and graphics. I am certainly learning a lot from these designs, and as we like to say imitation is a sincerest form of flattery.

Quite a collection here. I have also wanted to make good CSS designs but I am just moving to it.

Good Article, but:

Would this make my site too complicated?
I’m not trying to spam, I just have made it recently and have no idea.

Thanks anyways, Nathan

Great designs!

One of my favourite Link [www.abacusdatasys.com]

assume collection……. but ll try to do better than u…. its challenge!!!!!!!!!!!1

simple is cool. and your list is quite inspiring!

When I do need a BIG changeover for my website, this is the place I definitely will come for inspiration! Excellent picks!! :P

oooh some lovely wee designs in here, i like the darker ones they seem more elegant somehow. When I need a revamp or design inspiration, these are the types of blogs i like to check out thanks smashing magazine!!

where is darinfireball.net ?

Hey, fantastic list of sites. So simple and elegant :)

One site that I find really simple and good looking but isn’t listed here is Link [www.pixelshell.com] — check it out.

So simple means white and boring?

Did any one else notice that Link [whiteimage.com]
lifted / stole / copied their design from
Link [www.iconshoppe.com]

Bare-knuckle simplicity - gone too far? Link [smpl.se]

the link to the email advertising site might have triggered your burial on digg

You know, for a post about KISS web design, this site looks a LOT better once I blocked all the &^&%&ing advertising!!

Maybe it would be a good idea to learn your own lessons, perhaps :)

I am looking at seeing some designs that use 50/50 spacing for layout, I would say something similar to the idea of how a book would display its conent

Nice article but I disagree a wee bit, simple is good for a lot of sites, yes. take a look at the apple store, its not simple, take a look at any big e-commerce store, ebay, dell the list is endless, most of the sites you show are non-commercial blogs etc, while the web 2 style look works for them, it simply work quite work that way with e-commerce sites, where conversion and design are king.

I think that keeping the design clean & simple is the best for your website design.

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Great designs!

Simple, clean design is an excellent idea for a great looking website.

You dont want anything too fancy otherwise you distract your readers. I love the examples in this post.

I admire 32. website, nice and i am going to use it . thanks!
Link [frengly.com]

I absolutely love springloops.com. Another one of my favorites is Link [ryanharrisdesign.com]