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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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’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!

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

greetings!

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

Awesome!

Everything is so simple. I love it. :)

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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 Website Design

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.

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.

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

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

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

where is darinfireball.net ?

So simple means white and boring?

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

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

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

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 absolutely love springloops.com. Another one of my favorites is

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Nice …

I like the new designs where a picture or flash movie (700×400 i think) is used, I’ve used this on a few pages, where this photo or movie is toward the top takes up most of the space and links are underneath.