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10 great articles on website inspiration

September 9, 2008

When I put together the resources for my series on Irresistible Websites, I looked through hundreds of sites, CSS Galleries, designers’ portfolios and blog articles for ideas. This was a whole lot easier than it may sound, because great web design is one of my passions. It was also very gratifying to see all of the traffic that the series generated for my site. I want to thank everyone who visited, subscribed, commented and linked to articles in the series, and indeed on my blog overall in the three months that it’s been in existence.

Moving onto the purpose of this post. One of the things which has struck me over the past few weeks is the number of great articles by fellow designers which similarly feature inspiring website designs. I have put together a list of ten of the best resources published on design blogs in recent months.

40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box | Smashing Magazine
Web Design: Black Layouts | Abuzeedo
When Nature Calls, Nature Inspired Websites | Inspiredology
20 Beautiful Dark Websites to get you Inspired | designflavr
32 Inspiring Web Designs | Fuel Your Creativity
40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008 | CrazyLeaf Design
Best of CSS Design 2007 | Web Designer Wall
Get web design ideas & inspiration from other designs – Brown | Design Shard
25 Incredibly Artistic Websites | Vandelay Design
101 Awesome Portfolio Sites | Designm.ag

Have you seen a blog article which you think should be included on the list? Let me know by adding your suggestion in the comments section below.

Steven Snell on September 9th, 2008 5:12 pm

Thanks for the links Tracey!

Steven Snell’s last blog post … Huge Collection of Adobe Illustrator Resources
Max | Design Shard on September 9th, 2008 8:22 pm

Thanks for including my recent article on inspiration and ideas, hope it can be useful to every one.
Neil on September 10th, 2008 3:59 am

great links! the Best of CSS Design 2007 is a good resource. its really important to know about CSS website design nowadays
Tracey Grady on September 10th, 2008 5:43 am

Steven and Max:
You’re most welcome!

target ict:
Thanks for your feedback. You’re right, it’s now essential to understand CSS when designing for the web.
Jennifer on September 11th, 2008 8:04 am

There’s too much inspiration!!! My head is going to explode! :)

I’d love to have one day per week just to go through all these sites in depth. I feel like I’m developing ADD because there is just so much to look at and it feels like so little time. That’s why I love these lists though. Thanks!
Rachel on September 11th, 2008 9:36 am

Great post. Want your head to explode again, here is an article with 180 Design Inspiration Showcases

Thanks.
Webdesign Meppel on September 11th, 2008 4:20 pm

Great list! I already knew some of them but the others are also great! Thanks a lot!
Tracey Grady on September 12th, 2008 1:23 am

Jennifer:
Exploding heads was not the sort of impact I had expected to create when I started this blog! I hope yours stays intact. It’s so true that there’s a lot of info overload around – that’s why I like to keep my blog lists short, no longer than 10 or 15, usually.
Rachel:
Thanks for your feedback, and the link. That’s a very comprehensive article.
Meppel:
I’m glad you’ve found some new and inspiring articles from the post.
Danh ba web 2.0 on October 15th, 2008 4:08 am

Thanks for great list !