9 great sites for web design inspiration
Here are nine sites to inspire you when you’re stuck on your website design. You’ll be amazed (and possibly depressed) at the number of beautiful sites around.
1. Awwwards
Awwwards honors the top designers from around the web. Their ‘site of the day’ is reviewed by web professionals and Awwwards visitors based on four criteria: design, creativity, usability and content. You can sort the featured sites by colour or by tags (e.g. big background images).
2. siteInspire
siteInspire showcases beautiful websites and sorts them by styles (similar to Awwwards tags), types and themes.
3. ThemeForest
ThemeForest has themes and templates for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and more. If you’re looking for ideas to “borrow”, then there is plenty of design food here. Be warned: you may be tempted to shell out the $50 or so to buy something you can hack to pieces.
4. Abduzeedo (Sites of the Week)
Abduzeedo publishes a weekly collection of websites that exemplify beautiful design and functionality.
5. ThemeSurface
Need some responsive design inspiration? ThemeSurface has shared 40 examples of responsive web design.
6. The Design Inspiration
The Design Inspiration showcases examples of graphic design in a number of categories, including web design.
7. Styleboost
Styleboost has indexed over 1400 stunning websites, sorted by colours and tags. Styleboost is unique in that it includes full page screen shots of each design (e.g. here’s YAY Festival on Styleboost).
8. Web Design Showcases on Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine ran a feature where they created web design showcases for each industry.
9. InspirationTime
Inspiration Time indexes websites by colours, styles, industries and elements.
Know of any other inspiring sites? Be sure to leave a comment—we’d love to know about it!
