30+ Sites To Help Inspire Your Designs

 By 
Sean P. Aune
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30+ Sites To Help Inspire Your Designs
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Sometimes you simply can't come up with a concept for a new site, and staring at the empty screen for hours doesn't help you one bit. What follows is a collection of 30+ sites that will provide hundreds of ideas to help inspire you.

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AndyBudd.com - A collection of several hundred sites with impressive CSS designs.

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BestWebGallery.com - A large collection of stylish pages for you to browse and get inspired.

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ColourLovers.com - A site that lets users put color sets together and inspire other designers to use them.

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CSSBased.com - Over 1,500 CSS based sites, dived bcategories or tags.

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CSSBeauty.com - Features news and announcements as well as monthly site galleries dating back to May 2004.

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CSSClip.com - Over 1,700 sites for you to rate and comment on. Narrow your browsing by color.

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CSSCollection.com - Over 3,000 sites, all built with CSS, to inspire you.

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CCSDump.com - Samples are tagged by colors, number of columns and so on. Rate them and look up the top rated.

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CSSElite.com - Over 600 site samples for you browse and see if anything inspires you.

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CSSImport.com - A collection of over 2,000 design samples for you to look through and see if anything strikes your fancy.

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CSSLiquid.com - A site dedicated to liquid and elastic CSS designs.

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CSSReboot.com - A site to submit your latest CSS designs and allow others to vote on them a'la Digg style. Take a look around and see if something inspires you.

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CSSRemix.com - Over 1,100 sites have been submitted, vote on the one's you like best, or just browse them all.

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CSSVault.com - Collecting sites that represent the best of the web since November of 2003.

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CSSZenGarden.com - A site demonstrating what you can do with CSS just by changing the style sheet, but none of the coding.

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DesignByGrid.com - A fairly new site with only about 70+ sites in their archive so far, but also has articles, tutorials and more.

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DesignFloat.com - A Digg-style site for designers to vote on stories, share logos and see what others think, or get your own ideas.

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DesignMeltdown.com - A gallery of sites tagged by colors, design, style of site; it also features solutions to common design problems.

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DesignShack.co.uk - Over 700 sites in their gallery that you can look up by color, layout, type of site, or simply browse.

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DesignSnack.com - Over 500 designs that you can browse, comment on, and vote for.

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LightOnDark.com - A site focusing strictly on darker designs with light text.

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LogoPond.com - A gallery of logos that is sure to inspire any designer.

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LogoSauce.com - A place to share your logos, enter contests and, well, get inspired.

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MostInspired.com - An aggregator for multiple design inspiration sites.

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OSWD.org - A collection of over 2,000+ open source web designs. Download for use, or find inspiration in so many designs.

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Screenalicious.com - Over 9,400 samples for you to browse, vote, and comment on.

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TheBestDesigns.com - Tons of sites added to the gallery, tagged by their features such as dark, texture, and more.

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TheFWA.com - Favorite Website Awards site with fave sites of the day, week, month, an people's choice.

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WebCreme.com - A collection of over 2,300 sites, tagged by colors to easily find the color schemes you're looking for.

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WPThemesFree.com - Over 1,200 WordPress themes to browse through; search by number of columns, color, or theme.

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