Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out
Whether you’re suffering from designer’s block, or just want to see what your competition is up to, design galleries are an excellent tool. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of them available, and we’ve found 100 of the best.
Searchable
If you’re looking for a specific color, style, or genre, check out these organized and searchable galleries.
- CSS Gallery: Search this gallery by color, content, date, and more.
- CSS Warfare: On CSS Warfare, you can find and rank sites in a number of different categories.
- Design Grabs: Design Grabs features loads of different categories and tags.
- The Daily Slurp: This gallery has more than 15,000 sites to check out, searchable by color.
- CSS Vault: On CSS Vault, you’ll find monthly archives from 2003 to the present.
- CSS Mania: CSS Mania offers a gallery with more than 9,500 sites, all organized by topics.
- Design Creme: Find some of the best CSS and Flash sites online, searchable by category, tag, and engine.
- CSS Impress: Find exactly what you’re looking for in this site with easy categories and a great search function.
- DesignFlavr: DesignFlavr is ultra-organized, with colors, categories, rankings, and more.
- The Designed Tree: It’s easy to find designs in all sorts of categories on this site.
- InspirationKing: InspirationKing focuses on high quality sites, and offers an easy way to find them.
- One Star Gallery: In the One Star Gallery, you’ll find awesome sites categorized by color.
- CSS Daddy: The designs on this site are heavily tagged and easy to search.
- CSS Leak: Great design is easy to find on this site with color, rankings, and more.
- Web Design Gallery: Search the archives of this site by color and more.
- Designs Creme: On this site, you’ll find awesome designs and all sorts of colors and genres.
- Crossmind: Find designs by colors, elements, layout, type, and more.
- Design Shack: On Design Shack, you can find designs based on color, category, or layout, so you’re sure to find exactly what you’re looking for.
40+ Carousel Home Page Designs
The home page is some of the most valuable real estate on a web site. For many web sites it is still the primary point of entry for the majority of visitors.
Consequently, web site owners want to cram as much enticing content on to the home page in order to attract visitors into the site.
Because of this, the carousel has become a very popular way to showcase multiple pieces of featured content within a fixed promotional area.
Epicurious has a typical home page carousel
I thought it would be interesting to showcase a variety of home page carousel designs to see what common themes emerged and also what different approaches designers took.
