Beautiful websites' designs, but not designers' showcases

Question

hi,

to get some inspiration in the design of a web site, i often google something like "most beautiful website designs" or "best css designs". But each time you have a page referencing nice designs (like http://www.sitesketch101.com/beautiful-websites), it is always a showcase design and mostly from a design agency. Ok, but this is always a static point of view.

I am looking for a page referencing designs concerning active and dynamic pages, designs concerning websites that you can interact with. Keeping a design beautiful while it presents you the data you are looking for is another challenge.

Any advices to where i can find those, or even examples that stroke you in the pas are welcome.

Answer 1

Look into the various sites that sell templates.

for example,
http://snowcovered.com
http://www.joomla24.com/

Answer 2

Have you gone to Smashing Magazine? Specifically check the Showcases section. Here is one titled Corporate Website Design, which looks promising.

Answer 3

if you want to see beautiful website than i guess you must follow zen http://www.csszengarden.com/. They also have a book CSS Zen Garden. Which discuss in detail about these designs.

Answer 4

Probably DeviantArt is the best choice to search for concepts.

Answer 5

Website Inspiration

http://bestwebgallery.com/

http://www.boxedcss.com/

http://creattica.com/

http://cssbased.com/

http://www.cssbeauty.com/

http://www.cssimpress.com/

http://www.css-website.com/

http://www.cssburst.com/

http://www.cssheaven.com/

http://cssmania.com/

http://www.cssreboot.com/

http://www.alvit.de/css-showcase/

http://www.csselite.com/

http://cssline.com/

http://www.designflavr.com/

http://www.dailyslurp.com/

http://www.w3csites.com/

http://www.webcreme.com/

http://herohousing.org/UBBT/

http://patterntap.com/

Answer 6

Hi. My two favorites are:

• http://www.bestcssvault.com/ (used to be just 'cssvault.com' I believe, but that site seems to be permanently down)
• cssdrive.com

You can find a lot of inspiration at these. I like to browse the great designs in the galleries, and clicking on the pic or link takes you to the actual site, where you can "interact" 'til your heart's content :)