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11 Website Design Galleries for Inspiration

Website design galleries are useful for inspiration — with your own site or if you’re just a fan of great design. They can also be good resources for finding a skilled designer.

Here is a list of website design galleries for inspiration. The galleries showcase designs, designers, and agencies, for full sites and simple landing pages. Browse the galleries with a variety of filters for types, styles, industries, colors, and more. Most of the galleries feature a large number of ecommerce designs.

FWA

FWA.

FWA.

FWA (Favorite Website Awards) is an industry Internet award and inspirational site, established in 2000. Submissions are judged on creativity, original design, content, and personality. FWA awards Site Of The Day, Site Of The Month, Mobile Of The Month, and Site Of The Year. Once a week Adobe presents The Cutting Edge award to a project that highlights new capabilities of the modern web. FWA winners are also reviewed by Google to be profiled on Google’s Creative Sandbox.

CSS Design Awards

CSS Design Awards.

CSS Design Awards.

CSS Design Awards is an international web awards platform that honors and showcases the best examples of holistic web design. CSS Design Awards evaluates submissions from solo designers, studios, and agencies to reward and promote web design work that balances creativity, functionality, and usability. Daily, monthly and yearly awards are presented.

Webdesign Inspiration

Webdesign Inspiration.

Webdesign Inspiration.

Webdesign Inspiration is a web design inspiration gallery with plenty of extras. Filter designs by industry, type, style or color, or browse with its handy multi-category filter. There are hundreds of designs in ecommerce alone. Webdesign Inspiration also features a variety of useful resources, including a blog, tips section, links to freebies for designers, design books, and a monthly top ten designs newsletter.

Awwwards

Awwwards.

Awwwards.

Awwwards is a gallery with a mission to discover, recognize, and promote the talent and effort of web designers, developers, and agencies. Sites are judged on design (40 percent), usability (30 percent), creativity (20 percent), and content (10 percent). All users can take part and vote on nominated sites. Sites are featured by day, month and year. In addition, there are awards for developer’s site of the year and agency of the year.

Siiimple

Siiimple.

Siiimple.

Siiimple is a minimalist CSS gallery. Established in 2008, it collects the best examples of design simplicity on the Internet. Siiimple features designs in more than 50 categories, including ecommerce, themes, and typography.

siteInspire

Site Inspire.

Site Inspire.

siteInspire is a website design gallery that focuses on cleanliness and simplicity without gimmicks or decoration. Browse nearly 5,000 sites by a wide variety of styles, types, subjects, and even by platforms. Websites are chosen and curated by Howells—Studio.

One Page Love

One Page Love.

One Page Love.

One Page Love is a showcase of single-page websites. Featured pages focus the user attention on the most important content, without additional services or contact pages. One Page Love features nearly 6,000 websites, as well as a blog and a list of related resources, including tutorials.

Styleboost

Styleboost.

Styleboost.

Styleboost is an interesting web design gallery with nearly 1,500 sites. Each daily highlight is accompanied by a short editorial, explaining the strengths of the design and designer. Styleboost is from Bakken & Bæck, a design and development firm in Norway. The gallery is no longer updated, but it is still a useful inspirational resource.

Land Book

Land Book.

Land Book.

Land Book is an extensive collection of product landing pages. Browse from hundreds of pages, or access a variety of related articles on landing pages. Founded in 2012, the gallery was created by three designers.

The Best Designs

The Best Designs.

The Best Designs.

The Best Designs is a curation of website designs (as well as designs for themes, deals, and even workspaces) and their designers, featured for design excellence. If you’re looking for a web designer for a project, browse through the list web designers and agencies, each of which has had at least one design featured on the site.

Pattern Tap

PatternTap.

PatternTap.

Pattern Tap is a gallery of specific designs and user interaction patterns where designers can learn what works well and why. Browse great examples of specific design elements, such as buttons, product details, video, and much more. Pattern Tap is from Zurb, a product design company.

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