When Fuzzy Future first got started, I said that our goal was to build content that other people can use to improve their own projects. Almost every day, while I'm checking out a blog or social bookmark site like Del.icio.us or Digg, I see a post entitled something along the lines of "50 beautiful web designs" or "25 amazing wordpress templates." As a web developer and not really a web designer, I always love these posts because they're great inspiration for the next time I need to create my own template, theme, site, etc. Over the years I've managed to build up a decent bookmark list of these "inspirational" sites so I thought I would put them all in one place for other people to take advantage of as well. So, without further ado, here is my list of 50 sources for web design inspiration…A little help for us artistically challenged individuals
- The Best Designs
- Six Shooter Media's Free Templates
- 2Advanced Studios
- Andreas Viklund Free Website Templates
- Studio7Designs
- Style Grind
- Open Source Web Design
- The Web Design Inspiration Photoset
- Most Inspired
- Open Source Templates
- Templates Box
- Smashing Magazine
- CSS Beauty
- CSS Galleries
- Drupal Sites
- Open Source Web Templates
- CSS Remix
- Glenn Wolsey 10 Most Beautiful Blog Designs
- CSS Drive
- Perfection
- CSS Elite
- SyleGala
- Creative Pakistan
- The FWA
- CSS Hazard
- Beautifully Webdesign
- Unmatched Style
- CSS Import
- Light on Dark
- StyleBoost
- CSS Bloom
- Screen Fluent
- CSS Websites
- Website Design Awards
- 3point7designs
- CSS Galaxy
- Screenalicio.us
- The Dreamer
- Style Crunch
- CSS Flavor
- Inspiration King
- CSS Thesis
- Web Creme
- CSS Zen Garden
- CSS Reboot
- WebDigity
- The Pixel Creativity
- Top Wordpess Themes
- CSSClip
- Deviant Art
50+5 Bonus Sources
- 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes (smashing magazine)
- Go Drupal
- One Pixel Army
- CSS Mania
- Design Shack
Well, that's it for this round. Some of these sites offer their templates for free but others charge a fee for you to use. This list is intended to help you with your "designer's block" and give you the inspiration you need to come up with the perfect design for your next blog, community portal, social networking hub, or corporate e-commerce resource. I'd love to keep this list growing and possibly release updates on a regular basis.
Have you found this list useful? If so, show your support by subscribing to our news feed. We've posted several other entries in our Bookmark Bliss series that you might find interesting as well…
- Bookmark Bliss: 50 Sources for Web Design Inspiration
- Bookmark Bliss: The Developer Cheat Sheet Compilation
- Bookmark Bliss: 30 Web Developer Community Forums
- Bookmark Bliss: 101+ Stock Image Resources
As always, your comments are welcome and please let us know of any sites we might have missed.