If you’re anything like me, creativity doesn’t come easily. The truth is we could all use some design inspiration from time to time. Thankfully, there’s plenty of resources for us to find inspiration in. Here’s a list of sites that have useful for me when I need to get the creative juices a-flowing.
- DesignerSide – Web Design Inspiration, photoshop tutorials, logo design and more.
- CSS Vault
- Favourite Website Awards
- CSS Reboot
- CSS Zen Garden – The beauty of CSS design. The Zen Garden shows what’s possible with a CSS based design. This site is responsible for turning me on to CSS based designs. Very inspirational.
- HOW Magazine
- Web Standards Awards
- 35 Sexiest Designed Websites You’ve Forgotten About
- Web Pages That Suck – Good examples of what not to do.
- Screenspire – This my favorite site for design inspiration. Not only do they have thousands of inspirational designs, you can view the screenshot of each site which makes it very easy to browse through the huge collection.
- Design Shack
- CSS Beauty
- CSS Import
- W3C Compliant Sites
- Liquid Designs
- Web Creme
- Stylegala – Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.