Have you ever had to deliver a website and you get the feeling you have no ideas left? Time runs out and you’ve searched everywhere to get ideas for this project? Well, we’ve been there, and that’s not great. So we decided to search for websites which were beautifully designed and, as you know, the best way to do this is by looking into galleries. Then we say “Why don’t we organize a full range of categories within each gallery?” So we did, and now we like to present to you 40 awesome galleries with categorized websites featuring the coolest minimal, colorful, animated, business, ecommerce, entertainment, kids, retro, illustration, cartoon and typography websites we found. So let’s get inspired! every image has a link to the website so don’t hesitate to check it!

Gallery 1: Styles Inspiration

Styles Inspiration is a quite easy to navigate website gallery. It has a minimal style and filtered categories like Awesome, Blogs, Business, Minimal, Illustration, Retro, Vector and many others so you can go and look directly what type of websites you need to get inspired. It also has a search option and the possibility to submit your website. You can receive updates via RSS to check it when new websites are included and find them on Facebook and Twitter.

Gallery 2: Creattica

The famous Creattica has a reason to be that famous. It has an amazing collection of design resources including freebies like templates, brushes, fonts, icons, PSDs, wallpapers and of course, websites for inspiration. The best part: it is updated constantly. You can find them on Facebook and Twitter. Creattica also has the registration possibility so you can check the stuff you’ve liked over time.

Gallery 3: Unmatched Style

Unmatched Style, a very organized gallery displays a featured website, there because of the votes of other users. It has a podcasts section on the left side with videos to help you design better. bellow that it has a news section showing recent updates on web design. There’s also a showcase page displaying the best websites for inspiration and you can recomend your site.

Gallery 4: FullSingle

Full Single displays a minimalist interface, which make it kind of cool, but it does not have a search option or a way to categorize websites, making it not that easy to navigate. The only way to do this is by looking the archive. One quality feature though, it is constantly updated.

Gallery 5: Strange Fruits

Strange Fruits is a minimal gallerie with a cool feature: you can sort websites according to a range of colors. In the page style you can limit your filter even more your search by selecting categories, colors and countries. For example, you can select a design portfolio, which is white-black and that’s been created in the US, and you’ll get just that. You can also register and like websites, which are stored on your account for you to check them anytime.

Gallery 6: Design Shack

With Design Shack displays more than 3.680 websites, more than 550 brand logos and almost 550 interface design elements. You can sort websites by color, but in addition, you have the options to filter websites by layout or category. When you click on a design, it will show you more info about the creator and the design, showing three different previews of the image and a rating by other users. Quite nice!

Gallery 7: Design Fridge

Designfridge is an awesome gallery with three basic parts: Articles, Inspiration and resources, and very easy to search and showcasing almost 6000 sites. You can opt to visit the website from the thumbnail, or select the tags below it to get a view of other sites like it. You can also filter the websites by style. Follow them on Twitter to get updates when new sites are included.

Gallery 8: Make Better Websites

Make Better Websites has the special characteristic it shows a full display of the website for you to get a better picture of it. It has an submit form and a showcase of the 30 most cool websites of the gallery. You can also register, follow their updates via rss, follow them on Twitter and Facebook. It is updated constantly.

Gallery 9: The Best Designs

The Best Designs is a blog showcasing greatly designed websites. It shines because of its design and the easiness of navigation. On the home page you have a preview of the websites and buttons over them to get more details and visit the website directly. The submit form ask you more than you expect but in the end, this contributes to have better sites listed.

Gallery 10: HTML 5 Awesome

HTML5 Awesome shows, as it name indicates, a high amount of website designed with HTML5. It also has the option for the users to rate the websites. They post featured sites, but those are rated not by likes, as it should be. However, the websites have great quality. You can filter by category, comment, rate, like their Facebook page and follow them on Twitter. It is updated almost every week.

Gallery 11: Web Creme

Web Creme has been featured in many blogs although it doesn’t have a great design and an easy navigation. This is mainly because it shows really cool websites and it is updated every day with almost 5 new designs. It features more tan 1.500 websites. You can suggest a website through their contact form.

Gallery 12: Best Web Gallery

Best Web Gallery allows you to submit Websites, portfolios and web resources. The thumbnail preview of every website has the option to include a comment, to preview it with more detail within the same gallery and the last option to go to the website. It features awesomely designed websites and blogs and has a page displaying the top 20 sites, rated by the community.

Gallery 13: Website Gallery

This inspirational gallery showcases high quality CSS and flash websites. As other galleries, this has a submit form, and in addition, a registering option. The gallery have more than 360 websites listed. You can follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 14: CSS Elite

CSS Elite features websites and resources. You can search, filter by category, rate, comment and submit a website. It also shows news on web design. Follow them via RSS.

Gallery 15: Egort

Egort has to main visible tabs, the upcoming and the most popular tabs. The first one showcases the recently included websites while the second features the best designed sites of the gallery. It classifies the website with three main categories: HTML, Flash and Blog. It has more than 300 sites,  and is updated with regularity. You can submit a website.

Gallery 16: CSS Line

CSS Line is a beautifully organized gallery with more than 1.400 websites. Their suggestion form is the simplest so far since you just enter the website name and nothing else. It also has a cool way to look for related websites by hovering the website thumbnail will appear some details, including the tags and colors. When you click on any of them you’ll get instantly more sites like it. It is also responsive, so you can check it in different devices. You can like their Facebook page and follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 17: CSS Mania

CSS Mania only admits websites written in XHTML, HTML5, and CSS which have an appealing design. It features more than 15.280 websites and they may be sorted by categories.You can follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 18: Design Bombs

Design Bombs allows you to filter websites by colors, and categories. It has and organized, dark layout and the option to rate and comment websites. You can submit your site and subscribe via email, RSS and follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 19: Site Inspire

Site Inspire is a minimal website gallery with organized search, follow and submitting options. The site contains over 2.300 websites sorted by styles, themes and types. Get their updates via Twitter and Facebook.

Gallery 20: cssremix

CSS Remix has a minimal layout, with no ads and no search option. The only way to show more result is by a small page counter at the bottom of the page. It has the property to show good website designs. You can follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 21: CSS Heaven

In CSS Heaven you can filter by categories and popular tags. You can submit your site and follow them via RSS. The gallery displays more than 800 websites.

Gallery 22: Moluv

Moluv is a pretty well designed website gallery, with the option to tweet every website from its thumbnail. the websites can be filtered by category and you can follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 23: The Design Inspiration

The Design Inspiration has more than 1.800 websites listed and not only shows websites, but also articles, logos illustrations, photos, patterns and fonts. There’s no visible option for submitting websites.

Gallery 24: Crazy Leaf Design

Crazy Leaf  has a fresh and minimal style, it sorts websites by categories and direct search. It also has a cool feature, showing a list with other website galleries and a submit link to them, easing life for everyone. No visible Facebook or Tweeter follow options, but you can subscribe to their updates.

Gallery 25: CSS Beauty

CSS Beauty helps you search websites with options like shuffling websites and tags. You can submit your website and learn about web design in the news section.

Gallery 26: RGB Garden

RGB Garden has a dark minimal style, showing small previews of the websites listed. You can search, filter by tags, browse by flash and CSS websites. Follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 27: Style Boost

Style Boost is an easy to navigate and very clean web gallery, very well designed and organizedr. The default page is the showcase, but you can filter websites by tags, colors and direct search. Very recommended to follow on Twitter

Gallery 28: Link Creme

Link Creme is a minimal and highly useful website gallery. You can filter by the two main categories it has (CSS and Flash), by archive, direct search and tags. Follow them via RSS.

Gallery 29: We Love WP

We Love WP shows a good collection of WordPress websites and blogs, Classifying them by theme categories and archives. You can also search for any website and submit yours.

Gallery 30: wooki

Wookies is a beautifully disegned blog that works as a website gallery. The main option to search for websites is the direct search, although you can also search by categories likes arts, best, blog, community photography and others. Follow Wookies on Twitter.

Gallery 31: One Page Love

One Page Love is a good gallery displaying one page websites, making this web gallery focus mainly in flash websites. You can search through categories, tags, and recommended pages.

Gallery 32: Beautifully Webdesign

Beautifully Webdesign showcases almost 800 websites, showing first a slider with the most relevant ones. on Fridays some news are posted for web designer to learn a little more. You can also suggest your website and follow them via Twitter.

Gallery 33: cssfreshblend

The easiest to search for websites in CSS Fresh blend is by looking at the archives on the left side, being this basically an inconvenience of almost every blog-based gallery. It has more than 1350 websites listed, and the usual option for submiting a site. You can follow them on Twitter too.

Gallery 34: cssdepot

CSS Depot not only has a cool and updated website gallery but also you can learn how to create awesome templates and websites by their CSS tutorials. You can also download CSS great templates, enjoy the top rated websites listed and search for websites through the categories on the left or by direct search. Follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 35: CSS Leak

CSS Leak has more than 2.000  websites listed. It can be explored by lists and categories and you can rate the websites but that does not give them a relevant position in the page. Be sure to follow them on Twitter.

Gallery 36: divinecss

Divine CSS shows a good collection of CSS websites and blogs. The gallery also has the option to rate and submit websites, being updated every day. You can also search for websites through the archives and the tags. Follow them on Twitter to get the best of CSS inpiration.

Gallery 37: Style Prone

Style Prone is a simple yet easy to navigate gallery, counts with almost 300 sites submitted. Search websites by top rated, tags and archives. Follow Style Prone on Twitter.

Gallery 38: Best CSS Vault

Best CSS Vault is a blog-based gallery with almost 1560 websites. The site features CSS websites and blogs with an awesome style and looks. You can submit a website and follow them on Twitter or via RSS.

Gallery 39: CSS Madness

CSS Madness is an organized gallery that allows you to search through categories like Blogs, Education, Health, Portfolios, Software and many more. Some sites are listed as the best rated. There are about 370 websites and blogs. You can of course submit a website, but there’s no social integration whatsoever.

Gallery 40: Design Flavr

This last gallery is a quite nice one. DesignFlavr allows you sort by date, rating and views. In the same home page you can change from thumbnail view to full view. You can also search for websites through categories colors and tags. Very recommended to follow on Twitter and via RSS.

Next we are going to present to you the best websites by categories like retro, illustration, typography, minimal, colorful, business, entertainment comic and animated. We hope you like this awesome collection with more that 260 websites and blogs!

Retro

Deda

Walking Wallof Words

Hash Rocket

Bob Eight Pop

Mixbits

Twelve Saturdays

Cody Cai

Tabspresso

Buses at the Brewery

Joshua Sortino

Real Mac Software

This is Tommy

Dollar Dreadful

Bimmer Stories

The Lounge

In my Bubble

Hugs for Monsters

Go Live Button

La Web Shop

Preeti Cakes

Simply Artifice

DNA Darwin

Osborne Drums

Carnivale Duvin

Vicky’s Vintage Gifts

53 Mondays

Theme Inn

Pica-pic

Pointless Corp

Undead Kit

Cabedge

Nesk

Illustration

Ray’s Lab

Kyle Steed

Ian James Cox

Veboo Labs

Librium

Susanna Ceccherini

Gorilla Coffe

The Combine 2011

The Lost Thing

FreeAgent Depot

Brad Colbow

Web Munky

Skylish

Inservio Web Solutions

Envato Zoo

Algon Editores

Steed Icons

Big Apple Hot Dogs

Amazee Labs

Tijuana Flats

Jonah Goldstein

Calobee Doodles

Dsgn Cooks

Bell Strike

3 Degrees Agency

Themes Kingdom

Festa das Comadres

CSS RD

Denise Chandler

Molecube

Get a Load of Milk

Web-Expert

Revend Danger

Tom Cooney Illustration

Schlusen

Slavik Dizajn

Typography

The Show 20

Syropia

Forefather’s Group

Synth View

Our Type

War Child

Dave Barnes

Pongathon

Simple as Milk

Lefft

The Superest

Eye Styles

Forty Seven Media

Rangus

Michael Bernard

Tim Potter

Play type

Just Dot

Warehouse Twenty One

Artcadia

Stephen Caver

SWE

Freckles And Handsome

Diego Constantino

Meet Draw Christmas

Made by Vadim

Bokche

One Fast Buffalo

YEBO Creative

Momentium

Minimal

Kids Love Jetlag

Made by Flek

Ryan McLennan

Never Bland

Kick Saints

Nexus

Theme Forest

Crane Brothers

Luan Freire Kondo

Makr

Kaas

Coo-coo Core

Paul Masarchi

Moka

Diary of a Website

Web Is Love

Disrupto

Face It

Red Pop

Keith Cakes

Agence Nomad

Bloom Hosting

Little Miss Party Planner

Meet Prajith Online

Bakken & Baeck

Interactive and Design

Ed Nacional

Cine Pocket

John Harfield

Front End 2011

Pixel Dev

Mohan Balaji

Logartis

Polar Gold

Colorful

Making Connections Everyday

Colour Pixel

Luis Cuadrado

Go to Multimedia

Cultural Solutions

Mail Bakery

Catalina Estrada

Panda Creatiu

Stone Skipper

Duir Waigh

Gojee

M-eid

Teraflex Plus

Fuzzco

Jeff Sarmiento

Alexander Zhestkov

Vijufest

Chocolaty Chandu

UFO

Frontiere Web

Bokicabo

BC film + Media

Sebcreation

Freelance Logo

Beco Digital

Pieoneers

Business

CNC

Abstraktion

Kooheji Systems

Vorsteher

Dos Entre Dos

Un Pez Vivo

Graz Secrets

One Design Company

1 minus 1

Yogi Products

Hunter’s Wine Shop

Myself DSK

Matchball

Saizen Media

Fhoke

Boela

Definitive Studio

Zoo Advertising

Rare View

Vista Suites

This is Eyeweb

MahiFX

Light CMS

Eperium

AbleBots

Monkees

Word Refuge

Oltrevista

Leviathan

Big Eye Creative

Andrew Tebbott

Mail Shape

Save my Ocean

Ecommerce

Switch to Virgin America

Gotta Get to FOWA

Gift Rocket

Indubitablee

Solo

Icon Shirt

Loja Birds

Interspire developers

Always Read the Manual

Minga Berlin

entertainment

Chichester Music Academy

The Fashion Sketch Pad

Mark Hobbs

Dukas Copy

Michelle Carrillo

Moment Skis

Somos Pocholeros

KIN

Kineda

Horiyoshi the Third

Nizo App

The List Collective

Unfold

The Brief

Nurmi Clothing

Coordenadas Cariocas

cartoon

Max Parr

wulffmorgenthaler

Fork CMS

Beetroot

We Love Web Comics

Happy Webbies

Get Active

The New Leaf

Lela

David Hellmann

Titeuf: le film

Dodgeball

Adera

Eepmon

iPole Cat

Electro Chuck

Demain J’arrete

kids

Let’s Move

Urban Explorer

Brogdale CIC

Jolena

Liz’s Book Snuggery

Quodis

Fabricio Falco

Caring is Cool

Federica Cau

Plush Toys King

Hippo App

animated

De4macja

Fashion By Feelings

Purplize

Galaxy

Youzee

Single Knight

South Mountain

HTC Sense

Too Good to Waste

Solar dos Principes

Bart

Atlantis World’s Fair

Truf Creative

Moonsquare

Seamco

Sr Burns

Roux at Parliament Square

Isle of Tune

Family of Fish

Diadao