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
