I love css galleries because of the following reasons:
1. I can admire other peoples work
2. I can dream about the day that one of my designs will be up there
3. I can find inspiration in other people's work
Therefore I hate css galleries with lowsy search options or bad browsing categories or with a preview of one corner of the page instead of the preview of whole page...
And because of all that I made this list of the best css galleries including nice thumb previews and nice browsing options.
1. CSSMania.com
This is the one that I have already wrote about... It has nice design, nice preview thumbs and interesting category organisations. You can even browse gallery by home country of the designer...
2. CSSDrive.com
Browse by the layout (two-column, three-column, mixed cols and rows) or by the look (clean&clear, dark or black, high contrast, corporate, unconventional etc.)
3. CSSHeaven.com
Not to big, but very cute css gallery. You can browse by categories, by month of upload or by search option.
CSS gallery from my homeland Croatia so the web sites uploaded are also from Croatia... Its nice to see how we are developing web 2.0 and modern CSS design...
5. Screenalicio.us
Definitaley one of the best css galleries online. Beside 9000 added web sites, this gallery offers color scheme of every web site in it which is very usefull if you can't decide which color scheme to use for your web site. Only minus is that the web site are not categorized. You can search by keywords or go page by page... Hope that they will change this eventually...
6. CSSElite.com
You can browse it by 9 categories or by month or go page by page... Plus is that it's easily scanable, but big minus is that you can't know how many pages there are to the end. I don't know about you, but thats very annoying to me...
8. CSSGalerie.com
As their web masters wrote - just a galerie, thats exactly what it is... simply and nice css gallery with a few categories and new refreshing designs which you can't find in other galleries since this is (I think) french css gallery...
9. CSSDump.com
It does look like a dump, but a modern one... It's dark with a lot of colorfull "trash" which can easily be scaned. Browsing is available by tag cloud on the bottom of the page, or by pages... Minus is (again) that I don't know on which page I am and how much to the end...
10. CSS11.com
They say: "Nothing, but nothing, but kick-ass sites", I say: "I love -filterbytag- menu"...
11. CSSNature.org
It's all about nature here... So, there is a finally one themed css galleries. All the designs and web sites are based on nature... If you love nature, you'll love this gallery...
12. CSSdesignyorkshire.com
As simple as it can be... You have year 2006 and year 2007 and all the web sites from the year you choose on one page... It can't get simpler than that... Can it?
13. CSSgalerie.net
And here is a one Czech gallery... And it's quite nice... 349 web sites at this moment... Interesting to see what my neighbours are doing :D
14. CSSReboot
I can not miss to mention this CSS reboot event with extraordinary gallery. Don't miss it!
15. CSSBlue
Australian CSS Design & Inspiration - nice categories, nice design and easy to scan... Love it!
Off course, there is more of them, and more of them are being "born" every day, but these are the ones that I like to glance to... But, if you didn't had enough and want more, go to the list of 89 css galleries
CONCLUSION: My definite favs are CSSMania.com and Screenalicio.us, but if you have made a great template and want to promote your web design skills then add your webpage to as much as css galleries as possible...
2 komentari:
Hey there, this is Garrett from CSS Dump. Thanks for the feature, appreciated for your comment too. We have had a lot of bad comments about the navigation, and I can understand. The layout originally didn't have half of the things on there, so we had to build on top of that.
If you could suggest anything, that'd be great. We are making a new version as we speak, so anything and everything is appreciated.
Good Luck!
Well Garrett, thanks for the comment.
It's really nice to know that you pay attention to what users want and need.
Simple navigation under or above the gallery with page numbers will be quite sufficient to improve the navigation thru the site.
Best regards :-)
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