Bookmark Bliss: 50 sources for web design inspiration
March 6, 2007 | Comments (45) | Filed under: Web Design
When Bookmark Bliss 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.
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Nice list!
Thanks
Great article
What about SXU.HU for photos?
Great list
I actually wanted to keep stock photos and web design inspiration separate. I have a ton of bookmarks to stock photo, brushes, fonts, and other similar sites that I was hoping to writeup in a separate post eventually as well.
Nice list. There are a few I did not know about on there. Thanks.
I publish free flash templates at http://www.flashvillage.com.
Might be useful for some of you.
Its very useful resource of web design, I store it . http://www.digitalcamerabattery.org
Hi,
Thanks for including us on your list!
Its always a great feeling when you notice other people recognising your work.
Cheers mate!
Wonderful list of resources! Since moving to Wordpress, I’ve been looking for these types of resources more and more. Thanks! I’ve signed up for email updates as well.
Great list of resources. I Dugg it. Hmmmm, I wonder, how many Diggs will it take to push it to the top pages?
LOL, this post is kind of interesting actually as a Digg experiment. It’s well over a month old now, and if it had reached 84 diggs in a single day would have made the front page easily. It continues to slowly get more diggs though as more and more people find the post.
What I would love to know is whether or not Digg will promote a site to the front page if it keeps on getting Diggs, even if it is old?
If so, how many diggs does it take? I find it takes anywhere from 40 – 70 diggs to reach the main page if you can get them within 24 hours. How many does it take to do the same weeks later? I’d love to know
Great site, and very useful links.
By the way, LOVE the design. Where is it available in English (note it originates in Germany) ?
I actually translated it into english myself. There are really only a dozen or so locations with text in them that is displayed to the user, so I just used an online translator to swap em all.
i searched a long time for a list like this. thanks!
Another great resource (drupal themes): Drupal Theme Garden
Love the list! I have the worst block, it’s been going on for about a week. Let’s see if this list can take it away, so far the sites I’ve seen are really useful! Thanks.
This is really a great list and is one of the best lists of its type on the net. I just wrote an article that lists 180+ resources online for design inspiration and I linked to y our list because I found it so helpful and I wanted to share it with my user base.
Thanks.
Rachel