30 Great Website Designs (Part1)

March 23, 2007 by Oli · 70 Comments 

Today we have a bit of Friday-inspiration for you, we have selected 30 great standards compliant web designs. If you missed our 30 Dirty designs, check those out as well. Otherwise enjoy the eye-candy…




Expression Engine

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King of The Blues

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Critbuns

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Trillian Astra

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Hedonista

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Ungarbage

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Ellis Lab

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Klimawahl

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Electric Pulp

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Simplebits

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Business Paper

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Virb

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Car Freaks

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The Curtis

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Tijs Vrolix

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University of the West Indies

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Think

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Daily GigaOm

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Audi Car Lotto

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Net Success

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Eurovision Song Contest

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The Brits

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Erskine Design

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Stephano

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AJ Miles

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Arts of the Month

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Joyent

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Coda

282.jpg

The Consult

292.jpg

Simon Wiffen

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About Oli
Oliver Dale runs Kooc Media, A UK-Based web company which specialises in Web Apps, Online Communities, Wordpress Tutorials & Wordpress Plugins.

Comments

70 Responses to “30 Great Website Designs (Part1)”
  1. Espenhh - http://hoppetau.no says:
    March 23, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    Great list. Inspiration is allways nice!

    Another great list like this one:
    50 Beautiful CSS-based web designs [http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/12/19/50-beautiful-css-based-web-designs-in-2006/]

  2. e_cz - http://www.welldonesites.com says:
    March 23, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Nice selection, gave a digg…

  3. free tv monkey - http://freetube.us.tc says:
    March 24, 2007 at 8:47 am

    digg + 1.. if you do some css designs, i’ll subscribe to your rss!

  4. Oli - http://tutorialblog.org says:
    March 24, 2007 at 9:20 am

    Michael J, why dont you share a site that you think IS impressive then ?

  5. mary - says:
    March 24, 2007 at 9:41 am

    looks like we have a code igniter fan here

  6. Bastiaan - http://www.saltwatermonkey.com says:
    March 24, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Thanx i really needed such a list for my project today. I especially like the joyent site.
    Keep them coming.

  7. John - says:
    March 24, 2007 at 10:19 am

    I would love to see some analysis of the design for each one of the 30 greatest designs. That’s a very bold statement.

    Don’t be mistaken, Web and Graphic design IS NOT about eye candy. That’s ridiculous. It’s about communicating effectively with your viewers and visitors.

    You can not become a good designer by osmosis alone.

    Start with the fundimentals: I suggest Primer of Visual Literacy by Donis A. Dondis . The book throws in Color Theory, too.

  8. Ric - says:
    March 24, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Obviously “great” is a subjective term in this context, and while the sites shown up there are all nice enough looking, and a couple very nice looking, I don’t see the design of any of them being anything more than what you could pick up from a html template site. There is not a single design in this list that is even touching on “innovative” or “unique” and that, unfortunately, is the problem.

    We’ve all seen lists like this before and this adds nothing but to bulk out the already vast pages listing “the best of..” that litter the blogosphere.

    I would rename this page to “30 extremely average designs” and point people to your other entry about “dirty designs” – http://tutorialblog.org/30-dirty-designs/ – some of which at least look like they have not come from a standardised template.

  9. Simon North - http://thecomputingexpert.wordpress.com/ says:
    March 24, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Great sites, I wish I could design sites as good as these. I agree with Ric saying that these sites could well be mistaken for template you can buy from template monster, but I always go to HTML template sites for inspiration. They are still very nice looking sites, and I’m looking forward to the new version of Trillian.

  10. Motorcycle Guy - http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/ says:
    March 24, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    I like the Trillian website best. In my opinion it is the cleanest of those designs.

  11. Phil S - says:
    March 24, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    I can’t believe you listed trillian astra. The site looks like crap on my widescreen 14 inch display.

  12. Simon Douglas - says:
    March 24, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    Some interesting suggestions. Can’t say I agree with the Eurovision Song Contest, far too busy a design. That and the fact that the competition is complete crap!

  13. Hey Banner Banner - http://www.heybannerbanner.com says:
    March 24, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    i like simplicity.

  14. Just Wu It - http://justwuit.com says:
    March 25, 2007 at 11:55 am

    Very Nice list. Thanks.

  15. Alain De Bruyne - http://www.diversito.eu says:
    March 25, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Nice but you have not seen mine :)

  16. Zia - http://www.ziarezvi.com says:
    March 25, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    Thanks, a great selection…

    www.ziarezvi.com

  17. Laurens - http://www.tndmedia.nl says:
    March 26, 2007 at 7:01 am

    great collection!

  18. Sean - http://sean-dinner.com/blog says:
    March 26, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Wow, those sites are amazing! I’m still working on looking at them all. Awesome list and great sites for inspiration.

  19. Abdullah Ibrahim - http://www.tutorialsgarden.com/ says:
    March 27, 2007 at 6:20 am

    Only a few of them are worth seeing, most are quite usual css websites.

  20. shallowbay_37 - says:
    March 27, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Nick has a very good point. The ColdFusion logo is as close to a complete copy as it gets. CarFreaks should definitely think about changing it so they don’t get sued.

  21. fab - http://www.webdesign-inspiration.com says:
    April 10, 2007 at 9:42 am

    Thanks for sharing so nice websites :)

    I displaied some of them on my website ;)

    thanks

  22. alex - http://ya.ru/ says:
    April 11, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    hi nice site.

  23. the lonely guy - says:
    May 7, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    I am so bored with the net. It’s either self indulgent wankery or banal lists. Great design is dead. It’s like fashion – it keeps eating itself and spewing out derivative rubbish and calling it cutting edge.

  24. Alfons - says:
    May 11, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    great examples, great websites, thanks for collecting! :-)

  25. Milo - says:
    June 6, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    What’s so standards-compliant about these sites? CritBuns (the third one down, no less) is completely un-usable without images because of the lack of ALT text on the images.

    Pretty pictures, sure. But be careful what you emulate.

  26. Milo - says:
    June 6, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    Did you actually visit the “Stephano” site? Wow. Just, wow.

  27. Web Banner Ad Design - http://www.the-design-guru.com says:
    June 9, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Its Great List – Excellent and professional look!

  28. robert - http://ya.ru/ says:
    June 14, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    hi all.

  29. webdesigner - http://www.empoweradvertising.com says:
    July 6, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    Great eyecandy!

  30. blogshowoff - http://www.blogshowoff.com says:
    July 31, 2007 at 7:54 am

    so coool ……..

  31. suzie - http://www.tutsbuzz.com says:
    August 18, 2007 at 4:05 am

    you are a great collector ;) , thanks…

  32. shaz - http://www.miraztutorials.com says:
    September 22, 2007 at 11:35 am

    i love these designs wish i could do that, maybe someday

  33. Alexis Rudnick - http://www.iconicgroup.ca says:
    September 27, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    Great selection of simplicity, I’ll be back. Bookmarked in fact…

  34. cam balkon - http://www.ozgunbalkon.com says:
    October 2, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    very nice

  35. jennifer - http://www.bilgiland.com says:
    October 11, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    you are a great collector ;) , thanks…

  36. lisa - http://www.antalyaticaret.org says:
    October 11, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    i just say wow…

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    October 18, 2007 at 7:23 pm

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    October 18, 2007 at 7:24 pm

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  41. Bram - http://www.mediafloor.nl says:
    October 26, 2007 at 9:21 am

    Webdesign that lasts. I like all these designs.

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    October 29, 2007 at 5:56 am

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    November 7, 2007 at 4:20 pm

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  45. Web design AJAX - https://ooyes.net says:
    November 13, 2007 at 8:31 am

    Awesome! Very impressive and influential to see someone take so much time of their own to give this to all web designers. Thanks!

  46. Web design Bulgaria - https://ooyes.net says:
    November 13, 2007 at 8:32 am

    nice!

  47. Sriram - says:
    November 19, 2007 at 10:22 am

    Great collection!

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