For those who don't know, I'm also the guy behind Best Web Gallery and N.Design Studio. In 2006, I started Best Web Gallery as a gallery site where I feature the best CSS and Flash sites. I'm glad that I started the project because it gives me the opportunity to keep my design sense up-t0-the-trend. In the past year, I've seen a lot of sites from the submissions (some are great, some are horrible). As 2007 is wrapping up, I would like to share the best design sites with you. Here is a list of 50 websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery — Best of CSS Design 2007.

Capture the Valley

Beautifully designed single page site.

Squawk Design

Impressive design by a graphic arts student, Dominik Lenk.

Holiday To Go

Love the red color applied on the tinted background.

Team Green

The torn paper and grunge effects are nicely put together. If you like my previous artistic design collection, you will like this site.

Radiant Plumbing

How can a plumbing website be so artistic (check out the header artwork)? If the contrast on the text area is higher, it would be a perfect design.

Alex Buga

Love the semi-transparent effects applied on the wood texture.

Burnett Dairy

Very cooperative, yet friendly.

Variable

Another artsy site.

Pixelmator

A Mac application site with nice icons and layout structure.

Jon Tan

Good use of web typography and grid layout.

Scrapblog

A beautiful web-app frontpage.

Marius Roosendaal

Single page portfolio site of Marius Roosendaal. Don't forget to check out both "Day" and "Night" theme.

Trale

I particularly like the details spent on the typography of Trale.

Sarah Hyland

Very well-done on the header design.

Eye Candy

Mmm yummy... both the design and chocolate bars. Another good design site powered by WordPress.

RealaSponse

Nice 2-column homepage.

Flame Digital

Very unique layout structure and nice background images throughout the site.

Tickerville

I like the design a lot, but I'm not sure if this design/style work for a financial related site.

Webstock

New Zealand's web conference website.

Cabedge

Simple, clean, and comfortable layout.

I Love Typography

A blog by John dedicated to typography.

Shylands

Simple, large bold font, great color contrast...

Superawesome

Very unique illustration style and color theme.

Happy Cog

A classic beautiful site.

Free People

One of my favorite ecommerce sites. The amount of details spent on this site is incredible.

Wish Tree

The wish/tag cloud in the background is simply creative!

Biola Undergrad

Another artsy design.

Viget Labs

Nice use of Javascript and CSS (I mean the scrolling effects).

Svenigson

Very clean and boxy layout.

Stuff and Nonsense

Site of Andy Clarke.

J R Velasco

Designed by Miguel Ripoll (one of my favorite designers). He has great sense of web typography. The layout looks very chaotic, yet the content is organized.

Explore Cascadia

One word, beautiful.

Yellow Stone Park

A very nice design within the box.

Elliot Jay Stocks

A design blog by Elliot Jay Stocks. He is a very talented designer with great personality (based on my personal conversations with him).

Freelance Switch

Good design and great content (freelance related).

Knoxville

Retro style in collage form.

Electric Pulp

I'm loving the watercolor effects.

Vivabit

I'm not a big fan of liquid design, but this is a good one.

Surfgarden

Nice and clean 2-column blog design.

Tanya Merone

Another great example of single-page site.

Matt Brett

A nice design blog by Matt Brett, he is a designer gamer.

Larissa Meek

A beautiful blog design by Larissa Meek, formerly a model, now she is an art director at AgencyNet.

Noodle Box

Nice use of color contrast.

Kineda

A blog by Terry and Tami Ng (celebrity and entertainment news).

Pod3.tv

Another nice design blog.

Kev Adamson

Another sketchy design.

Eleven3

Another retro/collage approach.

Turbo Milk

Nice icon.

Veerle's Blog

Another classic beautiful blog.

31three

Blog and design portfolio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.