Since 2007, every year I do a round up of best of CSS from Best Web Gallery (check out 07 and 08 collection). Well, it is the time of the year again — Best of CSS Design 2009. This year I've selected another 50 nicely designed web sites. Among the list, I notice a lot of them are minimalistic design with beautiful serif fonts. The grungy and sketchy styles are still strong. However, the large background is no longer as hot as in 2008, instead, texturized background is popular in 2009.
Sushi and Robots
Bobulate
A Way Back
LegiStyles
For a Beautiful Web
Black Estate
Cynosura
Mark Dearman
iA
Trent Walton
Area 17
Nosotros
Atebits
Square Space
Gap Medics
Fringe
Typographica
Book Cover Archive
Search Inside Video
Red Nose Day
Carsonified
Fajne Chlopaki
Devia
Mail Chimp
Miro
Squared Eye
Clear Left
White House
45 Royale
Work at Play
Wonderbra
Legwork studio
Surly
Project 365
72 Ave
Maxvoltar
We Heart
Jeff Finley
Elliot Jay Stocks
SimpleBits
Corking Design
Adii
Burciaga
Paravel
Jeremy Charles
Brite Revolution
Go Media
31 Three
AN idea
Mission Bicycle
NOSOTROS proudly Paraguayan! =)
And thanks for the list!
Good list, I wouldn’t call it CSS design. What’s the difference between CSS design and web design?
@Jordan Moore: He probably tries to avoid flash based sites being on the list…
Thanks for the great collection of sites! I vote for Simplebits! :)
great list very nice inspiration. Thanks
Great list! Even greater inspiration!
hmmm it seems most of them go to minimalistic direction
Great list, best selected list :)
It’s hard to be featured in bestwebgallery haha..
Thanks for these links, some of these designs are awesome! I really like the Paravel website!
Mostly good, but some those are just minimalistic for the sake of minimailism. Not because it actually works…
Wonderlist, I can’t said than this..
Great list! Very good selection!
Now this is the inspiration I’ve been looking for! I am a complete novice. I just decided to take classes to really learn how to create websites. Until now I’ve been using the limited resource that I have a available. It’s good to see some really dynamic websites for the inspiration to learn!
Thank you
Cindy
Elliot jay stokes and adii? Are you kidding me? Those are really ugly.
Nice list of CSS websites. They are the best. Thanks Nickla for sharing these.
thanks for sharing these.
I like it very much!
With out dazzling colors, most of theme looks not very atrractive;-).
Wow. Thank you for the mention. We’re actually in the middle of a “re-alignment” of sorts, but we’re so happy that the site has been so well received this year.
I’ve really enjoyed Fringe the show, and the website they have for some time, I am glad you included it!
Some of the other website don’t really fit my personal taste, but otherwise, I really enjoyed this list!
Thanks so much!
Pretty much all the sites that you can find in all other top galleries. *boring*