Web Design Inspiration Curated

bigomaha.com

This is a great simple conference website design. Big graphics and nice typography make this a winner.

joelongstreet.com

Submitted by Joe Longstreet (@joeLongstreet), here's what he had to say: JoeLongstreet.com is the personal portfolio site of a Kansas City web and graphic designer named Joe Longstreet. Really interesting site here. I love the illustrative quality and imagery used on...

tweetizen.com

Submitted by Jason Ritz, here's what they had to say: Clean, well laid out site - and super fast twitter grouping and embedding. Nice looking web app. Clean layout with minimal flashiness. There are a couple of elements like the big button looking thing over the left...

markupandstyle.org

Nice layout for a tumblr site. The wood plank background and semi-transparent boxes are really well done.

wikirank.com

Really clever idea and it's really well executed to boo. Nice simple layout and nice striking colors make up a great interface.

cosmicdiary.org

Submitted to us by the folks at cosmicdiary.org: One of the Cornerstone projects of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the Cosmic Dairy is not just about astrono my, but more what it is like to be an astronomer.The Cosmic Diary is a collection of blogs which...

pixelluxe.com

Submitted by Marcus Hodges, here's what he had to say: My self-promotion website. I've spent the last month writing copy to toot my own horn, so I'll save it for someone else this time, but I will say I'm pretty stoked about it. This website looks interesting to me, I...

thisisbrandnew.com

Pretty cool new look for Brandnew. I like the background and "handmade" feel to it. I HATE that the video just starts playing, I know they do a lot of motion/video stuff but man that was loud when it started.

moma.org

This site turns the traditional design pattern of a website around, having the header type section in the footer area is unique. I'm not sure it really works from a usability standpoint. I'd like to see some user studies on this site for sure. Spend some time on the...

newlookmedia.com

Pretty nice, clean looking site design. I like all the individual elements of this layout, nice detail work. I'm never a fan of fully justified pragraph blocks like they use in the footer area, but that's awfully nit-picky of me.

madebyelephant.com (redesign)

New website redesign for Made By Elephant (we posted the previous version), this is Tim Van Damme's company you can follow him on twitter here @maxvoltar. I like the redesign, it's simple and to the point, yet original. I like how he did the "hire us" form as well.

danieloliver.co.uk

Cool looking minimal website design. I like the static header effect on this site.

sacjazz.com

Really fun looking site design. It has the 3D edge/paper fold elements going on too - that's definitely a trend. I like the loud colors and all the display text really stands out from the colors. It's almost too loud to look at and it's very large feeling, but I like...

justquoted.com

Submitted by Rade Joksimovic, here's what they had to say: We are small but very inspired community with one sole purpose: to inspire by sharing the most Inspirational quotes we found. I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to quotes by famous people (i'm a nerd in general...

beta.w3.org

Found via post on: 456bereastreet.com On March 20th the W3C released a new beta design of their website, they have some pretty big goals and targets for the re-design, you can see them all here. They really want some feedback on the new design, I would say the more...

dustinbrewer.com

This is a bit more of a "traditional" style of web designer portfolio type website, and it's done really well here. The navigation is clear and looks like buttons, no confusion there. It has a nice center piece on the home page with the easel and website sketch...

cabedge.com

Another minimal type design. This one has a dark background, black but not quite. I quite like the "Methods, Results, Resources" navigation scheme. Make sure and check out the portfolio, they use a nifty effect to display each work sample as you scroll down the page -...

tweetbots.com

Submitted by Adam Stacoviak, here's what he had to say: Tweetbots is a web service that extends Twitter to let you control and automate Twitter using bots like: DM-tweet, feed-tweet, auto-follow and more to come. Feel free to suggest a bot. If we like your idea it...

uptrending.com

Submitted by Andy Brewer (@uptrending), here's what he had to say: UpTrending is an Internet marketing agency in Palo Alto, CA. We specialize in SEO, Ruby on Rails, Usability, Email Marketing and Web Analytics services. This is a redesign. I think it's a great upgrade...

hashrocket.com

This site is using a fixed/static (whatever you call it) footer. It has a very large logo placed there. I think it interferes a bit too much with the content. That combined with the effect of having the static footer makes me focus on the footer area more than I need...