10 Inspiring Small Business Websites That Set New Webdesign Standards

Now if you want to start a new business these days you sure have a few good examples on how your website should look like. Here is a roundup with our favorite small biz web designs. Have fun!

Mail Chimp

We Make Email Marketing Easy & Fun For Over 80,000 Users

Coda

Text editor + file transfer + svn + CSS + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah.Â Welcome to Coda. Grow beautiful code

Skype

Free calls, video calls and instant messaging over the internet. Plus great value calls to phones anywhere in the world

37 Signals

A Better Way To Work.Â Over 3 million people use our web-based apps to get things done the simple way

Wistia

Wistia is a platform for video marketing, sales, and collaboration.Â Share and track video with prospects, customers, and employees

Sugar Sync

Get all of your files on-the-go, instantly and securely from any Mac, PC, or mobile device.Â No extra effort. No extra baggage

The Invoice Machine

It’s beautiful and simple-to-use interface makes producing professional looking invoices a very pleasant experience

Mint

Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity

Get Satisfaction

Get Satisfaction brings customers and company employees together to make things better for everyone

Buy Sell Ads

Serving 1 billion + impressions across 1,000 websites per month

Catalin is a social media racounteur at Mostash - a small social media studio - and he's always happy to share his passion for graphic design. Catalin Zorzini has 173 posts at Inspired Mag & counting!

Comments

Nicholas Molnar July 3rd

Skype is not even close to a small business. It was sold for 1.7 Billion a few years ago, remember? To eBay, a truly huge business.
mao July 3rd

^^^^ I was thinking that ^^^^^ but they are inspiring designs though
ngassmann July 3rd

Is it just me or do the majority of the sites follow the exact same “standard” layouts. They all look great, but they are almost all very similar. Big intro box with 3 or 4 equal sized areas below. Jus’ sayin’.
Mahallo Media July 4th

But other websites are small with confidence.
widi July 4th

i think we must have a good strategy to succes in this project
Brant July 6th

Interesting post. I think you should have focused on the successful elements used across these sites.
Chelsey Gourgaud July 10th

Hum they all kind of look the same to me..
gonzoblog.nl July 14th

Why are these websites a success …?

It’s quite obvious that the layout, or the ‘looks & feel’, of these websites is very boring and almost the same. So that will not be the big factor of success, … then what is?

Hoping to hear more about your vision/thoughts about this subject? Cheers & Ciao ….
Roomba July 22nd

80,000 users – damn, that’s one small business….
mlgreen8753 July 30th

Yeah Skype is huge, but maybe it started out as a small business and went corporate. It happens often especially with smoothly run businesses that invests faithfully in advertising to grow it's customer base.
mlgreen8753 July 30th

Good for these guys. With some smart advertising, these small businesses can take there businesses to the next level.
Tyler July 31st

check out ours… http://www.atmediadesign.com

Thanks,
Tyler
Phil November 13th

It is funny that you consider some of these “Small Business” like skype … wtf?
David Sullivan December 18th

Check out ours