Here is another guest post, this time from Stu Greenham, a web designer / developer from Hull, United Kingdom and creator of the upcoming design and development blog DesignWoop.com. You can also follow Stu on Twitter – @stugreenham.
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As a Web Designer myself, I spend a lot of time trawling through tonnes and tonnes of websites looking for that spark of inspiration ensuring my design’s are fresh and adapt current web trends.
More often then not, the websites that stand out are the ones use bright, bold and effective color scheme’s and these are the ones I tend to remember. Here are 58 website’s I have picked that are all great in their own individual way. Most have used strong, bright colors, where as others have kept it minimal but in a way it still makes the outcome fantastic. Let me know your favorites…
Panelfly
LogoCranium
Custom Toronto
Clearleft
Jay Hollwood
Alessandro Cavallo
Analog
Strutta
Vuu
Maryland Security
Blue Pixel
The Mattinator
Mike Poss
Zendesk
uiDigital
Brightkite
Sprouter
Notable
Eastern Ranges
Brooklyn Fare
Trent Walton
Puma
Guerra Creativa
Oyster Design
Maurivan Luiz
Mutant Labs
LondonCreative+ (via Themeforest)
Ecoki
New to York
Contrast
365 Days of Astronomy
Glue
Notify
Colourpixel
Daguia
Flourish
Quommunication
Vamizi
J Taylor Design
New City
Manchester City
We Make
Hull Digital Live 2009
Envato
Great Works
Finch
Cobblestone
Koodoz
Search Inside Video
SonarHQ
Zurb
Tutorial9
Soh Tanaka
Odopod
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Wanto December 7, 2010
thank’s for the inspiration.
Raj Mehta October 20, 2011
Nice collection of websites
thanks for sharing
:)
Dominic Federici December 29, 2010
great sites!
what about..
http://www.df4u.co.uk <– brand new site
Mike Turner December 29, 2010
Some really great designs there – always nice to see what others are doing for inspiration.
Lisa February 7, 2011
A brilliant collection, some great creative minds at work. Seemed to be a lot of web designer sites though, would have been good to include some of the sites they created!
24hbestprice February 11, 2011
Awesome list! Thanks for sharing
Ned February 19, 2011
Good colection,
I love “Ecoki” ;)
Thanks
Ned
Sam March 6, 2011
Thanks for sharing!
http://www.ski-boutique.co.uk is a beautiful, simple, image driven site.
Red Bridge April 6, 2011
Gawesome! There’s a few sites on this list that have been around a while. Goes to show that quality design can hold up a long time.
affordable website design April 21, 2011
awesome collection. a good bookmark
Joseph Saito May 3, 2011
http://www.ideasonic.com – inspiring colorcombos
Rahul May 11, 2011
Nice designs , Cool… :)
Gareth May 13, 2011
Fab collection. Some great inspiration for my next project. Thanks for taking the time to share :)
samuel May 18, 2011
Great Collection….
testking May 24, 2011
Always nice to see what others are doing for inspiration.I Like it much
Anil N June 5, 2011
Awesome! Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Frank June 7, 2011
Those are the typical websites I would navigate away from immediately. They are all totally confusing. Give me a flat website any day with black text on a white background. You are wasting your time with your fancy flashing designs.
Eugene Lee June 8, 2011
Wow, a budding webmaster. I think most of the sites here are fascinating. I wonder to myself how the webmasters out there came to such gorgious designs. They are great men
kreative webzone June 10, 2011
thanks for sharing…..
Muhammad Yasir June 12, 2011
nice websites.
indu June 15, 2011
good design and good collection
Steve June 16, 2011
Wow – those are beautiful – to some people. To me, most are far from it.
They are not beautiful. You should call them ‘effective’ or some other name.
david June 29, 2011
really beautiful, is there a collection of beautiful website with cars?
james Verado July 1, 2011
Inspiring designs, thanks for putting this collection together
Angielski Wrocław July 4, 2011
I did enjoy this designs examples, great selection
Kamal July 19, 2011
Wow.. What a collection. I like it and hope next time my site will be the one of them.
madhav July 26, 2011
most of all Hull Digital Live 2009 is great ………….
Thnx for sharing such a good stuff.
saurabb August 4, 2011
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Jack Davis August 11, 2011
Some amazing designs here, something to think about as I’m getting bored of mine now…
עיצוב אתרים August 16, 2011
i love teh box effect specially the fire one
DanJ August 26, 2011
As a designer its always good to see what else is going on in the ‘real’ world, some very nice looking websites here!
Thanks!
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Chris Hatcher September 29, 2011
Awesome collection – very inspiring. Thanks!
Social Networking Community October 2, 2011
What beautiful websites! like Chris Hatcher said this collection is really inspiring!
thanks a lot!
Webdesign October 24, 2011
Very nice collection of designs and very inspiring!
Webdesign October 24, 2011
Very nice designs and very inspiring!
Steve October 27, 2011
Nice collection, recommend http://www.finleydesign.co.uk as a great source for UK web design
Bainstorminda November 22, 2011
Nice designs….good color combinations, These designs will be more asset a websites…. very beautiful
Peaks December 14, 2011
Lovely stuff…Inspiring.
Would love to hear from readers here what they think of http://www.cricketershop.com
It’s of course a shopping site unlike many in this list. Its designed to capture the feeling of being on the cricket field…calm…quiet and old fashioned!
Shaun December 14, 2011
Hi Peak,
The general layout looks nice and the color scheme is pleasing. But, the contributed content (slides and other injected images) have been poorly executed. The composition, typefaces, typography, etc. are all over the map. It appears one person/group designed the site and another person/group developed the creative content. Sincere apologies if this offends you in any way.
peaks December 15, 2011
Hi Shaun,
Thanks.
You are right on money… there were two different people involved
Will make some changes and hopefully, improve.
Any suggestion on composition or images- which was the part you disliked most.
Thanks a lot.
priya Londhe January 4, 2012
Awesome collection – very inspiring. Thanks!
James January 6, 2012
Thanks for sharing – some great ideas for inspiration, I particularly like the “Glue” one
http://www.blueandwhitelocations.com has a simple “Blue & White” colour scheme to put the focus on the images within
Gustavs Jurisons January 7, 2012
Yes I agree, “Glue” is by far the most beautiful and simplistic website on this list :)
chamod January 22, 2012
good
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