Best Designed Websites
Time for some Friday fun. Being super busy with 9rules and Fine Fools I haven’t had time to patrol the CSS galleries to see what are the hot new designs out there. Maybe you could help me out. What are the hottest new designs that you have seen in the last couple of months?
As of right now I am feeling:
I’m sure there are more but those are just off the top of my head.
Related reading:
Although it is a bit different than the two that you posted (it’s not a blog), I have been digging the design of Emotions by Mike.
By Joe Lencioni on December 2, 2005 1:06 pm
Hmmm…
http://www.ripleybaptisttemple.org
http://www.williamstewart.org
http://www.elsewares.com
http://www.elsewares.com
By William Stewart on December 2, 2005 1:13 pm
Totally non-standards (and in Russian), but incredible anyway: http://www.vozduh.ru.
By Matthew Pennell on December 2, 2005 1:35 pm
Vivified is nicely done.
By Michael Bester on December 2, 2005 1:54 pm
I totally dig Pixeldiva.
It’s so classy and yet totally different from all current design trends. It features unmatched integration of photoblog and normal blog.
By Marco on December 2, 2005 2:36 pm
I too am lovin’ the Smith ‘Black’ (orderedlist.com). Just let’s you know that shades of grey can still look good.
By Dustin Diaz on December 2, 2005 3:22 pm
I really dig the redesign of thefwa.com (Favourite Website Awards) It resembles (to me anyway) a flash version of StyleGala.
It’s a 3 column liquid layout in Flash too, smartly designed and minimal looking.
By Mark on December 2, 2005 3:52 pm
all flash, but very nice - barbarian group
TextDrive just did a nice redo
Shaun Inman’s stuff is nice too
By Rich Leland on December 2, 2005 4:30 pm
Does it have to be a blog? I was just visiting here yesterday listening to xmas podcasts and surfing the forum…. rest of site’s good too.
http://www.alexborstein.com/
By HART (1-800-HART) on December 2, 2005 4:42 pm
Love the clean design in that one Mark.
By Scrivs on December 2, 2005 5:56 pm
Totally biased, but I like the simple design of my products website: http://www.userscape.com/products/helpspot/
Not as flashy as some but very easy to use, which is key when you’re actually trying to sell a product.
By Ian on December 2, 2005 6:42 pm
I just finished my design, you may want to take a look. It’s clean, white and very simple.
http://www.emaginacion.com.ar/cym/
Some people aren’t sure about the buttons, but they look great to me!
By Javier Cabrera (ClearYourMind) on December 2, 2005 7:31 pm
Update: I forgot this one: http://www.37signals.com/svn/ it’s a great desing. I like it alot! simple, plain, not too much colors and yet, it’s powerful. I’m inloved with that design!
Hope some day I can pull something like that off! because it’s just simple!
By Javier Cabrera (ClearYourMind) on December 2, 2005 7:35 pm
Thanks Scrivs! It was actually Whitespace inspired. I’m sure that has some subconscious bearing on your reasoning ;-).
By Justin Palmer on December 2, 2005 8:20 pm
Well this on is in Portuguese but it’s a friend’s weblog using flash+php very nice design
http://www.ilovedzn.com
but I think you got it covered
By Mario on December 2, 2005 8:31 pm
We’ve just revamped our company website in Drupal: http//www.okcomputer.co.nz
Kate did the graphic design and I did the css/xhtml
By Mike Birch on December 3, 2005 1:01 am
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com is good for me.
By adrian on December 3, 2005 5:45 am
Fruitcast, of course!
By James Archer on December 3, 2005 11:46 pm
Made this for my woman.
By Bjarni on December 4, 2005 2:45 am
Great choices. I’d like to sing some praises for Ordered List’s WordPress plugin (Tiger Admin).
By Robert on December 4, 2005 4:01 pm
check out spreeblick, one of the most popular blogs here in germany. they did a ALA mutation.
By pepe on December 5, 2005 2:26 pm
also totally biased here, but FreshArrival is pretty freaking sweet.
By richard on December 5, 2005 2:42 pm
9rules.com? ;)
By Scott Kidder on December 5, 2005 3:05 pm
http://designcollector.ru/
http://www.ageofweb.ru/front/index.cgi?action=show_works
By Giga on December 6, 2005 6:04 am
I also love the design of Say-So
By Joe Lencioni on December 6, 2005 8:25 am
Most definitely http://deldindesign.com.
(OK, so it’s still in shambles after the custom php to textpattern conversion…)
By Jon-Michael on December 6, 2005 10:18 pm
Quit with the Shameless plugs of your own web sites.
On a different note… I like the design of http://www.advantageconsultingservices.com. It’s very clean and simple… good color choices as well.
By RonnieSan on December 7, 2005 2:02 am
I recently finished building this for a designer, I thought it looked pretty cool.
http://www.hyperhappen.com
By Tony Crockford on December 7, 2005 3:14 am
I just finished a few days ago my company website. Check it out: http://www.qdesign.ro
I think is nice :)
By Cristian Tirsan on December 7, 2005 12:09 pm
When you pimp your own sites (9rules) you sound like a Sony exec saying he/she viewed all the latest mp3 players out there in the market and the only ones of interest are the Sony ones.
I know you shooting for that whole viral marketing deal, but you need to hide it better than this. This just screams “My little club is the coooooolest, nanananananana”.
At least disclose which links are 9rules, the same way all BIG companies do (CNN.com when referencing any other Time Warner company and Slashdot when referencing any other company under the OSTG umbrella).
By Jason on December 7, 2005 1:27 pm
I thought me mentioning that I haven’t found the time to go around to the galleries was hints enough that the only sites I am aware of now are 9r member sites. If our big thing was only letting in pretty design sites then sure I would disclose that fact, otherwise no need on my part. However, I will try better in the future.
By Scrivs on December 7, 2005 3:29 pm
Shemeless plug… Just finished the re-design on my personal site PushStop.com.
By Caleb on December 7, 2005 4:06 pm
Here is an interesting WordPress site with a fluid, three-column, triple-loop, strict-XHTML design that looks clean and neat and makes me blush (a little):
Perishable Press
By The Oracle on December 8, 2005 4:26 am
What do you think about Vivabit? http://www.vivabit.co.uk/
By Cristian Tirsan on December 8, 2005 7:24 am
I won’t self promote ;) …
But I agree with thefwa.com, that’s a nice site. I love the dock hide feature as well. I’m not a fan of total Flash sites.. and the hard to read font on the right side is the main reason.
I like the simple slight designs like my site, plus
http://www.techcrunch.com
http://avalonstar.com/
By Guido on December 8, 2005 3:46 pm
Really nice and good site http://www.ilovedzn.com/ But other posteted sites also were good.
By Robis on December 9, 2005 8:52 pm
http://www.coudal.com
Excellent example of simple deign and good content combined…what every boy wants
By Mehorpa on December 10, 2005 5:59 am
Of course, I love my baby: FreshArrival
By richard on December 12, 2005 10:15 am
I would feel real bad if I didn’t add DeepBlue to this list. Very nice design, makes me feel at home on his page.
By ReaLiTy on December 13, 2005 9:10 am
the later ones that I noticed in the galeries,
http://www.strit.de/
http://penandthink.com/
Although, I believe that most of showcase sites are a bit out of focus, the quantity seems to get in the way of quality, a lot.
the second one has been around for a while now, although it has recently been reentered.
The fact that I mentioned only 2 sites says it all.
By tomo on December 15, 2005 11:51 am
Somebody kill Richard.
By Chris on December 18, 2005 11:30 am