As much as I would love to tell you guys how you should keep up with the latest web designs and on the importance of CSS for maintaining those good web designs, you all know that there is no way I could pull off such a post. Heck, if I knew that much about CSS and PHP I wouldn’t need to rely on a theme such as FlexSqueeze that does almost everything for me. Naturally, if you’re going to display any sort of theme, CSS or otherwise, you need to find a web hosting solution.
Still, being as how it is so important I was lucky enough to have been offered a guest post by Mary Ward who just happens to be a freelance author who writes about design job topics, such as how to choose among web design colleges, artist career tips, and more. Yeah, I know I’m waffling again, here’s the article.
As a web designer, you need to constantly find inspiration in order to be successful and to create work that is appealing and comprehensive. As with any other expression of art, it can sometimes be a task just to stay focused and find inspiration in everyday life. One aspect that is especially important to be focused with is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Within the industry of web design, CSS is a key building block to help you draw traffic to your website and ultimately get a higher page rank. Therefore learning the ins and outs and finding inspiration through CSS galleries is of the utmost importance as you move forward with your web design career. As a web designer, you really want to look to the CSS galleries as not only a source of inspiration, but also a way to keep up with new trends, practices, and creative ideas. The very best web designer must keep up with CSS galleries so that they are constantly fresh and using the trends to sharpen their own designs.
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7 CSS Galleries You Should Know
Here we look at the top 7 beautiful CSS galleries that can help you to find inspiration and ultimately make you a better web designer.
1. CSS Vault – CSS Vault uses some rather stringent criteria for the CSS designs that are exhibited, which means it can be one of the best resources for the web designer looking for inspiration. As only the best of the best are exhibited in the CSS gallery on this site after going through an extensive review, you know that what you are seeing is at the top of the pack and can serve as inspiration and even education.
2. CSS Creme – CSS Crème offers a one-stop shop to web designers when it comes to CSS designs and so much more. Promoting the best sites out there is the main focus of this site and it allows web designers to not only post theirs for others to see, but allows you to view many other CSS designs out there. It can serve as an excellent inspirational site, as well as a starting point for other applications and technologies.
3. CSS Based – CSS Based helps to provide web designers from everywhere the most well designed CSS-based websites out there. Not only can you find the inspirational CSS designs that you are looking for, but you can also find some excellent resources that can help you to troubleshoot and network with other web designers in the industry.
4. The Best Designs – The Best Designs isn’t new to the scene and therefore they have tweaked the site and know what it takes to offer the very best in CSS designs. The site is created for the designer and therefore its goal is to exhibit only the top CSS designs which are updated constantly. This serves well for the designer that wants to keep current and stay with the trends as they grow and change.
5. CSS Zen Garden – CSS Zen Garden takes a different approach which results in the web designer finding an almost surreal and inspirational place. This site’s main function is to provide a full demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS design. Therefore it shows the best CSS designs possible with the intent of inspiring the designer in their journey.
6. CSS Elite – The beautiful thing about CSS Elite is that it offers a broad range of CSS designs and helps to break them down by category. Rather than scouring the web for various types of CSS designs that will suit your given need, the site does this for you and offers a comprehensive view of each type and category.
7. Style Gala – Style Gala serves as an online inspiration site for designers when it comes to CSS designs. It focuses on the very essence of CSS which is to separate content from presentation and provides a wide array of designs that a designer can work off for inspiration. For the designer looking for beautiful and functional designs, this is the place to visit.
The key to success as a web designer is not only to create beautiful work but to keep it fresh and new and just like any other creative process we can all get stuck from time to time. The CSS galleries above are among the most beautiful out there, offering some excellent designs and demonstrating new practices within the industry.
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I have slowly but surely been playing with CSS more and more, It can be frustrating at times thats for sure. Thank you for the sexy CSS galleries.
.-= Extreme John@Extreme John Blogs and Business´s last blog ..Fighter Jet Too Close to Detroit Appartment Building =-.
I’ve done a bit of playing around with CSS, but nothing major, just a little tweak here or there to fix the color.
Twittley and BM love.
.-= Extreme John@Extreme John Blogs and Business´s last blog ..Chuck Liddell joins the family =-.
Nice tips on CSS it is generally very tough to get such tips and i am sure that many people are going to like these tips and many people would learn from it.
The main aim of any post is always to provide something to the reader, whether its information or just entertainment, as long as they leave with something I am always pretty wrapped.
CSS galleries are always inspirational. I was going to suggest CSSZenGarden but you had it already. ;) It’s one of my favourites– people take their core template and style it until it’s their own.
Thanks for sharing!
.-= Grace´s last blog ..What do you want to see on NeonScent? =-.
No worries Grace, I’m glad you liked it, and I’m grateful Mary picked this blog to represent her as a guest post.
Very nice list. I’ve recently been playing around with my CSS, but I try to be very careful. Don’t want to mess anything up!
.-= The Gooroo @ Finance Advisory Stop´s last blog ..Using Yahoo Answers To Promote Your Blog Or Business =-.
Yep, I know the feeling, which is why I rarely play around with my CSS, and when I do I always make sure I do a backup of the original file.
Okay, I’ll admit it; I’m lost. I use CSS on my website, though not my blog, and I’m not sure what’s making these sites supposedly better because they’re using CSS as opposed to just regular ol’ great web design. Some of them do look good, though.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Reviewing Visitors =-.
Don’t look at me Mitch, I’m just a thick Aussie bloggers who was lucky enough to grab the opportunity for this guest post. Hopefully someone with more knowledge on the subject will be able to explain it all to us.
Just asking, but don’t people usually put guest posts on someone else’s blog?
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Friend Or Follow =-.
Oh, didn’t you realize that someone else was the guest?
Oh, you didn’t write that? I didn’t know that; maybe you need to highlight it in some fashion so that others know that, as you blended it in. Thanks for letting me know.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Social Media Webinar Now For Sale =-.
I thought I did, hang on a sec and let me have a look……..yep, there it is in the second paragraph. :tongue_wink_ee:
Ha ha ha! I’d never imagine even remotely that you’d be concerned about CSS Sire!
@Mitch. One of the main benefits of using CSS is about SEO, as it allows you to decide the order in which your content is displayed to the search engines, in a much more practical way than using tables.
Also, at equal design, the one using table will load slower than the one using CSS because the content of a table can only be displayed once the entire content of that table is loaded, while CSS can load individual blocks.
Of course CSS also allows you to use more styling option, including having a fluid design if it fits your site, but those are not so important.
.-= Nicolas Prudhon@SEO Help´s last blog ..Beware of the Authority Loophole =-.
I know all of that, Nicholas. However, I like to use a combination of CSS and tables, mainly because I’ve seen too many CSS only sites that go haywire at a moment’s notice. I say that because I’ve had to fix a couple of them for clients after the fact.
Truthfully, it’s never been proven that a CSS site will rank better than a site built on tables. If you’d said frames I’d have totally agreed with you. I will acknowledge, though, that there are some things that would be easier to figure out using CSS than it is using tables; that is, if you understand how to use CSS to begin with.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Do We Hate Marketing So Much That,… =-.
Hey Nicolas, thanks for helping out with the CSS stuff, and yes you’re right in thinking I would be the last person to be concerned about CSS or know anything about it which is why I let Mary write this guest post.
When you wrote “here’s the article,” I thought you were saying you were getting ready to post the guest post you wrote for her, and I was wondering when you were going to give the link to her blog so we could see it there also.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..If I Wanted To Make Money On A Blog, I Would,… =-.
I thought that having said I was “offered a guest post by Mary Ward” was sort of obvious, but I suppose some may mistake it as being I was offered to write a guest post for Mary, but that wasn’t the case. She was the one who wrote a guest post for me.
Now one thing which i want to tell you that i am not a perfect champ in CSS field but i am new to it so for me it is completely new thing but i am having a very good interested so i will definitely try on it!
.-= Mike´s last blog ..Preview of the iPhone 3GS. Is it any good? =-.
Well, whatever you do, make sure you backup any file that your work on.
These are great :o
I think that You’ve made few people lives simplier by giving this small library of CSS possibilities. Good post.
CSS galleries always work for me.
Well Pozy, I hope you don’t mind me shortening your name like that,
but if I can help make peoples lives a little bit easier, well then, I feel that I must be doing something right.
CSS galleries are not only good for inspiration, but also link building – if you have a good CSS design, then try submitting it to those galleries. Links and traffic are always a good bonus.
~ Kristi
.-= Kikolani´s last blog ..Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Follow Friday, & Slap Chop Remix =-.
That’s a great tip Kristi, it’s so obvious and yet I didn’t think of it. Thanks for commenting and parting with your great advice.
A lot of technical advice, Sire. Those of like mind will appreciate it.
Cheers,
Peter
And I can assure you Peter none of that advise is of my doing :smile1_ee:
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in my point of view the CSS is very good for the promotion of the blogs & sites because it gives the idea for the link building & i am very agreed with kikolani about the point for having the link building one has to learn the good knowledge of the css galleries!
.-= Susana´s last blog ..Spanish Property in Nerja Overview from Spanish Hot Properties July 2009 =-.
That may be true Susana, but I for one find all that stuff a little geeky and I am quite happy to let the pros do it just so I can concentrate on blogging.
It’s really an interesting & challenging topic. A lot of new bloggers would be at loss of words & ideas to choose the best one, especially for new ones. It’s great to see the effort to help newbies. i really think CCS & PHP information form these sights is going to be useful to everyone.
.-= Chris Peterson´s last blog ..Tips for Building High Value Links for Your Site =-.
That can be true for a lot of people Chris, thanks for your point of view.
Hey,
I see you mentioned flexsqueeze – Im also an avid user of this them. I find it very helpful for all the necessary tasks when I set up new websites and gives me a fantastic look for the one-off cost. Ive noticed more and more blogs are using the flexability theme lately.
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Flexsqueeze is a marvelous product so I’m not at all surprised that you like it.
Good post and some decent CSS resources there! I love CSS and think that what some of these guys are doing is phenomenal. I am new to CSS myself and only have limited knowledge but you gotta start somewhere.
Thanks for the resources and good luck with the blogging.
Rob
i have only just been using css and found it really intersting and some thing that i have quite a passion for.
could anyone recommend me flexsqueeze? is it easy to use ect?
manny thanks
Sure Dominik, I can recommend it. That’s why I use it on all my blogs.
Hey Sire, these are so helpful. Thanks! I checked on the Elite one and they have really amazing designs listed.