Monday, January 07, 2008

Best of 2007: CSS Design

Before 2007, I didn't know about complete CSS Website Designs. I used only <TABLE> tags and CSS classes in my projects. But in between of 2007, one of my friend Adipti Gupta asked me to design a website in complete CSS without using <TABLE> tags. I didn't know how to make it.

After that I tried to learn and get the information from websites and my friends. Now, I learned lots of things in CSS. Today I am working as a CSS Developer. I would like to thank to all my friends.

In the year 2007, I have seen a lots of websites designed in CSS. Here is a list of the websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery.

Capture the Valley


Beautifully designed single page site.


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Squawk Design


Impressive design by a graphic arts student, Dominik Lenk.


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Holiday To Go


Love the red color applied on the tinted background.


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Team Green



The torn paper and grunge effects are nicely put together. If you like my previous artistic design collection, you will like this site.


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Radiant Plumbing


How can a plumbing website be so artistic (check out the header artwork)? If the contrast on the text area is higher, it would be a perfect design.


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Alex Buga


Love the semi-transparent effects applied on the wood texture.


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Burnett Dairy



Very cooperative, yet friendly.


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Variable


Another artsy site.


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Pixelmator


A Mac application site with nice icons and layout structure.


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Jon Tan


Good use of web typography and grid layout.



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Scrapblog


A beautiful web-app frontpage.


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Marius Roosendaal


Single page portfolio site of Marius Roosendaal. Don’t forget to check out both "Day" and "Night" theme.



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Trale


I particularly like the details spent on the typography of Trale.


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Sarah Hyland


Very well-done on the header design.


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Eye Candy


Mmm yummy… both the design and chocolate bars. Another good design site powered by WordPress.



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RealaSponse


Nice 2-column homepage.


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Flame Digital


Very unique layout structure and nice background images throughout the site.


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Tickerville


I like the design a lot, but I’m not sure if this design/style work for a financial related site.


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Webstock


New Zealand’s web conference website.


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Cabedge


Simple, clean, and comfortable layout.


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I Love Typography


A blog by John dedicated to typography.


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Shylands



Simple, large bold font, great color contrast…


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Superawesome


Very unique illustration style and color theme.


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Happy Cog


A classic beautiful site.


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Free People


One of my favorite ecommerce sites. The amount of details spent on this site is incredible.



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Wish Tree


The wish/tag cloud in the background is simply creative!


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Biola Undergrad


Another artsy design.


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Viget Labs


Nice use of Javascript and CSS (I mean the scrolling effects).


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Svenigson



Very clean and boxy layout.


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Stuff and Nonsense


Site of Andy Clarke.


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J R Velasco


Designed by Miguel Ripoll (one of my favorite designers). He has great sense of web typography. The layout looks very chaotic, yet the content is organized.


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Explore Cascadia



One word, beautiful.


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Yellow Stone Park


A very nice design within the box.


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Elliot Jay Stocks


A design blog by Elliot Jay Stocks. He is a very talented designer with great personality (based on my personal conversations with him).


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Freelance Switch



Good design and great content (freelance related).


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Knoxville


Retro style in collage form.


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Electric Pulp


I’m loving the watercolor effects.


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Vivabit


I’m not a big fan of liquid design, but this is a good one.



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Surfgarden


Nice and clean 2-column blog design.


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Tanya Merone


Another great example of single-page site.


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Matt Brett


A nice design blog by Matt Brett, he is a designer gamer.



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Larissa Meek


A beautiful blog design by Larissa Meek, formerly a model, now she is an art director at AgencyNet.


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Noodle Box


Nice use of color contrast.


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Kineda


A blog by Terry and Tami Ng (celebrity and entertainment news).



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Pod3.tv


Another nice design blog.


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Kev Adamson


Another sketchy design.


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Eleven3


Another retro/collage approach.


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Turbo Milk



Nice icon.


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Veerle’s Blog


Another classic beautiful blog.


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31three


Blog and design portfolio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.


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Source: http://www.webdesignerwall.com

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