With new technologies flooding the web,different tools are available with which a web designer can showcase his creativity and craft. But despite putting in the effort and sweat, numerous websites with fantastic creativity fail to get noticed. Also, the surge in designing is driving designers to dig for creativity, color schemes and layouts.
Keeping these aspects in mind, we came up with a compendium of best CSS directories, CSS showcase, CSS galleries that rank / grade websites (using CSS) on the basis of ‘alexa ranking’, colors, categories, tags, ratings and RSS.
If you feel that a particular site is worth to get showcased, then drop the URL’s in your comments so that they become a part of our next list.
If you found this article useful, digg it to ensure that a designer’s effort doesn’t go unnoticed.
| Site | Alexa Rank | Colors | Categories | Tags | Ratings | RSS |
| cssbeauty.com | 10,432 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Url |
| cssdrive.com | 14,303 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| stylegala.com | 15,819 | No | No | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| cssmania.com | 22,686 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| cssremix.com | 23,294 | No | No | No | Yes | Full Image |
| alvit.de/css-showcase/ | 26,557 | No | Yes | No | No | Url |
| cssvault.com | 27,285 | No | No | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| w3csites.com | 28,078 | No | No | No | No | Url |
| bestwebgallery.com | 30,382 | No | Yes | No | No | Thumbnail |
| csselite.com | 33,948 | No | Yes | No | No | Thumbnail |
| screenalicious.com | 36,114 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| unmatchedstyle.com | 42,269 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Full Image |
| designlinkdatabase.net | 48,086 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| screenfluent.com | 51,014 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| designsnack.com | 51,904 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Url |
| cssheaven.com | 53,491 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| cssimport.com | 57,960 | No | No | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| cssglobe.com | 65,660 | No | No | No | No | Url |
| cssreboot.com | 67,768 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Url |
| mostinspired.com | 68,025 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| thebestdesigns.com | 68,614 | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| thesis.veracon.net | 76,844 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| cssbloom.com | 79,672 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| csscollection.com | 92,579 | |||||
| csstux.com | 98,129 | No | No | No | No | No |
| cssbased.com | 101,834 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Url |
| css-website.com | 102,923 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| designshack.co.uk | 109,656 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| ceeses.com | 124,001 | No | No | No | Yes | Url |
| anjo.dekiteharu.jp | 135,146 | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| cssclip.com | 135,730 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Url |
| my3w.org | 151,235 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| csshazard.com | 167,525 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Full Image |
| artnetz.de | 173,234 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Thumbnail |
| css-design-yorkshire.com | 177,077 | No | No | No | No | No |
| css11.com | 182,520 | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| cssimpress.com | 188,219 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| e-motionaldesign.com | 202,826 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| cssprincess.com | 210,811 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| cssgaleri.com | 220,224 | No | Yes | No | No | Thumbnail |
| cssblast.ru | 224,048 | No | No | No | No | Url |
| creative-pakistan.com | 233,247 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| netzfruehling.de | 237,645 | No | No | No | No | No |
| najdizajn.com | 256,885 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| edustyle.net | 274,750 | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| csssmoothoperator.com | 290,827 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| coolsitecollection.com | 313,655 | No | Yes | No | No | Thumbnail |
| cssgalaxy.com | 348,352 | No | Yes | No | No | Thumbnail |
| per.fectio.net | 357,030 | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| cssflavor.com | 364,755 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| onepixelarmy.com | 369,312 | No | Yes | No | No | Url |
| piepmatzel.de | 418,803 | No | No | No | No | Url |
| cssbrain.hu | 438,074 | No | Yes | No | No | Thumbnail |
| w3c-compliance.com | 461,674 | No | No | No | No | No |
| stylegrind.com | 484,645 | No | No | No | No | Url |
| submitcss.com | 523,147 | |||||
| inspirace.dobrestranky.com | 549,529 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Full Image |
| cssgallery.ro | 553,463 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Url |
| cssgreen.com | 600,815 | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Updated: 22nd December 2007
Updated with new links based on the comments received.
| Site | Alexa Rank | Colors | Categories | Tags | Ratings | RSS |
| csszengarden.com | 13,878 | No | No | No | No | Url |
| webcreme.com | 21,564 | Yes | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| prowebart.net | 324,625 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Full Image |
| designexpanse.com | 340,762 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Thumbnail |
| csssnap.com | 360,300 | No | Yes | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| menthe-fresh.fr | 427,757 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Thumbnail |
| csscoosite.com | 548,693 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Url |
| csscool.cn | 681,511 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Thumbnail |
| morpheed.com/css | 2,313,992 | No | No | No | No | Thumbnail |
| csstown.com | 3,463,368 | No | No | No | Yes | No |
There’s a CSS aggregator that shows you most of these galleries in a single website.
Check it out >> Morpheed CSS
The blogsphere is going CSS mad!
Nice list sravkum. I posted a collection of CSS resources a few weeks ago that included much of these. There are some sites here that I didn’t know about when I made my list.
101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness
Enjoy!
Wait so their alexa rank tells how useful they are? I don’t see why sorting them by alexa rank is relevant.
what about webcreme? :)
Does anyone has the courage to create an OPML file with all the feeds from these sites ?
Would be great!
good,i like.
thanks!
Wow, thank you.
I would die to watch them ;-)
Its great collection. I need it with more ones or recent. thanks, Keep it up. And Do u have any collection for css tips or using css styles.
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Wow, thank you.
very good,i like.
thanks!
Hello
Can you plz set the PageRank (PR) at the list ?? ??
I think its important for some people ;) including me
Then I need to say it is a great list men ! Very Nice
Ronald
If I were bored enough, I’d totally go thru them all and submit my site. LOL
Great list, please keep it updated!
Excelentes
I would love to have CSS Loaf added to the list, as it brings together designs from 35 other showcases so that you don’t have to check multiple sites each day! It also features large screenshots so that each design is visible; no need to strain your eyes on tiny thumbnails ;-)
Yeah, CSS is really great. There are lots of diffrent sites which offers beatiful design. I especially like the once with many lines and flowers :P
Here is ultimate most complete CSS Gallery list with 440 CSS Galleries found at topcss.stumbleupon.com.
Enjoy!!
Best Regards
TruSighT
Right on! I’m glad you chose to include their Alexa ratings great resource.
Nice!
Great list of css directories i will have to give these a try.
wow, nice list! i will have to give these a try, thanks
Hi,
Trying to get through those 500+ galleries. Css luxury aim to establish the biggest database of well designed sites until 25th December. Until then we must post 5ooo websites (that means around 24 sites/day ), if we’ll not succed the website will be closed.
Every 2 months the site will get an enhancement. The first one will be on 1st July.
All the best,
thanks, a lot of sites to sobmit!!!
Great CSS List. Thanks for posting.
Great Collection, thanks a lot!
Hey guys good list. You can also add our website stackcss.com to your list.
I spent several nights searching for real useful css directories and of course I found some good archieves. Thanks a lot for your list – the silent nightwork can be over now :)
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Thank you very much, this is a real treasure.
Found three new unique galleries from your list, great post!
Great posts, thank you
Indeed a great collection. The sites featured in these galleries are simply fantastic. We not only get inspiration from them but also get to know the latest trends in web designing. Thanks for taking efforts in putting these directories together. Cheers!
I moved , this is a real treasure.
Thank you very much, this is a real treasure.
This site is really amazing it has more than 60 CSS gallery sites and it has good web design templates.
hey this CSS is pretty good it has more collections.
Hi, thank you for this great compilation of CSS directories.
It’s really amazing work, I am inspired by your work and obviously this blog is perfect. thank you
Wonderful gallery.Thanks for sharing.
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