Top 100 CSS Designs of 2007
From big budget to small budget, intense to simplistic, this is one monster of a top 100 compilation! Take a moment to enjoy this year's best designs the world has to offer. Each site is rated in order of uniqueness, visual quality, and overall presentation.
The arduous process of identifying the top 100 designs of 2007 was simple: find the best, new designs (including redesigns) of 2007 and rate them in order from 100 to one. With particular emphasis on new trends with clean CSS layouts, vibrant colors, amazing artwork, and damn good design skills.
Some designs are just stunning. As a nerd business owner and designer myself, I have, throughout 2007, collected these stunning designs as bookmarks and I'm sharing the links with you for your own viewing benefit. The original list consisted of about 190 hand picked designs AND just so I didn't miss anything I relentlessly scoured the archives of various CSS Gallery sites (who specialize in this type of thing) so that no one was missed.
Enjoy the Top 100 CSS Designs of 2007 below:
#100 Bartelme Design
#99 Freshview
#98 Mark Bixby
#97 Banyan Bar
#96 MindMeister
#95 Elitist Snob
#94 FreelanceSwitch
#93 cgCraft
#92 Global Zoo
#91 Ron Paul 2008
#90 Mint Idea
#89 Buffalo
#88 NxE
#87html life
#85 Erskine Design
#84 elixir graphics
#81 David Behan
#80 Modern Blue
#77 Task1
#76 IESL
#75 HBCWeb
#74 Sum Life
#72 Zend
#71 Spruce Peak
#70 Janic Design
#68 toybar
#67 Secuoyas
#66 ashwebmedia
#65 Olivier Vanier
#64 Kretivia
#63 Proxicast
#61 Iconkits.com
#60 Angel 49
#59 Design General
#58 Molehill
#57 Ventutec
#56 Coda
#55 Pixel House
#54 Radiant Plumbing
#53 pixeldub
#52 TexturePacks.net
#51 Pixlogix
#50 Nemark Media
#49 Pixelshell
#48 Frexy
#47 BearGraphics
#46 Hydra Studio
#45 TNTPixel
#44 SEO Studio
#43 Cabedge
#42 Poplar Grove
#41 Ars Nova
#38 Wake Interactve
#37 Timothy Blake
#36 Webdesigner.ro
#35 JEDA Records
#34 Rann Wear
#33 webZapisnik.cz
#31 Pixelmator
#30 Elastic Digital
#29 Visual Elixir
#28 Stoodeo
#27 Ungarbage
#26 General Electric
#25 Infinise Design
#24 Pink Cactus
#23 imloušekStudio
#22 Incredible Box
#21 Danny Blackman
#19 dotsilver
#18 Alex Buga
#17 Nivas
#15 Lance Thackeray
#14 Fray
#13 Cult Foo
#12 moo.fx
#11 Ted Lermontov
#10 Voll
#9 A J Miles
#8 Stripemania
#1 darklight
And so this ends the top 100. This year, many of the top designs feature a layout model which allows for a simple centered layout with intense surrounding header & background art. This trend was likely first innovated (and fully maximized) by last years #1 design, N.Design Studio. Obviously this style of presentation is still catching on we'll continue to see more in future.
So long 2007 it was a great year in design. Let's see how artists of the world embrace the digital realm in 2008. May technical innovation compliment artistic design & our ability to share information.
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Schwabe is an Android app designer and business nerd with a passion for technology, startups, and free market capitalism.
I'm glad that my design (www.frexy.com) is mentioned in the list. Thank you very much. Wish you a successful 2008! Min Tran
And one more, Thank you very much! I'm on #32 among the list :) It's great note to end the year and lots of encouragement to the next version. Wish you happy and prosperous new year ahead. Cheers, Kishore www.kishoren.com
And another one! We are at #22. Many thanks to our in-house design team for this and keep checking the site as we plan to keep fresh and informative in 2008. dan clapson http://www.incrediblebox.com
Hey, you guys beat me! :o) Our site is at number 49 -- Thanks a lot for mentioning it! Great collection of beautiful and inspirational designs, good job.
The title of this article is somewhat misleading since a lot of those layouts heavily weigh upon flash within their core layout to achieve that "wow" factor. Still very great sites though; nice list. Some of these sites will certainly inspire some of my future designs.
Thank you for putting Hrasti.com in the honourable list! I will respond to your email in details soon. All the Best in the New Year!
Hi! Just to say thanks for featuring us! Best regards and wishes for this 2008! Pablo Rodriguez Molinari Ars Nova - Web Design http://www.arsnovadesign.com.ar/
Hi there. Thanks a lot for featuring me. It's a great Christmas gift. Best to You and Yours. Lise
Hey! Thanks for RANN on 34!!!
Hey man! Thanks for the listing.... 2008 was an interesting year for us... but to make it to 24 on a list like this totally makes it all worth while! :) Thanks again! The Cactus Crew.
'This ain't funny so don't ya dare laugh' greetings from volll.com :)
Hi thank you very much for submitting me to top 100 css designs of 2007 i was pleased to be #37 anyway well done i will be looking foward to the new blog at the end of 2008 any way good luck in future regards Timothy Blake -- www.timothyblake.com
I really like #3 and #7, but I'm not sure why #4 is up there... Yeah I know I'm a month late
thanks from our crew for featuring us! BeeSoft
Im at #68! Thank you! ;-)
Nice websites! Really!
Woow. These are very excellent designs. But i don't think number 1 is the best. I just don't. It is little too much arty for my liking. Anyway what on earth is number 12 and 6 doing here? They are not good designs at all. For me, number 49 rocks. It should have made into top 3.
Our team would like to thank you for including Fisticuff Design Co. in your listing. Kind regards. Fisticuff Design Co.