Top 100 CSS Designs of 2007

December 29, 2007 By Schwabe 18 comments

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:

#99 Freshview

 

#93 cgCraft

#90 Mint Idea

#89 Buffalo

#88 NxE

#77 Task1

#76 IESL

#75 HBCWeb

#74 Sum Life

#72 Zend

#68 toybar

#67 Secuoyas

#64 Kretivia

#63 Proxicast

#60 Angel 49

#58 Molehill

#57 Ventutec

#56 Coda

#53 pixeldub

#51 Pixlogix

#48 Frexy

#45 TNTPixel

#43 Cabedge

#41 Ars Nova

#34 Rann Wear

#28 Stoodeo

#27 Ungarbage

#19 dotsilver

#18 Alex Buga

#17 Nivas

#14 Fray

#13 Cult Foo

#12 moo.fx

#10 Voll

 

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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Comments

Min Tran says...

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

dan clapson says...

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

Dmitry says...

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.

Jimmy says...

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!

Pablo says...

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

Flip says...

Hey! Thanks for RANN on 34!!!

tim says...

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.

Zsolt Vajda says...

'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

Graham says...

I really like #3 and #7, but I'm not sure why #4 is up there... Yeah I know I'm a month late

mr.white says...

thanks from our crew for featuring us! BeeSoft

Im at #68! Thank you! ;-)

Maksim says...

Nice websites! Really!

mohodin says...

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.

Bryan says...

Our team would like to thank you for including Fisticuff Design Co. in your listing. Kind regards. Fisticuff Design Co.
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