• Inspiration: Beautiful Website Design

    This is a selection of beautiful website designs to boost your imagination for next time your designing a website. I hand picked these designs on Deviantart to show to you and talk about how beautiful websites are made.

    First of all I would like to introduce myself, it’s my first post here, thanks to Nick for giving me this opportunity. My name is Paulo Canabarro aka Paul0v2 and from now on I’ll be here with you guys very often.

    Here is my selection of beautiful website designs:

    Sergey (Russia)

     

    David (Poland)

     

    Daria Michalska (Poland)

     

    Kristina Miletieva (Bulgaria)

     

    Tomek (Poland)

     

    Michal Duszczyk (Poland)

     

    Jhove (Philippines)

     

    Now I ask you, what make theses website designs so beautiful?

    As you see all these have something in common, they not just a plain website design, they interact with the viewer by having images and photos popping out of that plain website view that we are used too, and in some of them is the website content that pops out of the background image which also interacts with the viewers on a positive way.

    Conclusion:

    You want to make your website design look good, make it look real, bring real elements into your design, Think Design Blog itself is a great example the way the top of the website is designed with different textures that blend in to a plain part with the content is beautiful.

    I know that is a lot more beautiful websites out there, so post your picks and thoughts, Thank you.

     

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  • 45 Comments

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    1. November 9th

      Cool websites, which I’ve actually never seen before! The images and textures used on these sites bring them to a level above normal designs.

    2. November 9th

      @Magnus, Yeah, they really are awesome! I’m glad I could bring you some new stuff as well :) Like your redesign, btw!

    3. November 9th

      thank you so much for including my design in your list :)

    4. November 10th

      Very nice. Some of the best I have seen.

    5. Rob Record
      November 10th

      Hope you don’t mind:

      The header image needs to be fixed position.. the background texture looks off (Safari 3.1.2 Mac).

      Also RSS box padding is missing.

      Otherwise, really nice design!

    6. November 10th

      @David, you are very welcome! Great work!

      @Bruce, glad you liked them, and thanks for stopping by!

      @Rob, Appreciate the comment! I will look into those issues, thanks for the heads up.

    7. Beautiful designs. Really great work!

    8. November 10th

      You’re right, there are some marvellous designs here. I think that some of the best websites are ones which use design elements to add depth to the layout, giving less of an impression of viewing a flat computer screen. Nice collection.

    9. November 11th

      Thank you for the comments, I’m glad everyone like it and pretty soon I’ll post more good stuff.

    10. Manu
      November 11th

      Including the link to the actual sites would have improved post quality :(

    11. November 11th

      Nice choices Paulo! I particularly like the the School of English one as it is a subject that doesn’t really have a lot of imagery associated with it, so the designer has had to work hard to bring in the visual elements.

      So is Poland where the great design is coming from these days?

      What about when you have clients who insist on textual content taking priority and want that super clean look? Two such examples we have just completed:

      http://www.bigbirdmarketing.co.uk
      http://www.businessawardseurope.com

    12. November 11th

      @josh, Thanks for stopping by! Glad you liked them.

      @Tracy, 100% agree! Thanks for stopping by.

      @Paulo, Great article! Thanks for writing it.

      @Manu, Some of these sites are concepts, so some are not live sites. I’ll make sure to have a link to the sites if they are live for future posts. Thanks for stopping by!

      @Sam, Thanks for your comment! I love your site, and the examples your posted. Specifically the BirdBird site. VERY nice! Thanks for stopping by.

    13. November 11th

      @Sam Cranwell, I guess when the client wants that, that is what you have to go for, It’s hard working with the client that don’t give you the space needed to create a good design. But bringing images into to the website it’s not the only way to make a website look good. I thinking of writing something about that for next time, like other ways to get a good design.

      For the websites u showed, they are not beautiful websites but the nice regular designs that made the client happy.

      Thank you for the post.

    14. November 12th

      Brilliant taste, lovely collection. Thanks man, *adds to favorites.

    15. November 12th

      No doubt, indeed very nice. Thanks for showing them.

    16. November 12th

      @liam, Glad you liked em! Thanks for stopping by again! Awesome new free theme yall got. Keep up the great work.

      @Not A Niche, Thanks for stopping by. Love the bright colors of your site!

    17. Tomasz Paciorek
      November 13th

      Thx for including my deign in here;)

    18. November 13th

      Thanks a lot Nick, I’m flattered, maybe it makes your list of Inspiration: Beautiful Website Design Part II the next time ;)
      But I really doubt that, since this selection is absolutely fabulous! Keep up the great work of quality and especially original work, didn’t see any of these websites before, except one. Mostly these kinds of lists are a repeating lists of the usual ones.

    19. November 14th

      I like all the design, love the coffee company most, brilliant designs.

    20. November 17th

      A real inspiration! Thanks so much!!!

    21. November 18th

      This is really great set of web designs. Nice work.

    22. Komal
      November 18th

      Loved them, never seen before, great inspiration for me……….thanks a lot
      :)

    23. November 19th

      Love the designs especially Kristina Miletieva the lighting is fantastic really makes it stand out of the page.

      It’s got me thinking about our website http://www.ikroh.com/ which has is css based with clean design but really like what you’ve done.

      Thank you for sharing your work and look forward to seeing more of it.

    24. November 20th

      @Tomasz, No problem! Thanks for designing inspirational stuff! :)

      @Not a Niche, Yup, I know what you mean! I’ll always try to make the posts original, and try not to repeat the same ole same ole. Thats the goal anyways :)

      @Mabuc, Thanks for stopping by! Yeah, thats one of my favorites as well.

      @Yorkali, Glad they could help! Thanks for stopping by.

      @Sasha, Thanks! Paulo did a great job of rounding up these sites.

      @Komal, Very welcome! Glad the sites could inspire!

      @Daniel, thanks for stopping by. Your right about the lighting, it for sure makes it stand out amongst the rest. Btw, love your site! Great job!

    25. November 21st

      Hi nice website you got here - and extrem good post thank you!

    26. dongwon
      November 28th

      Oh my god~

      Good Design ~!

      Oh so Lovely~ *^^*

    27. December 9th

      You are in my resources list coz I love to see beautiful design even I no designer.

      I love the coffee design most as I love coffee!

    28. December 14th

      Thanks for a great article and cool designs !
      I can only agree that it works. Site Layout, content and good meta tags is the key to success with SEO.

    29. December 16th

      These are fabulous examples of great web designs. They are so pretty and inviting, that if i came across them i would definitely be convinced that the product or company is good. Thanks for demonstrating some good examples.

    30. Thank you for this selection of such inspirational website designs!

    31. March 27th

      talk about inspiration. the web is now finally a long stretch of endless possibilities. you can go as far as how creative you are.

    32. March 30th

      The Honey website is amazing! ;) every thing done so perfect and nice,.. Good work!

    33. April 1st

      Gorgeous! Gorgeous!

    34. April 16th

      Very nice collection, I would be considering them in my next projects. But some in of the websites the developer tend to work too much on graphics, in order to make them look good attractive. This in some cases is true, but usually the viewer forgets about the main content of the website and starts focusing on the graphics and art work.

      Good post.

    35. Excellent website designs, i appreciate you for providing these excellent design concepts clean, cool, attractive with grace. Thanks

    36. May 18th

      Super design layouts thanks for sharing

    37. June 1st

      Amazing post !…Excellent website designs!

      Thanks for sharing! ;)

      Ovi Dogar

    38. Wow…awesome….Thanks for sharing this post.

    39. September 7th

      All sites are nice!

      All the color’s that the designer used is perfectly contrast in each other. The images that he/she used is unique.

    40. September 8th

      thank you for the list,,,

    41. September 10th

      Thanks for sharing, designs are wonderful, awesome

    42. November 19th

      Very nice post .. thanks for sharing with us

    43. January 8th

      These are awesome designs! Thank you for sharing! :) I really enjoyed looking through these!

    44. February 1st

      Absolutely an amazing collection of websites. The designs are simply stunning, really appreciate such creative work. Excellent effort!!!

    45. February 5th

      Gud work, i appriciate & will forward to my colleagues.
      Keep up good posts.

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