Best of CSS Design 2007

Source: WebDesignerWall

Capture the Valley
Beautifully designed single page site.



Squawk Design
Impressive design by a graphic arts student, Dominik Lenk.



Holiday To Go
Love the red color applied on the tinted background.



Team Green
The torn paper and grunge effects are nicely put together.



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.



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


Burnett Dairy
Very cooperative, yet friendly.



Variable
Another artsy site.



Pixelmator
A Mac application site with nice icons and layout structure.


Jon Tan
Good use of web typography and grid layout.



Scrapblog
A beautiful web-app frontpage.



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



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


Sarah Hyland
Very well-done on the header design.


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



RealaSponse
Nice 2-column homepage.



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


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



Webstock
New Zealand’s web conference website.


Cabedge
Simple, clean, and comfortable layout.


I Love Typography
A blog by Johno dedicated on typography.


Shylands
Simple, large bold font, great color contrast…


Superawesome
Very unique illustration style and color theme.


Happy Cog
A classic beautiful site.



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


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


Biola Undergrad
Another artsy design.



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


Svenigson
Very clean and boxy layout.



Stuff and Nonsense
Site of Andy Clarke.



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.


Explore Cascadia
One word, beautiful.



Yellow Stone Park
A very nice design within the box.


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).

Freelance Switch
Good design and great content (freelance related).


Knoxville
Retro style in collage form.



Electric Pulp
I’m loving the watercolor effects.


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


Surfgarden
Nice and clean 2-column blog design.


Tanya Merone
Another great example of single-page site.


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


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



Noodle Box
Nice use of color contrast.



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


Pod3.tv
Another nice design blog.



Kev Adamson
Another sketchy design.



Eleven3
Another retro/collage approach.


Turbo Milk
Nice icon.



Veerle’s Blog
Another classic beautiful blog.


31three
Blog and design portfolio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.