5 Sources Of Inspiration for Web Designers- CaptainForm WP Form Builder Plugin

In 1991 the first ever website was launched. A copy of this site still exists. Twenty-Five Years later we are witnessing a continuous evolution of web design.

A savvy web designer knows that website excellence is defined by usability, accessibility and adaptability. But we all know that a single moment of inspiration can make a big difference. It’s just that sometimes we can’t wait for inspiration, we have to go after it!

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.” – Jack London

Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. Some prefer reading, while others like to look at the best designs from around the globe.

We think that the following sites are great sources of inspiration and we want to share them with you:

 1. Webdesign Inspiration

Well, the name speaks for itself. A great inspiration gallery, but on their site you can also find articles, web design tips & tutorials, free resources and freebies and a selection of the best books for web designers. You can browse by industries, types, styles, colors and multi-category.

2. siteInspire

A CSS gallery and showcase of the best web design inspiration where you can submit a site for consideration. You can browse over 4500 sites by style, type, subject, or just see the very best.

3. Design Licks

Creation date: 2006. Featured sites: over 3000. You can submit your website to be featured on their site. Take into consideration that they reward creativity, usability and attention to detail. Only one website is designated as « Website of the day ».

4. The Best Designs

If you are a designer, a student or a business professional you can visit their site to see new work, upcoming trends or design inspiration. You need a web designer for your project? They can help.There are freelance web designers and agencies with at least one design featured on the site to help fine-tune your search for the best candidate. You can also view their directory of some of the best WordPress Themes from trusted theme partners, if you want to create your own site.

5. Web Pages That Suck

Vincent Flanders, the author and designer of the website, has a different but very interesting approach. He believes that you can learn good design by looking at bad design. He wrote two books about it. If you want to know more about him, he has two bios: The normal bio. And his mother’s notes from birth to First Communion.

Have you ever heard of Mystery meat navigation (also known as MMN)?  It’s a disparaging term coined in 1998 by Vincent Flanders, to describe a web page where the destination of the link is not visible until the user points their cursor at it.

WebPagesThatSuck.com won a number of awards including a selection as one of PC Magazine’s Top 100 Web Sites,  Yahoo! Pick of the Week, USA Today Hot Site and Cool Site of the Day.

What do you think about these sites? Find them useful? Share your thoughts below.