ikreateit.com

Every designer faces a blank page or screen now or then & can’t come up with some­thing spec­tac­u­lar. Instead of wait­ing for your muse to kick into gear, check out these sites that show­case a wide range of designs to get your cre­ative juices flowing.

TheBestDesigns.com

Rather big col­lec­tion, but tiny pre­views only. Every sub­mit­ted site is tagged and by select­ing a tag, you can see more sites of that cat­e­gory. Only after the click you’ll see an overview of all the tags on the left side. Rank­ing of the designer direc­tory has to be taken with a grain of salt since the rank­ing reflects the amount of mon­e­tary dona­tions to the site and has noth­ing to do with skills or qual­ity of work.

CreamyCSS.com

Very nice show­case. Rat­ings by users, unfor­tu­nately you can’t sort by it. But tags and cat­e­gories are eas­ily acces­si­ble through the left side­bar. Easy to nav­i­gate and find content.

Creattica.com

Part of the fan­tas­tic envato net­work. Col­lec­tion ranges from 3d, busi­ness cards over CSS, Flash, Logos, Posters and much more. Not just for inspi­ra­tion, but also to be in awe. No tags though, so you can only  click your way through.

CSSclip.com

A lit­tle con­fus­ing at the first look, but when you scroll down, you have a lot of cat­e­gories to choose from (color, style,  service).

CSSheaven.com

Not very huge gallery but eas­ily acces­si­ble through tags and categories.

CSSiphone.com

Some­thing very spe­cial: mobile ver­sion of web­sites, suit­able for dis­play on the iPhone and other mobile devices.

CSSmania.com

Very high qual­ity show­case of web­sites, neatly orga­nized by time of sub­mis­sion and type of web­site (busi­ness, blog­ging, and even sub­cat­e­gories). Well worth browsing.

CSSremix.com

No tags, no cat­e­gories, no way of sort­ing. Just straight showcase.

DeliciousCSS.com

Excel­lent show­case of high qual­ity sites. You can pick sites by col­ors or by cat­e­gories. And, just in case I didn’t men­tion it: really high qual­ity sites. Easy to spend hours there.

DesignBombs.com

Very nice show­case, eas­ily to nav­i­gate by col­ors and top­ics (busi­ness sites, web­de­sign, port­fo­lio, etc)

theDesignInspiration.com

Cov­ers a wide range of designs, from logos & illus­tra­tion to web­sites, pho­tos, pat­terns and fonts.

DesignSnack.com

Not sort­ing here either, but high qual­ity sites with the abil­ity to save them and rate them.

EduStyle.net

Some­thing very spe­cific: show­case of sites ded­i­cated to edu­ca­tion. You can not only search by tags, but you can search for spe­cific schools as well. Def­i­nitely worth a look if you are design­ing for that sector.

Flickr

It wouldnn’t be Flickr if it wouldn’t have a gallery on inspi­ra­tional web designs. Not as com­fort­able to nav­i­gate as the other sites and only tiny pre­views, but of course large expo­sure due to the size of the social network.

FullSingle.com

Gallery for sin­gle sites. Not all sub­mit­ted sites do indeed con­sist of only one page, but it’s still a good start­ing point if you are look­ing for inspi­ra­tion in that area. To actu­ally see the gallery, click on the menu item “Archive” on the right.

MixCSS.com

Large gallery that you can browse by cat­e­gories or just at ran­dom. Nice large pre­view images, the abil­ity to rate and share a design as well as com­ment on it.

OnePageLove.com

Once more a site for sin­gle page web­sites (again, not all sub­mis­sions are), but there are some really awe­some design there to dis­cover. Even bet­ter, there are exten­sive tags and cat­e­gories that make brows­ing so much more fun.

Screenalicious.com

Huge archive (10,000+ screen­shots), but unfor­tu­nately no com­fort­able way of brows­ing it. Once you click on a pre­view, you will have a color palette beneath the dis­played screen­shot. You can click on any color to call up sites using it as well, but that is about all there is for find­ing sim­i­lar sites.

WeLoveWP.com

As the name sug­gests, a show­case of really excel­lent Word­press themes. Can be browsed by categories.