Stunning list!
I adore the minimal approach to design evident in some of these sites.

That’s great! Thank you so much for your amazing job!

I really love solution with menu in 60, lightness of the first, style of 51, woman on 16 :-), and just great design 28.

Wohooo… thanks for including my site :)

great list!! as always

is so beautiful~~@@

Very nice compilation. Love smashingmagazine! Keep the good job.

Some of the designs don’t match my taste. Number 44 for example, the brown design of Quo Consulting has neither a good color, nor do I like the color-in-color approach.

On the other hand, other designs listed here are stunning.
Thanks for this list!

Nice list - thank you. Have really enjoyed this blog since finding it last year - keep up the great work!

David

Thank you for including not only one, but two of my sites.

more quality then last time! last is my favorite …

@andy: Interesting; the brown-on-brown Quo site was one of my favorites. One man’s junk and all that. Now I just wish anything I tried to put together looked like these!

Wow! Polish Jogger is on the list! Way to go! :-D

There are some pretty good pieces of work listed here, many of which I’ve come across already. It’s pretty amazing what people are doing with design and CSS on the web these days.

One note, your screenshot of Elixir didn’t quite finish loading it seems (the middle image is not complete).

A good list, but you forgot one: Link [www.bmindful.com]

57. Nonedesign is a semi-blatant copy of Link [www.astheria.com] :/

Great list, I really love some of the minimalist designs you have listed. Thanks for all the work!

Awesome list!

And Jogger! Congratulations to Rid. ^^

AWesome list, awesome designs! ;)
And awesome Riddle and his Jogger.pl :D

Thanks for including my site. I’m very excited

Thank you for the great overview. There are some great designs. A fresh design that I also like is

Link [www.sojasite.n]

I stopped paying attention after I saw that 7 out of the first 10 sites had that horrible Web 2.0-licious lime green color (or some variant of it) as a key element.

Seriously, why does every site these days have to use that? It’s painful.

These are breathtaking. Well done!

Fantasic Article again, Dugg!

I love the new direction that people are taking, with the ability to design at 1000px there is so much more ‘pop!’ that people can do!

Great list!

Link [www.feelbreeze.com] is pretty close to Link [campaignmonitor.com] (especially the copy)

even the application screens look the same… is Campaign Monitor licensing their product now?

Most of the sites listed in the articles are stunning and some of them are simply mind-blowing! I wish I have the skills needed to create sites like these. Guess I’ll have to stick with coding, eh?

Great article, BTW.

Great! you are great looking good designs, I was needed some of inspiration, this was very usefull

Great post.

2bill: Because they look good. Very clean, simple and useful. This is just evolution.

Nice list! Got really good picks

What is not mentioned is that a fairly large number of these sites appear to have been built using the Apple “easy-peasy” web templates accompanying it’s very low-end iWeb web-page editor that ships for free with the Mac. So if this is good design, the folks at Apple should get the award for at least a third of these sites. :-)

This site is nothing but junk lists. Sure they have useful articles once in a while but all these lists are just useless and not journalism. I think they should rename this site BoringMagazine.

Some very nice designs in there, glad to see more designers using white space in their designs.

Eric: Breeze is using MailBuild, which is a reseller version of Campaign Monitor. No harm, no foul, they’re doing exactly what MailBuild encourages companies to do.

Superb list! I can’t believe I haven’t seen some of these great designs before.

I’m noticing a theme here:
- large blocks of solid color
- repeating header bars of color
- tons of “dead” space around text and images
- cutesy iconography with gradient textures

I think that sums up the graphical style of Web 2.0

Nice selections all, I put a post in the SG forums, challenging the forum users to define how many are good enough for Stylegala. I think everyone’s just to busy to write up the reviews anymore.

Join the discussion there if you like:
Link [forum.stylegala.com]

Some very nice designs in there, glad to see more designers using white space in their designs. Thanks :)

You have out done yourselves again Smashing Magazine, thanks for the great list!

Don’t forget that beauty is only screen-deep. To point out a few not-so-well-formed examples: #1 and #9 uses some span spacers. Hello, what’s the point of using CSS if there are going to be spacer elements? And both #1 and #2 uses strict XHTML but still serves it as faux-XHTML _AND_ uses an XML prolog (what’s the point?). Don’t try viewing source for #18, it is pure horror. #19 is a nice bowl of Dreamweaver tag soup; #20 is a lighter serving.

I strongly agree with Link [www.smashingmagazine.com] here.

Great post. Always helps to have inspriation when embarking on a new design, and there are definitely some top notch designs on this list. I’ve made this blog a regular read!

Wow! Great list, thanks for sharing! Definitely inspired.

Great list, thanks a lot !

Dark colors seem to be the bg color to go with at the moment - personally i wish there were more lighter color shemes out there.

wow, looking at all these sites really inspires me to design! fantastic compilation of some of the coolest looking sites i’ve seen so far! :D

Great list! Let me add 2 more sites:

Link [www.RespiroMedia.com] - Christian web site design services
Link [www.ReLogoDesign.com] - Custom logo design services

Enjoy!

GREATTTTTT!!!

great looking designs with all the modern and yet effective trends. thanks for the overview.

Very nice list ! A great source on inspiration.

Your selected sites are a holiday for my eyes!
Especially glad to see #46 - a Croatian site!
Where in the web heavens did you find it?

Keep smashing!

Great list as always. Some of these aren’t my taste but can see why they might be liked. Keep up the good work

60?! that’s just excessive. could you not whittle it down?

Speechless! Some wonderful examples - real gems. Love Fluid Book and Svenigson. Thanks for putting this list together - what an inspiration!

Genuinely Inspirational, thanks!

Every site is cool… The navigation of last site #60 is SLICK..

Thanks for including one my site! :)

wow! really beautiful…

I really like the simplicity of Web 2.0 designs. the down side is the lack of complete creativity. However some did show more then just whitespace and gradients.

Cool!
I found a CV in the list.
How do you think, my CV is elegant too or not?

awsome list however a couple sites is off in IE6

where is Link [www.bartelme.at]?

Impressive list, though.

Nice list. Some of the design are truly stunning. Thanks for it.

Wow big suprise they ALL look the same!! Kind of like eating the same thing for lunch each day.

Smashlab use the same style that apple uses in his sites.. so splendid
sorry guys…

Excellent list once again, some a bit too similar - don’t forget to check out Link [www.seventhvision.com.au]

The designs are indeed beautiful in their own way though as some have said very similar in nature, style and even content to a certain degree. While I personally still like the style of using soft features, rounded edges, subtle gradients and the like it would be nice to see something not so common. For example when I first saw the electric pulp site I thought, hey, that’s beautiful, but different.

What about Link [www.webdesignfromscratch.com] also?

This time you’ve really spoilt us! Thanks

@Jeff Woelker

I don’t agree with you that there’s a “web 2.0″ style. It’s just whats fashionable right now, and it will eventually change independently from “web 2.0″ (what ever that is).

hey smash look whats hot on del.icio.us right now…. hahaha
Link [tutorialblog.org]
looks VERY similar.. don’t you think?? the dirty dirty bastards..

The header of Tomas Lebda site kind of looks like the top of GF ( Link [www.grapefruit.ro] )

another flash website:
Link [www.pedymx.com]

On site #10, revyver.com, the author calls himself “an award-winning designer and blogger with a knack for business” and says that he wants to “provide compelling and unique design that ultimately helps your bottom line”. He then proceeds to tell the reader that if they are using IE to view his site, then they have come to the wrong place.

Is he kidding?

Literally all these designs are similar. “Web2.0″ IS A JOKE. It’s just a style/hype/fashion that eventually every designer will start doing and will become a norm in no time.

Blah..

Nice collection of websites and some have good logos.

Awesome list once again. Thanks a lot guys!

Absolutely inspiring. Thanks for the list.

Great list. The only problem I had with it was Bistrian Iosip’s blog (http://blog.bistrianiosip.com). If you read a few paragraph’s of Bistrian’s blog, it sounds like it was written by a 10 year old… not a good thing for a blog. I know these sites are being listed for their visual appeal, but if attention to detail was also listed as one of the criteria, and that should include grammar.

Playground Blues is beautiful, the rest is boring.

Hi! Really cool selection… I love “NoneDesign” one… I will do my own selection in my blog… Link [www.unaigarmendia.com]

Nice one. Thanks

Nice site with good logos!

Inspiring :)

Interesting.

Thank you for sharing

Really inspiring

Any suggestions as to how to improve my site?
Link [www.HowOldAmI.com]

Starting with webdesign its alot of help,really (times infinity)great sites,thanks…

WOW!!! the designs are amazing…

You guys have the best damn content i’ve come across for a long time.

I’m currently using Link [www.adambreckler.com] the “high-rise” theme

Thanks for your post. I like OUTLINE to DESIGN (№36) very much. It’s the best website design I’ve ever seen.

Hi there!
A wonderful list of themes with an increadibly big serviceableness.

Cool post. I always have only good emotions

The #60 design is just awesome, brand new idea. #41, something similar we used for a project a couple years back, but is much better then mine. Great Collection. Thanks.

I like nr 17 best!

While 1-4 of these are really unique, all the others, while attractive, also seem expected and cliche.

its really superb and great study material…

Thanks for this great list, it is absolutely great :) Here is one that you could consider adding: Link [www.jukeboxb2b.com]

This is the best site I have ever found for design inspiration. I you know better please send a link.

Best site ever for inspiration. A picture is still worth a thousand words!

This is a really nice list of websites! Great design, great inspiration!

Best Regards,
Jonathan

These sites really fit the word elegant. Highly conceptual and inspirational.

Damola

Really cool link..I love it..ples post more…

I like very much. My creativity will increase on seeing your website.
Thank a lot.

Finally I hope you must update more design especially floral motive design also

These are excellent sites with several unique and highly creative concepts and designs I had not thought of…very inspiring. My favs were 17, 22, and 36. Thanks!

Great post definitely worth marking with StumbleUpon. Keep up the great work!

Ya I agree with your article because you say right web designer have a creative mind they design the sites with their good ideas.