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Join For FreeWeb design and CSS galleries are a great source of inspiration for designers, and they are also an outstanding resource for designers to get exposure for their work. Getting a site featured in some of the most popular galleries can bring thousands of visitors and some valuable inbound links.
There are so many different galleries that it’s hard to know which ones are worth the time it takes to submit your site for inclusion. If you’re going to take the time to submit one of your designs to some galleries you might as well submit to those that will give you the best results.
What factors should be considered when choosing which galleries you would like to feature your work? Of course, galleries with more traffic will give your submission more exposure. Additionally, most galleries have RSS feeds and subscribers. So obviously the more subscribers a gallery has, the more exposure you will get. However, some galleries do not include screen shots in their feed. In these cases the subscriber will have to click-through to the site to view it, which will normally mean a little bit less exposure for your work. Also, with so many galleries out there, some are very active and some rarely add anything new. If you are submitting your site to a gallery that has added 75 new designs in the past month, you’ll have a better chance of being included than if you submit to a gallery that has only added 1 design in the last month. On the other hand, the more designs that are featured in a gallery, the less attention each one will get individually.
Because I think all of these factors should be considered by designers that are targeting CSS galleries, I thought it would be helpful to create a table that showed this data for a number of galleries. Using this information you can quickly identify which ones are the best choices to submit your work. The galleries are listed in order of Alexa rank, but you should also pay attention to the other factors as well.
| CSS Gallery | Alexa | Subscribers | Added in March | Pics in Feed? |
| CSS Mania | 13,570 | 12,635 | 311 | yes |
| CSS Drive | 23,116 | n/a | 29 | yes |
| CSS Beauty | 25,112 | n/a | 5 | yes |
| Web Creme | 25,559 | n/a | 58 | no |
| Favorite Website Awards | 27,391 | no feed | 31 | no feed |
| Best Web Gallery | 28,102 | n/a | 87 | yes |
| CSS Remix | 29,858 | 16,693 | no dates | no |
| Stylegala | 38,743 | n/a | 0 | yes |
| Cool Homepages | 38,783 | no feed | 3 | no feed |
| CSS Elite | 42,846 | 2,737 | 74 | no |
| CSS Vault | 48,978 | n/a | 31 | yes |
| FaveUp | 54,894 | n/a | 11 (CSS) | yes |
| CSS Creme | 57,050 | 289 | 179 | yes |
| Design Shack | 62,139 | n/a | 100+ | yes |
| The Best Designs | 65,228 | no feed | 59 | no feed |
| W3C Sites | 65,953 | n/a | no dates | no |
| Unmatched Style | 77,871 | 3,545 | 32 | yes |
| CSS Based | 82,349 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| Screenfluent | 90,287 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| Screenalicious | 93,621 | n/a | no dates | no |
| CSS Heaven | 96,061 | n/a | 4 | yes |
| CSS Import | 117,396 | 8,667 | 70 | yes |
| CSS Clip | 118,313 | 653 | 230 | yes |
| Styleboost | 118,431 | n/a | 6 | yes |
| Web Digity | 125,485 | n/a | no dates | no |
| CSS Gallery 2.0 | 137,614 | no feed | no dates | no feed |
| Boxed CSS | 142,164 | n/a | 29 | yes |
| CSS Website | 142,373 | 763 | 2 | yes |
| Design Snack | 144,613 | n/a | no dates | no |
| CSS Artillery | 158,827 | n/a | 50 | yes |
| CSS Glance | 167,939 | n/a | 100+ | no |
| The Daily Slurp | 182,358 | n/a | 100+ | yes |
| CSS Website Gallery | 196,126 | 46 | 5 | yes |
| CSS Collection | 199,695 | n/a | 45 | yes |
| CSS Reboot | 202,730 | n/a | 0 | no |
| Professional on the Web | 211,584 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| CSS Star | 220,491 | 76 | 173 | yes |
| CSS Tux | 235,692 | no feed | 14 | no feed |
| CSS Bloom | 237,028 | 1,527 | 0 | yes |
| CSSHive | 238,990 | 73 | 73 | yes |
| DesignFlavr | 242,301 | 1,282 | 84 | yes |
| Design by Grid | 257,249 | n/a | 6 | yes |
| CSS Daddy | 268,324 | 8 | 64 | yes |
| No Resolution | 272,482 | 5,954 | 2 | yes |
| CSS Impress | 290,353 | n/a | 32 | yes |
| CSS Princess | 314,182 | 20 | 9 | no |
| CSS Leak | 319,340 | n/a | 65 | yes |
| Web Design Gallery | 337,963 | 244 | 14 | yes |
| My3W | 385,465 | n/a | 78 | yes |
| Inspiration King | 391,490 | 5,700 | 0 | no |
| Pro Web Art | 396,603 | 324 | 65 | yes |
| CSS Flavor | 397,298 | n/a | 1 | yes |
| CSS Container | 417,117 | no feed | 100+ | no feed |
| The Horizontal Way | 417,158 | n/a | 0 | yes |
| CSS Burst | 439,050 | no feed | 0 | no feed |
| Hotwebber | 442,827 | 83 | 38 | yes |
| CSS Zone | 456,876 | n/a | 59 | no |
| CSS Hazard | 475,108 | n/a | 0 | yes |
| CSS Gallery | 502,992 | 4 | 83 | yes |
| design|snips | 522,013 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| Designer Source | 553,625 | 80 | 34 | yes |
| CSS Love | 573,271 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| Design Grabs | 585,085 | n/a | 100+ | no |
| Design Creme | 615,345 | 112 | no dates | no |
| CSSEM | 615,507 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| The Designed Tree | 625,271 | 256 | 5 | yes |
| Lookum | 635,229 | n/a | 5 | yes |
| CSS Moon | 731,776 | n/a | 69 | yes |
| Designs Creme | 767,905 | n/a | 0 | yes |
| NiceStylesheet | 780,609 | 73 | 50 | yes |
| CSS Snap | 797,809 | n/a | 0 | yes |
| Carted Up | 831,381 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| Genuine Style | 838,273 | n/a | 0 | yes |
| CSS Smooth Operator | 871,589 | n/a | 4 | yes |
| One Star Gallery | 890,050 | n/a | 10 | yes |
| Plastic Pilots | 894,329 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| CSS Band | 1,151,978 | n/a | no dates | yes |
| CSS Warfare | 1,166,983 | n/a | 100+ | no |
| CSS Fuel | 1,298,931 | n/a | 19 | no |
| Refresh | 1,490,008 | n/a | 0 | no |
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