The Top 80 CSS Galleries

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The Top 80 CSS Galleries

Steven Snell

Apr. 08, 08 · Web Dev Zone ·

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Web 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