CSS galleries are not just an excellent source of inspiration for a web developer looking for ideas or well executed websites but also a great source of traffic and backlinks to your site. Getting featured on one of these sites is not just about recognition, it also might help you rank better in search engines over time.
Nowadays there are hundreds of galleries providing quality picks. The vast majority focus on valid XHTML and CSS designs, omitting Flash-websites. With so many sites to chose from, new types of web services emerged, allowing you to automatically submit to an entire list of web galleries for a fee, services like Meecss or TheCSSGalleryList. But what happens when you don’t want to pay that fee (around $20)? There’s just one solution – searching for a CSS galleries list and submitting to each one at a time.
With the launch of version 3 of our website, my task over the last couple of days here at Stone Soup was to compile a list of CSS galleries and submit to as many as possible. Getting featured on web galleries takes up to 2 weeks. After 5 days Stone Soup already got featured on many of these sites (Screenalicious, CSSBased, 101BestWebsites to name just a few) and we experienced the traffic spikes they cause (they’re nowhere near a Digg effect however there’s a significant increase in traffic stats)
The next step is to share with you the galleries I gathered along with page ranks and submit links for your easy submission. But aren’t there lists like these somewhere else on the web? Yes there are. Most of them list over 100 web galleries. If you’ll do a quick Google search for “css galleries list” the top three results are TheCSSGalleryList, CSSGalleryList and WebGalleryList. All are quality lists however they aren’t perfect. For example TheCSSGalleryList.com divides the list in 2 sections (“Featured” and “Other” galleries) and doesn’t list as many sites as WebGalleryList.com. WebGalleryList.com gathered 241 entries however there are no submit links and many of the sites listed there are no longer live.
To wrap it up, why this list and not others:
it’s fresh(and I’ll try to keep it fresh with your help) – all these links have been verified yesterday
contains only English galleries. (when it comes to page rank you need all the traffic you can get – however you must agree that it’s really hard to find the submit options on this one)
currently lists over 200 galleries(more entries than other lists)
galleries are listed along with google page rank, alexa rank and submit links – you can order the list by clicking on the table headings.
you can download this list in xls and xml formatand maintain it yourself or feature it on your website.
Feel free to suggest additions to this list or notify me about dead links using the form below.
Good luck with your submission!
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23 Responses to “
A MORE COMPLETE & UP TO DATE list of CSS Galleries ”
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Hi.
Thanks for featuring us in this great article!
September 8th, 2009 at 10:43 amYou’re very welcome!
September 8th, 2009 at 10:59 amgreat list, unfortunately, my site is not there, shame
September 9th, 2009 at 5:42 amWe’ll get you added!
September 9th, 2009 at 10:09 amHello,
great list, but can you please add http://www.thewebbased.com to your list,
thanks
September 21st, 2009 at 5:03 amIt takes a lot to get me impressed these days and you’ve managed to do it with this comprehensive list.
Thanks for sharing,
Karl
September 21st, 2009 at 5:08 pmhi!
September 24th, 2009 at 4:09 pmthanks for featuring wpforest
The most complete list I know. Thanks!
September 29th, 2009 at 6:15 pm[...] üblichen Verzeichnis). Eine nette Liste ausgewählter, guter CSS Directories findet sich z.B. bei stonesouptech oder [...]
October 5th, 2009 at 4:59 pm[...] featured on CSS Based
I never realized how many CSS showcase galleries there were out there until, well, I started looking. I mean seriously, over 200? I suppose [...]
October 15th, 2009 at 12:33 am@Birger: there’s actually a more complete list at http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/web-design-galleries/
November 15th, 2009 at 11:40 pmI want to suggest our new site to your list – http://inspirationdatabase.com
nice list indeed..
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:24 am[...] are submitting your website.Stone Soup Tech’s Updated List Of CSS GalleriesUnlike the above, StoneSoupTech do not offer a website submission service to listed directories.However, what they do say is that [...]
February 5th, 2010 at 9:06 amvery good link-list. I think the largest css-gallerie list ever seen. Very good. Thanks!
March 30th, 2010 at 10:06 amPlease add http://supersit.es to the list. Thanks!
April 24th, 2010 at 9:12 amThat’s an amazing list of css galleries. How much time do you need to keep it up to date?
Please feel free to add my gallery http://www.webdesigngallery.org to your list, too.
August 10th, 2010 at 12:50 pmHello,
September 21st, 2010 at 4:01 amGreat list and great article.
Please also consider http://www.cssgallerypro.com
Thanks
Please+add+my+site+http://www.globalcssgallery.com/
December 23rd, 2010 at 6:01 amI hope you will add http://CSSCollector.com to your next revision.
June 15th, 2011 at 3:43 pmPlease+also+add+http://www.csspost.com/+PR3+and+http://www.cssfame.com/+PR1+galleries+to+your+list.+They+are+updated+daily!
Thank+you
February 10th, 2012 at 2:30 pmHi, Please can you add: http://www.goldstardesigns.co.uk/
Thank you!
February 21st, 2012 at 9:05 pmand: http://www.cssrocket.co.uk/
February 21st, 2012 at 9:05 pmI like this post because its really an informative effort.It will be very helpful for most of them.
Good Post!! Great effort!
February 24th, 2012 at 6:52 am