How to find inspiration for the design of a website?

How to understand what a beautiful design and effective website?

The question may seem trivial, but it is not that much when you thought a bit. Indeed, in many cases, business leaders SOHO / SMEs struggle to appreciate the notion of site "beautiful and effective" versus a "cheesy and poorly designed" website, as we speak of an institutional site, a site of e-commerce, or a blog. They say, their internet references in their field are often limited to the sites of their competitors.

But when competitors' websites in question are several years old and was made by the Yellow Pages, the largest provider of website in France with more than 53 locations 00 (which made big progress in the last year webdesign) is often far from ...

This is not a criticism, just an observation, and it is normal for these entrepreneurs have more important things to do than surfing all day throwing "Whouuu beautiful header!" Alternatively "this Whouaaaa product rocks! ". It is rather my job! :-)

The solution for inspiration: webdesign galleries

Fortunately, there are people who get us a big thorn in the foot by bringing us on a platter the most beautiful sites as long as they categorize or dominant color.

These sites are a major source of inspiration to "feel" the trend of the moment, and form their own vision of what could be his future website.

Here is a selection of those I visit regularly:

Themeforest: another site is defined as a web design gallery for creative inspiration, and dealing with all types of site.

Designshack.co.uk: The reference site for webdesign CSS, which offers the most comprehensive, and probably the most frequently updated gallery. Their sorting system by dominant color, content structure, or type of site is super-efficient.

Cssheaven.com: website dealing webdesign in terms of CSS, which provides many links to other web designers galleries.

Welovewp.com: a web site dedicated to graphic themes of sites created with Wordpress.

With all that, no more excuses for not doing a good website to consult, to delight the eyes of your visitors and make them jealous competitors!