The web is full of sites that provide quality content and services, and making yours stand out from the crowd can be hard. Most users surf the web by skimming over it, closing things because they don’t seem useful. Making your site stand out a bit can be a useful ploy to get your users to stick around for a bit longer to find out what you’re all about.

Red is one of the most powerful colors in the spectrum and for that reason it is usually used badly in websites, as it can easily overpower everything else. When used correctly though, red can be a great color to use in web design, and can add a strong touch to it. It can be used to highlight something, or even to make the website stand out more, helping to drag the user in. Below are over 30 red websites that make great use of the color red.

Over the past few years web designs have became more and more intricate, especially for websites that don’t revolve around content but a service.

In fact, many more artistic web designers have started adding lovely illustrations and characters (mascots) into their designs to create a more visually pleasing website. Below I present over 35 designs that show this, with beautiful illustrations, or just websites that use art in an interesting way, for inspiration.

Minimalism is a big movement not only in modern web design, but in art since around the mid 20th century. I stuck together this list of websites that manage to present their content in a minimalistic way. Some are more minimal than others, but whether they’re using single columns or a monochromatic colour scheme, these websites are definitely more minimal than the norm.

Sometimes it’s okay to design in flash. Other times it’s not. These 19 sites really show what a good flash website can bring to web development, with intuitive ideas, and creativity seeping from the edges.

As Web Designers we’ll often be put up to the challenge of making a website for a product or service that our client is offering. Compared to making a content orientated website, this is a completely different undertaking, and sometimes we need a bit of inspirations to get us going. For these reasons I’ve compiled a list of 20 awesome websites that are all based around a product. Enjoy.