CSS galleries are great resources for inspiration as they list beautiful websites.

The Css Awards is an exciting gallery that follows a different system of valoration compared to others when deciding which sites to be presented.

Websites submitted are evaluated with an international jury of designers, agencies & bloggers (they were kind enough to ask me too) on different topics like design, creativity, content & usability.

And each day, a website is choosen the winner of the day where other quality websites are mentioned in the " Honorable Mention Gallery".

There is also an inspiration mode to view the entries easier & better.

It will help promoting your website

Besides inspiration, CSS galleries are unique places to promote a website. They forward traffic continiously as visitors generally digg the older entries too.

The Css Awards is one of the most popular galleries around, they advertise on several web design blogs & has a serious traffic to forward to the websites listed.

Also, they offer a professional submission where your website is submitted to 50 other popular CSS galleries which is useful for anyone that doesn't want to spend too much time on various submissions.

The discount

The Css Awards is offering a special discount code to WRD readers that saves you 50% while submitting with any of the options.

The code is: WRDcode and it is valid until 31 December 2009.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

Web & Patterns is a website that collects and displays screenshots of interface design patterns.

The patterns are very well categorized from forms to paginations or typography to breadcrumbs.

Every screenshot has a short definition that mentions "why it was added to the gallery" & anyone can share their thoughts about the screenshots.

Web & Patterns is a very nice resource for anyone who wants to quickly browse for an inspiration on a specific design element.

It is sometimes a scene, a color or just a thought. Designers can get inspired from anything.

letterPLAYGROUND is a community-driven resource for inspiration where users design letters how they wish.

In the website, a "p" can be a portrait of a girl or "w", the claw of a bird, totally up to the imagination of users.

With a free membership, anyone can upload their work, comment to other letters or create a favorites list.

Letters can be browsed easily & it is possible to see the most faved letters or choosing a specific letter & seeing its variations.

Concept Feedback is a free-to-use web application for getting feedback from a professional community about designs, concepts we created.

The feedback points are collected under several categories like design, purpose, engagement & originality. Also, you can read the written feedbacks of the community & discuss with them.

It works so simple:

• become a member (free)
• upload your design (website,advertisement, logo, etc.)
• receive the fedback from the community
• improve your design, get feedbacks again & compare with the previous one

And, as a member of the community, you can send feedbacks to the works of other users.

There are various galleries which enables us to view beautiful websites & get inspired.

In general, these websites are categorized & presented by their purposes/functions like blogs, business, portfolio, etc.

CSSbake has a different point of view & categorizes websites with their ingredients such as:

• 404 pages
• footers
• forms
• navigation
• & much more..

which is a good way for anyone who is trying to find good practices on specific elements of a website.

Pattern App (previously UI Pattern Factory) is both an user interface design pattern library and UI gallery where it is possible to find the best practices, get inspired, and share your solutions with others.

The website is mostly focused on web-based business applications & shares patterns like:

• Refining Search
• Progress Indicator
• Stacked Tabs & more..

Pattern App is also a place where you can ask & vote for new pattern ideas in their forum or add new images to the currently published ones via Flickr.

Well-categorized design patterns are great resources for inspiration. You can easily see how "others" found a succesful way for common design problems.

UI Patterns is an online library which shares design patterns in various categories like:

• image zoom
• input feedback
• password strength meter & many more.

There are 3 main categories in the website:

• design patterns
• screenshot collections:
• user sets (user submitted collections)

Also, you can easily contribute to the content & check out the UI Patterns blog which has informative posts.

INSPIRE is an online publication of Adobe Experience Design Team which will attract anyone into software, web & graphic design.

The team shares valuable, real-life experiences both written & via videos.

To give a better idea about the resource, here are some of the recent content published:

• Collecting User Feedback: You’re Doing It Wrong
• Icons In Space

INSPIRE is updated regularly & you can find something new almost everyday.

Fluid is an open source software community that:

• builds user interfaces and commonly used interactions
• teaches others how to build good user-centred designs
• works with other software projects to integrate created solutions into their applications.

They have ready-to-use solutions that will attract both designers & developers.

Fluid Infusion

A set of rich, reusable, accessible web UI components. They are built with usability and accessibility in mind. All are unobtrusive & degrade gracefully.

Some of the components are:

• A very nice file uploader
• Sortable jQuery tabs
• Standalone image re-orderer

Fluid Open Source Design Pattern Library

A resource presenting design patterns in detail. Currently, it is not a huge library but updated regularly & will be very handy in the future.

Fluid Design Handbook

A guide on user-centered design (UCD) techniques you can use to learn from your users and design better user experiences.

It has information on a variety of UCD practices, from performing user research and creating models (such as personas and scenarios to inform the design process) to performing UX walkthroughs and user testing of your website or application.

Infragistics Quince, a website with a stunning interface (built with Silverlight), is presenting user experience design patterns in a well-categorized format.

There is a wide list of patterns that vary from breadcumbs to alternating row colors and dashboards to forms.

Patterns can be browsed by:

• user tasks
• tag relationships
• wireframe

Even if the content is not what you are looking for, the usability of the website offers a quality UX inspiration.