2008年国外50个最佳CSS设计

2008年，越来越多的设计师开始使用超大的背景图片技术和一些JavaScript框架（如jQuery及MooTools）来提高用户体验。还有一些设计师将Flash和CSS混合使用。也许我们能从中发现2009年的新网页设计趋势？

以下50个CSS网站是2008年由WebDesignerWall评选出来的，很具参考价值。我们在欣赏的同时，也能从中吸取很多灵感，也能从它们的源代码中学习更高级的CSS技术。

Let It Bleed

Big bold visual images make this website stand out from the crowd.

Vermont Coffee Works

Good use of Flash mixed with CSS.

Digital Mash

Good

Good visual and content-focused design.

Wilson Miner

DrupalCon, DC

Future of Web Apps - Miami 2009

An excellent mixture of big font and grungy effects.

Housing Works

Nice use of large background on the homepage. Large background web design is very hot lately.

Future of Web Design - NYC 2008

Another nice example of large background design.

Tennessee - Fall

I have to admit, Tennessee’s sites are one of the best series — Fall, Spring, Summer, and Winter.

Tennessee - Spring

Tennessee - Summer

Tennessee - Winter

Five Runs

Branded07

Cappuccino

A very origanized site with great usability.

LightCMS

LightCMS incorporated some pencil/sketchy effects, yet maintained its corporate feel.

The First Twenty

Nicely designed one-page site.

YouLove.Us

Great implementation of CSS and Javascript (jQuery).

Luke Larsen

The aquarium themed portfolio of Luke Larsen demonstrates great use of jQuery’s Scrollto plugin.

Design Disease

Wavy and rounded shapes make this site look fun and interesting.

Adaptd

Although the design style reminds me of ISO50 (Scott Hansen), but it is worth to mention.

Jason Santa Maria

Electricurrent

Notice how Electricurrent used the background image technique to display the portfolio images?

Training by Collective Idea

MacAllan Ridge

Good visual design, easy navigation — two thumbs up.

Pikaboo

A cool design that combined CSS, Javascript, and Flash technology.

Mochi Ads

Fling Media

eWedding

Viget

Viget did a great job on branding their image by maintaining the consistency throughout their series of blogs — Inspire, Advance, Engage, and Extend.

Viget - Inspire

Viget - Advance

Viget - Engage

Viget - Extend

August

An awesome design that used Flash scalable image as the background (resize your browser to see the scalable background).

Car Freaks

This blog frequently change their homepage background photo to provide refreshing feel.

Go To China

Here is a perfect example that uses high resolution photos for website’s background. Notice the background image is scalable based on your browser size (done by Javascript CSS).

Jesus Christ

Billy Hughes

Free People

FreePeople is my all time favorite design (love the collage style).

Mouse to Minx

Retro and sexy.

Dara’s Garden

Design Sponge

The scrapbook design style is a perfect match for the site’s content.

Ma.tt

The Lippincott

Hot Meteor

Love the hot retro font!

Fortyseven Media

The Old State

It is rare to find such a beautiful black and white theme.