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Smashing Magazine is becoming like A List Apart. Every post is just so good it has to be dugg. Do yourself a favor and just add the RSS Feed.

Good post for beginner web 2.0 designers.

Will have a look. Thanks

We require more minerals.

I cry for Helvetica.

Looks like their site couldn't handle the traffic, I can't get the link to load!

Edit: Duggmirror didn't catch it, but coral cache did.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com.nyud.net:8090/2007/05/21/60-elegant-and-visually-appealling-designs/

89 diggs and down already

Cookie cutter...nothing spectacular. Try the FWA, much better.

I wonder of the top sites are prepared for a digg effect ;)

Some are great, others are nice. How about:

http://www.sojasite.nl and http://www.modeblog.nl

Fantastic list.

As someone who has done his fair share of web design, everything from crappy table based *****, to high-tech css-overloaded web 2.0 wonders of doom, it is always very nice to see what others have done, if just for inspiration.

I am quite fond of this one, even if uses quite a few colours: http://www.playgroundblues.com/ - it's just very appealing to my eyes, for some reason.

Nice collection!

Check out the huge list of 8600 designs at http://www.screenalicio.us for more design inspiration.

60 Generic, Boring, Mediocre Designs

When the people who compile these lists are grabbing screenshots, do they fail to notice that everything looks exactly the same?

This could also be titled "60 elegant designs that all look the same"
or
"Screw the target market, designs made for designers to love"

Isn't there a way to force spell checking on headlines? Or disallow people who can't freaking spell?

i hate the fat headers. have to scroll down to get to content on every page that has the fat headers.

#60 looks vaguely like one of the cartoon clips on monty python.

Wow, my wife made one of those!

Check out their first example:-

http://www.tomas-design.com/about.html

Click on the navigation at the top. Talk about confusing.

Aaahh, web 2.0-gradiant-backdrop-minimalist-fat-header-crapola that wows the style-over-substance 'designers'.

Meanwhile, real people need usability.

For all you Kevin Rose lovers, this article contains this in the list

http://www.futureofwebapps.com/

which has Speaker Presentations & MP3s Podcast RSS Feed of Kevin Rose

Oh, jeez. Web page designs. I was hoping it would have been something more substantial... like industrial designs.

In reality I think that closing the digital divide is great, but I think most kids would rather ~$100 in food and shelter than $100 piece of plastic that requires $1000's more in investments just so they can have internet. $.30 a kid is great low cost, but I really don't see laptops a "necessity" for kids that have more important things to worry about. Lastly if governments can buy in the end 2 billion kids $100 laptops .. I’m sure they can build them all houses and feed them all too.

I find it odd that the actual article spelled "appealing" incorrectly

with web.20 tools.. wtf

Is it just me or does their first example on the list absolutely suck?

http://www.tomas-design.com/about.html

If the numbers on that list are in order from best to worst, that site has no business being listed #1... That design is nowhere near 'elegant.'

um are the first 3 posts spam? Seems like an advertisement to me...