Cool Home Pages

Coolhomepages.com is a great resource for design inspirations. This site basically features well designed websites sorted by all different kinds of design styles. You can sort by Color Schemes, Flash, Non-Flash, Clean Design, Corporate, Logos, Experimental pages, and other styles just to name a few.

When I'm starting to design a new web site, I determine what the purpose of this website and who is going to be targeted audience. Once you figure out that information can start to think of how the website is going to layout in your mind and start to sketch a concept of the site. This site is a huge inspiration in creating how I want the web site to look.

On Coolhomepages.com you can find a wide range of variety of styles and designs. Some of the sites listed on coolhomepages is really cutting edge design and technology. The Flash section of this site shows quite a few sites that are using amazing Flash techniques with scripting and animation. You could literally spend hours on this site looking at all the different web sites that have really good design styles.

Other great features of Coolhomepages.com are the designer forums, web site and logo templates, and stock images. These are great resources when trying to come up with a design concept. The site also sells web site templates which is kind of "cheating", but for the novice web designer, it could save valuable time and provide you with an "out of the box" well designed site.

The Coolhomepages.com site itself is a simple and clean page using some CSS code to style text but oddly enough is using tables for the framework. That kind of makes you laugh thinking about it; a web design resource using old design techniques. However, the design is still effective and has a clean style.