CSS is a brilliant “tool” that helps the web developer to create awesome designs and effects and furthermore, to change them afterwards easily and without the need of going deep in the code. If you are new to cascading style sheets then the best way to learn it is to visualize what you can achieve. Thankfully there are thousands of websites made with CSS, some of them are ok, some of them are not so good but a few of them are simply amazing. These amazing examples should be your inspiration in your learning process and you should try to create something similar, for education purposes.

In the showcase below you will find 20 extremely well made websites which implement a lot of CSS techniques in order to achieve stunning visual effects. Load them, look in their source code, see how the css works and try to understand the mechanics because this will help you a lot.

CSS is so important to a website that I really don’t think that there’s an alternative to it; sure thing, you can avoid it if you want but I can guarantee that you won’t be able to achieve the same level of quality without it. Furthermore, combining it with HTML 5 and jQuery will give you superhero skills and you will virtually be able to create any type of website as long as it doesn’t require a database.

So, check out the examples below and let me know what you think.

OX.PE

KircherBurkhardt

Nulab Inc.

Subsign

Marmoset

O Dia do Baralho

Webplace Digital Agency

Miagui Imagevertising

Sánchez Romero Carvajal

Trama

Mindworks

Waaac

Mozart

Convoy

Humblebee

The Dangers of Drug Driving

parallax.js

Studio None

Codetex Group

The Sign