There’s a shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet. Every day more utility is being delivered over the Web. Full applications can now be run in a browser, accessible from any computer. Software? It’s no longer required. Software is becoming Webware.
We need to look at some professional and successful web applications in order to get inspiration. There are a lot of the top web applications in this place. It is called Webware which is the site where computer users can learn about new and useful Web applications. You might want to have a look at Webware 100 which showcases the top 100 web applications.
Webware is edited by Rafe Needleman. Rafe was Editor of CNET.com in the early days, 1997 to 1998. During the dot-com bubble he worked at Red Herring, where he wrote Catch of the Day, a daily online column about startups. In the three years of writing the column he interviewed more than 1,000 startup CEOs.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.webware.com
License: N/A
Have you ever thinking of downloding over 650 Vector Logos from one place? You can download all of the vector logos immediately after you have registered on All Free Logo. Those logos are resiziable with really high quality. They are really good for inspiration. Go and get them now.
Requirements: Required Registeration
Demo: http://www.allfreelogo.com/
License: License Free
Showcase Point is a daily updated showcase for website showcases / galleries all over the world which contains a lot of nice CSS showcases and flash showcases. Website showcases are very important to webmasters. They can drive a lot of traffic to your website once your site is published on one of the most popular showcases. We love to submit our websites to those showcaes, however where can we find them?
Showcase Point is the one designed to help you find the nice showcases, and provide you a place to do the review, discussions about the showcase. They also provide you the PageRank for reference. Once you have find the chosen ones, you can press “Submit†button, submit your site through a popup window easily without leaving the list of showcases. I think it is a really good source of inspiration.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.showcasepoint.com
License: License Free
Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. He has been designing for several years and his works has been published on numbers of magazines. WDW serves as his public blog where he posts his design ideas, design techniques, tutorials, and talk about modern web design trends.
Nick La said
“Why Web Designer Wall? As a designer, I often have a lot of ideas that flow in my mind; usually I draw them on my sketch pad and then paste on the wall. This is how the name was created — a wall of ideas.”
The design of Web Designer Wall is amazing. There are a lot of useful resources about design. His latest article on Vector Illustration Trend is inspiring as well.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.webdesignerwall.com
License: N/A
Let me introduce you an extraordinary art design weblog. Design You Trust is a cool design weblog and design portfolio by Dmitry Utkin. You can see a lot of most stunning and attractive design for Web, Identity, Print, Graphic and Industrial. You would be amazed how talented they are by looking at those design and art. Trust me, they are the design you can trust. I am sure you can get lots of inspiration from there.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://designyoutrust.com
License: N/A
How do you package your application? Have a look at these, they have done a really good job. They should be able to give you some inspiration of designing your website or web application in Mac style as well.
1. Disco – Mac Disc Burning
2. Versions – Mac Subversion Client
3. Checkout – Point of Sale for Mac
4. Pixelmator – Image Editing for the Rest of Us
5. KiINVOICE – Invoicing Made Simple
6. Delicious Library – Catelog, Browse and Share Your Stuff
7. Warehouse – Subversion Browser
8. Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac
9. CSSEdit – Web 2.0 in Style
10. Cha-Ching – Fun and Easy to Use Money Manager
Do you have your favourite ones in your mind? Feel free to suggest them, I will add it to the list. Please bookmark this, this post is regularly updated.
The FWA : Favourite Website Awards is a Flash based website gallery. It shows all the cutting edge and beautiful websites. The FWA interface is scaleable to the nth degree and allow users to view as much content as their monitors and dual monitors will permit. So that you can view as many stunning websites as possible in full screen. Let’s get inspiration now!
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.thefwa.com/
License: N/A
SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in each of 41 categories, e.g. Business, Blog Guides, Real Estate, Web Development and Design, Mashups and Marketing,etc. From there, they assembled a team of 25 of the most knowledgeable, well-respected experts in the field to vote on the winners. Do enjoy the best of web 2.0!
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/
License: N/A
LogoPond is a Logo showcase gallery. It contains more than 10000 logos from 6000+ members. Most of the logos look really impressive and professional. LogoPond is a great place to inspire yourself fantastic logo designs. Create a new user account and you can start sharing your wonderful logos as well.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://logopond.com
License: N/A
FeedMyApp is a showcase of web 2.0 application. They classify web apps by tagging them and creating a brief description for each one listed. You can browse the directory by tag or by date or you can search for apps using the search box. It is really a good source of design inspiration and get an idea of what needs to be a successful web application.
Requirements: Web 2.0 Applications
Demo: http://www.feedmyapp.com
License: N/A
