Well Designed Websites:

• The Webby Awards: the leading international honor for the world's best web sites. Current category winners.
• Yahoo! Picks 2001: recognizes the most exceptional web sites of 2001.
• My all-time favorite site by Balthaser. Created around 1998. Runs for about 10 minutes. Turn up your speakers for this one!
• Web Washer
• Chipotle: fun, interactive and funky.
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus: novel way of representing words.
• The Spoonbenders Course: remarkable design, images and sound.
• Annoyances.org: Clean look, nice use of tables.
• Fincentric: crisp, nice navigation, images.
• 20 days in Spring, 2003: Creative presentation of thoughts and images on the war in Iraq
• Airstream Travel Trailers: Nice colors, design and presentation.
• Little Man Productions: Artist's site.
• I love the sound on this guy's first page! Click refresh to hear it again!
• Wait All Day.com. Make sure your status bar is visible at the bottom of your browser (go to View > Status Bar in IE to have it show) and watch it while this site loads.
• Nobody Here: Creative, Left-brain award-winning website.

Creative Flash Websites

• Fido.se
• Fuckdesign
• Shadowness
• Levitated.net: mathematical algorithyms used to create creative and evolving effects.
• True Majority: creative use of Flash along top.
• I Love Live: Remarkable site advertising XBox.
• MiniUSA.: Website for the mini car. Customize your own.
• Macromedia Showcase: great Flash sites, as chosen by the creators of Flash.
• Flashmove: award-winning Flash sites, resources and tutorials.
• Flash Film Festival: more award-winning Flash sites.
  

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Poorly designed websites