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Submit to CSS Winner

CSS Winner is a CSS gallery and web design awards site that picks Stars, Sites of the Day and Sites of the Month from paid submissions. Each accepted site gets a detail page, and the designer or agency gets a profile.

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csswinner.com · Checked Sep 23, 2026

CSS Winner at a glance

Pricing: Paid; $15 per submission; rejected submissions are refunded
Link type: Nofollow; Detail page https://www.csswinner.com/details/hobro-digital/19407 links to https://hobro.digital with rel="nofollow" (checked 2026-09-23)
Review: Manual review
Link back required: No
Account required: No
Domain Rating: DR75; Domain Rating by Ahrefs, checked Sep 24, 2026. A score of the whole site’s backlinks, not a Google metric.
Tranco rank: #313,518; Research top-sites ranking. Lower is more popular.
Who browses it: Designers, developers and agencies browsing website designs
Last checked: Sep 23, 2026

How to submit to CSS Winner

Open the CSS Winner submission page
This is the page makers use to add a product.
Have your assets ready
Name, tagline, description, logo and screenshots. The checklist below covers what to prepare so you can fill the form in one go.
Fill in the form carefully
Pick the most specific category the form offers and write the description for the people who browse CSS Winner (Designers, developers and agencies browsing website designs), not for search engines.
Wait for review
A person reviews submissions, so it can take a while. Once it’s live, check the link on your listing points to the right page.

Tips for CSS Winner

Prepare a 1100x770 JPG screenshot; it is required.
Pick up to 5 style tags and write a description of at most 170 characters.
Add collaborators so every designer or agency involved gets profile credit.

From CSS Winner’s own guidelines and pages, in our words.

What to prepare

The basics every directory asks for, plus what matters most for design directories.

Product name and a one-line tagline (about 60 characters)
A short description (1–2 sentences) and a longer one (a short paragraph)
Square logo, at least 256×256 px, PNG or SVG
2–3 screenshots at a consistent size
The exact page you want the link to point to
Pricing model (free, freemium or paid) and a contact email
High-resolution screenshots or preview images (no blurry crops)
A short loop or video if your product has motion
Links to a Figma community file, Dribbble or Behance page if relevant
Licence terms if you sell assets or templates

Is CSS Winner worth it?

Good for discovery, not link equity

Links from CSS Winner listings carry rel="nofollow", so they pass little or no ranking value. Submit if its audience matches yours: the value is visitors and being findable where people browse.

Domain Rating by Ahrefs: 75 (very strong). That's the strength of links to the whole site, not a promise about what your listing passes on.
Tranco rank #313,518: a mid-sized site, inside the top 500,000.
A person reviews submissions, so expect a wait and a real quality bar.
Listing costs money. Pay for the audience, not the link: Google’s spam policies treat buying links that pass ranking value as a link scheme.

This verdict is worked out from the facts above with fixed rules (link type, review, price, Domain Rating by Ahrefs, Tranco rank), not paid for. The directory has no say in it.

Questions about CSS Winner

Is CSS Winner free?

No. CSS Winner charges for listings. Pricing details: $15 per submission; rejected submissions are refunded. We checked on Sep 23, 2026.

Does CSS Winner give a dofollow link?

No. Listing links on CSS Winner are nofollow, so they pass little ranking value. They can still send visitors. Evidence: Detail page https://www.csswinner.com/details/hobro-digital/19407 links to https://hobro.digital with rel="nofollow" (checked 2026-09-23).

How do I submit to CSS Winner?

Submit at https://www.csswinner.com/submitsite. A person reviews each submission before it goes live. Tip: Prepare a 1100x770 JPG screenshot; it is required.

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Sources

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