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Where to submit a website design: 16 galleries and awards
Web design galleries and awards are where designers, agencies and founders look for ideas. A feature can bring visitors, credit for the team and a link to the live site. There are two kinds. Awards sites charge per entry, and a jury or the editors score the site: Awwwards costs $65 per website, CSS Design Awards $50 and Mindsparkle Mag from 39 euros, while CSS Winner ($15) and CSS Nectar ($9) refund you if they turn the site down. Inspiration galleries are mostly free and picky. Minimal Gallery says it declines most submissions, One Page Love only takes true one-page sites, and Footer and CTA.gallery feature a single part of the page. Most of them want a live, finished site rather than a template demo, and some ask for a screenshot at a set size. Credit the designer or studio when you submit, because the feature page names them and links to their profile.
- Directories
- 16
- 1 categories
- Dofollow (verified)
- 14
- of 16 with a checked link
- Free to submit
- 9
- free, or with a free plan
By hand, from $49 one-time.
Start with these 3
Free to submit, a followed link where we verified one, then the highest Domain Rating.
- One Page Love
Free · Dofollow · DR 79
- Siteinspire
Free · Dofollow · DR 76
- Minimal Gallery
Free · Dofollow · DR 61
All 16, most popular first
Awwwards
awwwards.com
Awwwards is a web design awards and inspiration site where a jury scores submitted websites and picks Sites of the Day and Month. Submissions cost money but can put a site in front of a large…
PaidDofollowCheckedOne Page Love
onepagelove.com
A long-running gallery of single-page websites, landing pages and templates, curated for designers and developers. Accepted sites get a showcase page with screenshots, tags and a link to the live…
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cssdesignawards.com
CSS Design Awards is a juried web design awards site where submitted websites compete for daily and yearly awards in solo, studio and agency categories. It is a paid entry aimed at design-led sites…
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csswinner.com
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…
PaidNofollowCheckedMinimal Gallery
minimal.gallery
Minimal Gallery has curated minimal website designs since 2013 and also collects templates and tools for creatives. Accepted submissions are published in the gallery and shared on its social…
FreeDofollowCheckedWeb Design Clip
webdesignclip.com
Web Design Clip is a Japanese web design gallery that files sites by industry, layout, color and technology, with sections for Japanese, international, landing page and mobile designs. Recommended…
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landingfolio.com
A landing page inspiration gallery plus component and template library for designers. Approved pages appear as screenshots in the gallery with a link out to the live product.
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mindsparklemag.com
Mindsparkle Mag is a design magazine that features websites and design projects and gives Site of the Day awards. Paid website submissions compete for a feature and promotion on its site and social…
PaidDofollowCheckedAdmire The Web
admiretheweb.com
Admire The Web is a web design inspiration gallery with thousands of sites filed by category and color, plus a small newsletter. Accepted websites get a gallery page linking to the live site, which…
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cssnectar.com
CSS Nectar is a CSS gallery and web design awards site that features hand-picked websites and names nominees and winners. Accepted sites get a gallery page with a link to the live site and are also…
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cta.gallery
CTA.gallery collects call-to-action designs from across the web, from buttons and forms to pricing and newsletter blocks. A featured CTA gets its own page crediting the site and designer with links…
FreeDofollowCheckedCurated
curated.design
Curated is a web design reference gallery of real, live websites grouped by category (SaaS, AI, dev tools, portfolios and more) and style. Sites that pass review get their own page with a link and…
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darkmodedesign.com
Dark Mode Design is a hand-curated showcase of websites with strong dark themes. Each tile links straight to the featured site, and new additions are posted on the curator's social accounts.
FreeDofollowCheckedFooter
footer.design
Footer is a gallery dedicated entirely to website footers, tagged by style such as typographic, illustrative or animated. Featured sites get a page crediting the designer and linking to the live site.
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hoverstat.es
HOVERSTAT.ES showcases alternative and experimental web design, picked for new approaches to design, interaction and content. Featured sites get a page with credits and a link, plus a social media…
FreeDofollowCheckedSiteinspire
siteinspire.com
A hand-picked gallery of well-designed websites, more than 8,000 of them, sorted by style, type and subject and browsed mainly by designers, developers and agencies. Any registered member can submit…
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DR is Domain Rating by Ahrefs: a 0–100 score of a site’s backlinks, higher is stronger. It isn’t a Google metric. Tranco rank is a research top-sites ranking: lower means more popular. How we check each directory
How to prioritise
- Free galleries that match your site's style first: minimal, one-page, dark mode or experimental.
- Galleries for one part of the page, like Footer and CTA.gallery, when that part stands out.
- Paid awards only for visually ambitious sites; a plain SaaS landing page rarely scores well.
- A paid fast lane, like Curated's $29 priority review, only when you need an answer soon. Paying doesn't lower the bar.
Questions about this list
Are paid web design awards worth the entry fee?
For a design-led site, often yes: the picks are seen by designers, agencies and clients, and the team gets credited. For a plain product landing page, usually not. Awwwards is aimed at visually ambitious work, and CSS Design Awards says templates lower your chances of winning. Start with the free galleries and the cheaper awards that refund rejected entries.
Can I submit a site built from a template?
Some galleries take one if you changed it a lot (One Page Love says so), and CSS Design Awards allows templates but says they lower your chances. Landingfolio rejects template demos and placeholder copy outright. A finished site with your own content always does better.
Do these galleries link to my site?
Most do: the feature page links to the live site, and on most of the galleries we checked that link is followed. Landingfolio and CSS Winner use nofollow links, and Awwwards uses both. The list below shows the link type for each one.
Which of these directories give a dofollow link?
14 of the 16 had a followed (dofollow) listing link when we checked: Awwwards, One Page Love, CSS Design Awards, Minimal Gallery, Web Design Clip, Mindsparkle Mag and 8 more. Directories change their link policy, so check your own listing once it is live.