Posted by Al Ingham

I think I just found my new favourite CSS gallery.

For years I have relied on a select few; mostly in fact CSS Remix.

But now I’ve found the new leader in my design inspiration producer. CSSMayo is sleek, yet strong, with very good graphics and excellent layout. Everything has been well thought out. Whilst it lacks a search function, which makes finding your own site or particular sites difficult, there are other aspects which totally make up for it. What they’ve done is added in what they call a “Lightbox” – which is basically a favourites bar at the top of the page. Once you arrive at the site, you can add site designs that you like the look of to your Lightbox, with a simple click of a button. The page doesn’t reload, it just goes about the task of adding that site to your Lightbox.

At the end of browsing, you can open up your Lightbox and have a look at your selection of sites. It saves it for next time too! No logging in (unless I did ages ago), so I suspect it relies heavily on cookies and cache…

It has a good system of categories, and a good colour indication chart. Everything makes sense, and it is incredibly easy to use.

What I would like to see improved on is individual site pages. The links coming in from my listed site were from /page/75/, /page/82/ etc… If they had individual pages, this wold be very handy to have a direct link to your site/ your favourite site.

EDIT: They do have this feature! Check out www.cssmayo.com/al-ingham!

But the ability to save designs that you like is great. In CSS Remix I was forever having to go hunting, and re-hunting for designs that I liked from last time I was there. Now, with this Lightbox in CSSMayo, there won’t be any searching for long lost designs. Just browse, click and add.

Put simply, it’s revolutionary.