Resources and inspiration for web design
Inspiration from the best
Awwwards - a daily updated gallery of the best web solutions in the world. The catalogue of websites can be searched by many criteria.
Behance.net - Profiles of web professionals and graphic designers where they upload their portfolios. You only need to filter the web category.
Pinterest - A public gallery of inspirational web solutions that appear when you search for keywords like "web design" "web inspiration".
Dribbble - Portfolios of professional web designers, which are divided according to the individual elements that make up the site. For example, menus, searchbar, charts, icons.
Free photo libraries
Unsplash - A photo bank that is free, updated daily, the photos are in high resolution and above all free. It is possible to search them by keywords.
Pexels - offers high quality and completely free photos licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Photos are tagged and easy to search.
Foodiesfeed - thousands of gorgeous, high-resolution and arealistic food and drink photos, perfect for photo-based websites and bloggers
Pixabay - vector images, logotypes, photos, charts and many other graphics that are free if filtered correctly
Freepik - a gallery of vector and bitmap graphics where you can filter objects that are free
Cool Backgrounds - colorful generated backgrounds for website headers
Pikwizard - photo/videobank with more than 100 000 pictures of which more than 20 000 are exclusive and you won't find them anywhere else.
Paid photo banks
For photos, you typically have a choice between a simple and an extended licence. Use the extended license if you will be using the photos off-site, for promotional purposes, or to give to your suppliers. Individual photo banks also offer subscription plans that allow you to save money when you buy more photos.
Shutterstock - One of the world's largest photo banks. You can search by category or keyword.
Adobe Stock - Here you will also find perfect photos.
Istockphoto - Also great photos. Models come from all corners and nationalities of the world.
Profimedia.cz - Czech professional photobank. The advantage is the search in Czech.
Icons
Iconfinder - Databank of individual icons and entire icon-sets. You only need to filter free icons if you don't want to pay for them
Istockphoto - Icons and icon sets can also be found in professional photo databases, e.g. here.
boxicons.com - 1000 free icons created for web and apps
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