The Digg of the web design community – CSS galleries

May 7th, 2008 • 6

It’s a well known fact that when sites get Digg’ed (Dugg?) and make it to the front page they get a huge upsurge in traffic. While I wasn’t fortunate enough to have that happen to me, I did experience what I consider to be analogous in the web design community – being featured on some galleries.

I was pleasantly surprised by the number of visitors that visited the site – a large multiple of what I usually have. This is how my visitor count changed, courtesy of Mint:

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Some of the sites where I was featured:

  • Best Web Gallery
  • CSS Remix
  • CSS Mania
  • CSS Collection

It was a huge honor to be featured among some of the best designers on the web today and I appreciate the recognition.

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6 Responses to “The Digg of the web design community – CSS galleries”

  1. Craig May 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Congrats on the recognition. The website looks great.

  2. Jason May 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Haha… love the screenshot, a great representation of the after “effect” of these gallery sites. Good job on the site!

  3. tony May 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Thanks guys!

  4. brice May 11th, 2008 at 2:46 am

    great post. i had thought about writing something similar in the past. you should write more on it in the future.

  5. jason May 15th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    First, great site. Nicely designed and communicated well.

    Second, as a fellow web developer and as someone obsessed with analytics and web marketing, I have found these bursts in site traffic to be almost useless. I say that because many times the people trolling these design galleries are designers and developers (like me). This is traffic that likely won’t produce any business. Is it good for something, sure…brand/name recognition. Possibly a referral.

    Just my two cents.

  6. Patrick May 18th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Yeah, I received a lot of traffic whenever I did a fresh new design. A great way to earn a lot of traffic, especially if you have a good design. It just travels through the rest of the design galleries, and it grows into more traffic.

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