Where to get design inspiration? There are sites specializing in showcasing great designs. They do the leg work of finding well designed sites and categorize them, so you can easily find sites that you like. This is a good way to get inspiration and ideas for the site that you want to build.

• http://www.csselite.com/ -
  Showcasing well designed web sites and development resources. They do good job in sites selection, as the quality of the sites displayed is impressive.
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ -
  Web magazine for designers and web-developers. Has many good articles covering site design. For example
  • 45-excellent-blog-designs
  • 60-elegant-and-visually-appealling-designs
• http://www.designmeltdown.com/ -
  Specializing in categorizing web designs by colors, design element and techniques, site types and more.

Also worth a visit:

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  • http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/
  • http://www.cult-f.net/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/
  • http://thebestdesigns.com/
  • http://www.cssbloom.com

If your site is well designed, most of the sites above have a submit link option. Should be an awesome achievement to be listed on a design inspiration list.

Where can more good design inspiration sites be found? Pls share!

There are so many web2.0 web sites out there, it is impossible to know them all.
The directories help find new interesting web2.0 sites to explore and get inspired by.

A list of few interesting directories:

• http://web2.econsultant.com/
  Divided by categories

• http://www.go2web20.net/
  With colorful logos of each web 2.0 site

• http://www.allthingsweb2.com/
  Categorized by popularity, rating, reviews

• http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/top-list-of-social-media-sites
  top 100 sorted by Alexa ranking

• http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com/
  Get RSS feed with links to web2.0 sites

• http://my.mashable.com/links/network
  Social network grid

I am sure there are more good directories, and will be happy to learn about them…

And finally my humble list of web2.0 sites and resources. The list is short and includes only sites that I like the most and sites that I plan to try out.