The world of website design is crowded. With billions of websites online, there are millions of designers fighting to gain attention. The only way to rise above the crowd is to demonstrate your expertise. Web Design Awards can come in handy to showcase your skills.
This list is a combination of websites with both free and paid plans.
1. awwwards.com
The most popular web design awards website is awwwards.com. Therefore, it attracts about 2,000,000 unique users each month and is one of the most popular website for design inspiration.
A panel of jury comprising designers, creative directors, bloggers and agencies from all over the world judges your designs here.
There are several categories of awards such as SOTD(Site of the day), Site Of the Month, Site of The year, Nominees and others. On winning an award, you can showcase the badge in your website.
Awwwards offers only paid submissions. You can upload your design in their submit page and choose the plan you are comfortable with.
2. cssdesignawards.com
Like Awwwards, CSS Design Awards too is one of the popular web design awards platform. The website the launched in 2010 and has since become one of the major Design Awards Provider.
Awards provided here are – Website of the Day, Website of the Month , Website of the Year and Designer of the Year. After that, winners here are determined by votes from both the public plus the score by the judges.
This website only accepts paid submissions. We can make submissions here from the submit page.
3. cssnectar.com
CSS Nectar is also a premium web design award website. Every website submitted here is reviewed by their design team and added to the website within 24 hours.
To submit your website, you can visit their suggest site page and fill up the online submission form.
4. csswinner.com
Similar to CSS Nectar, CSS Winner too is a paid web design award website. Design, Functionality, Usability, Content and Scope are considered while ranking websites here.
SOTD and SOTM are the 2 awards here. In addition, they also provide certificates on request.
You can submit your website by visiting their submit site page
5. topcssgallery.com
Top CSS Gallery offers Free submission plans. Similar to other websites in this list, Top CSS Gallery too provides awards and badges to winners.
‘Site of the Day (SOTD)’ is awarded to the best submission of the day. The websites submitted here are evaluated by a team of in-house experts.
You can submit your website through their submit page. Above all, they provide both free and paid plans.
6. thefwa.com
FWA started in 2000 as Favourite Website Awards, in England, UK. Along with Web Design Awards, FWA also allows web apps, mobile apps, AR and VR projects.
Their jury comprises 300+ people from 35+ countries. You can check the voting in their live judging page.
The FWA accepts paid subscription only. You can submit your website by visiting their submit page. However, their submission is only available during certain times of the year.
7. w3award.com
W³ Awards is another popular Web Design Award platform that provides regular rewards to good web designs. This website is maintained by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.
The W³ Awards statue is custom designed and handcrafted by Society Awards. Winning entries can receive a physical Gold, or Silver award.
Like many others in this list, W3 Awards too allows only paid entries.
8. ecommerceshowcase.com
This is primarily a showcase website. However, if you have a ecommerce website, consider submitting it here to compete with other web designers.
Ecommerceshowcase has websites from most of the common ecommerce platforms. They claim to be the showcase of the latest and greatest e-commerce website design inspiration.
You can submit your website for free here. They also have a paid plan for priority clients.
9. cartfrenzy.com
Continuing on the ecommerce theme, cartfrenzy is another ecommerce showcasing platform.
Although it isn’t primarily an awards website, the site has lots of good ecommerce sites to showcase.
You can either submit your site for free or get the paid priority pack.
10. shopsiteawards.com
Shopsiteawards is another ecommerce showcase platform and awards website.
It provides free submission of websites.