Mar 8th, 2007
Capitalizing On CSS Galleries
One of the easiest and quickest ways to accomplish the three things every web designer wants more of is to submit your portfolio site, or designs you have made, to CSS galleries. What are these three things?
- High Trust/PR Backlinks
- More Visitors
- More Clients (as a result of more visitors)
I know I find CSS galleries a big source of inspiration, but they can also be a great place to score some free advertising for your business. I have one friend who does no advertising for his design company, and lives just from referrerals and clients that found him from CSS galleries. In case you didn’t see the obvious advantages of the three things gallery submission accomplishes, here they are.
1. High Trust/PR Backlinks - In case you’ve been living under a stone for the past 3 years, having a backlink to your site on another site that has a lot of trust with Google, and/or high PR, is a good thing. This helps out your site with PR and ranking in the SERP’s.
2. More Visitors - I almost don’t want to say the advantages of this, they’re that obvious. People will see your beautiful designs, and click them and be taken to your site. More visitors = more money from ads, but more importantly clients, which leads to our last point.
3. More Clients - If your designs are good (and of course they are), people will want to know who designed them. They’ll seek you out, and if they need a design, you’ve just gained another client. Of course not everyone that visits your site will become a client, but you’d be surprised how many clients can be gained this way. Oh, and did I mention that these clients are gained through free advertising?
And now you ask, Josh, how do I submit my sites to lots and lots of CSS galleries? Well, simple: you do two things.
The wonderful people over at CSS Insert have created an extremely useful service for designers. You just fill out a simple form with details of your site or design you want to submit, and they send it to over 20 top CSS galleries. They email you who they submitted it to, so you can either a) be lazy and stop here, or b) find out who they didn’t submit to, and then go and submit there yourself. Just go to Google and search for “css gallery,” and find sites that they haven’t submitted to and then manually submit your site. For those of you that want to know before hand, here are the sites they submit to, 26 in all.
- CSS Green
- CSS Elite
- Showcase
- Net Cocktail
- CSS Website
- Best Web Gallery
- Creative Pakistan
- Screenfluent
- CSS Liquid
- CSS Tux
- CSS Princess
- CSS Love
- CSS Thesis
- CSS Hazard
- Darkeye
- Web Design Archive
- Web Creme
- Defrost
- Refresh
- CSS Collection
- Net Culture
- Screenlicious
- CSS Remix
- CSS Mania
- CSS Bloom
- Unmatched Style
So there ya go. Now get busy and start submitting, and enjoy the benefits as they start to roll in 
