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Really, examples of Web sites whose design I like, and why.

http://www.abrightcolddayinapril.com
Elegant site design; nice photos.
http://a.wholelottanothing.org/
Attractive colour scheme and backgound; cool use of background images as
sizable thumbnails.
http://www.daringfireball.net/
Minimlism.
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.meyerweb.com/
Two sites that demonstrate what can be done with CSS-based design.
http://www.whatdoiknow.org/
Subtle background pattern, cool text as images.
Also cool:
Andy Budd
Brainstorms and Raves
bingwalker
clagnut
Design Meme
Hivelogic Narrative
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Kapowaz
languagehat
Meccapixel
mezzoblue
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