“I have been designing websites for the last eight years and one of the hardest things for me to do and one of the things I enjoy the most is finding good websites that I can show my designers as an example of what I am looking for. Flash is out, it takes too long to load and it’s rare to run across one when searching online as well as a client that actually wants one.”

I’ve tried just about everything when looking for inspiring web designs including looking at other web designer’s portfolios.

I’ve even run across a couple web designers that were showing my work as their own.

Template Monster as well as some other good template sites often has inspiring web design templates that I often get ideas from. With the economy like it is it’s not rare to run across people wanting to save money on their web designs, so template sites are a good alternative to custom website designs.

There is a difference between people who are actually planning on making money with their website and people that are looking to get rich quick. Get rich quick people are the ones that have put very little thought into the purpose of their site and have very little money to spend on their site.

People looking to make money with their website have normally put a lot of thought into the idea for the site and have budgeted a certain amount of money to spend on the web design.

But either way, getting a good idea of what is out there and what someone’s capable of doing is very important. I believe that every web designer should spend at least an hour a day looking around and every customer should spend at least a day doing the same.

In other words, do a little research and find some websites online you really like as well as check out your competition and make sure that whatever you do you are better than the competition.