Find Your Core Reference Design

Your mission: Browse the design showcases below and select ONE website design that resonates with you visually.

Why We Start With Visual References

Most business owners struggle to articulate their design preferences. Even after hours of discussion, words rarely capture the visual direction effectively. That's why our design process begins with you finding a concrete example we can reference together.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then your reference design becomes our shared language for colors, typography, layouts, and overall aesthetic direction.

See The Entire Design Process Here.

Our 4-Step Visual Design Process

Step 1: Reference Selection (That's Now)
Find one design from the sites below that catches your eye visually.

Step 2: Initial Design Workshop (During Kickoff)
We'll review your reference together and identify the core elements you're drawn to—colors, typography, and overall feel.

Step 3: Full Design Workshop
You'll work directly with our designer to dive deeper into visual elements: backgrounds, graphics, spacing, and visual hierarchy.

Step 4: Creation & Refinement
We build your custom design and involve you in our structured three-revision process.

What to Look For (And What Not to Worry About)

Focus on these visual elements:

• Color schemes and combinations
• Typography and font styles
• Layout structure and spacing
• Graphics, shadows, and visual effects
• Overall aesthetic feel

Don't worry about:

• Whether the industry matches yours
• Navigation complexity
• Content or messaging
• Functionality features

Important Reality Check

Many designs in these showcases are created by talented artists who prioritize visual impact over business results. Some might seem too bold, artistic, or unconventional for your industry—that's perfectly fine.

We're not copying your reference design. We're using it as inspiration to create something that serves your business goals. Every design we deliver follows proven StoryBrand principles and focuses on converting visitors into customers, not just looking impressive.

Whether you choose something minimalist or bold, corporate or creative—we'll transform those visual elements into an effective, conversion-focused website that works for your industry.

Ready to Begin

Browse the design galleries below, trust your instincts, and select the ONE design that makes you think "I like how this looks." Then share that URL with our team.

Don't overthink it—we've got the expertise to translate your visual preferences into business results.

Your Assignment for Design Exercise:

Skim some of these sites, find one design you'd like to use as inspiration and reference, and send us the URL to it.

#1 Website Design Inspiration & UI/UX Design Ideas - Landings.dev

Check out the Landings website to see examples of pages.  These are primarily just landing pages and not very rohbust, but there's quite a few.  Here's there website at landings.dev

#2 Webflow Templates

We build in webflow, and we love it.

Webflow has a plethora of templates in their market place.  These are often great starting points visually.

Head to the Webflow templates, and browse through to find designs you love.

Remember, you're looking for colors, fonts, sections, graphics and the way the designs FEEL.

You can search by your industry, or just browse around.

Find a template you like, and just provide the link to the template and we'll use it as a reference point (don't buy it, we build a system you'll love)

Head to webflow templates and look around!

https://webflow.com/templates

#3 Salient Themes Templates

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We don't recommend using these wordpress themes or plugins, but we can use their portfolio of designs to get inspired.

Check out the prebuilt websites on Salient's websites.

Find one you want to use as a reference and send it to our team.

https://themenectar.com/salient/prebuilt-websites/

#4 Awwwards.com

 These folks have been aggregating designs and doing their competition forquitesometime.

Check out what they have. Jump around the categories, and look for practical examples instead of some of the more outlanding designs here.

https://www.awwwards.com/websites/business-corporate/

‍https://www.awwwards.com/

#5 MaxiBestOf

This site has lots of variety, some more helpful than others.

You might I really like tohit the MaxiBestof Picks button and get some high quality inspiration.

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https://maxibestof.one/

#6  Godly.Website

This one has some really great website examples, many are more abstract, creative and "out-there".

Remember, finding one with some design elements you like is what it's all about.

https://godly.website/

#7 Avada Prebuilt Websites

We don't recommend using the Avada wordpress theme, but we certainly like to learn from what's been designed on their theme.

Check out the pre-built websites.  If these encapsulate the visuals, colors, graphics, look and feel, then share the link to the sub-page with us.

https://avada.com/prebuilt-websites/

#8 Creative Market

The creative market has all sorts of things for creative development.

Now, this link has additional steps to see wordpress, wix, squarespace and html templates.

You can jump into any of those categories to find inspiration.

Just find the one DESIGN that's worth referencing and we'll take it from there.

Explore the various categories of website templates and themes here.

https://creativemarket.com/templates-themes/website-templates

#9 SquareSpace Templates

Squarespace has a ton of prebuilt templates, and many of them are great designs, but we would not recommend the system to build upon.

So head here, look through their pre-built templates, and show us one for inspiration and we'll use it as your reference.

https://www.squarespace.com/templates

#10 Framer.io Templates

We love the modern designs we see out of Framer, and we think looking through their templates to find design inspiration is a great idea.

Explore through the designs and then send us a link to the one that really inspires you.

https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/

#11 Wix Templates

Another great place for design inspiration is Wix.

They build templates, then they want you to tweak them...

Sounds good until you actually have to do it.

Find a template you like here and send us a link so we can use it as inspiration.

https://www.wix.com/studio/templates

#12 Website Design Inspiration & UI/UX Design Ideas - SaasLandingPage.com

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https://saaslandingpage.com/

#13 OnePageLove.com

One PageLove curates web design inspiration and is definitley worth checking out.

Browse through their designs, and find one that we can use as a referance.

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https://onepagelove.com/

#14 Craftwork- Cureated.design

These folks have lots of inspiration all curated together.

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https://craftwork.design/curated/websites

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#15 ClickFunnel Templates

I really don'tlove clickfunnels, but they do have a ton of visual starting point examples.

They've built some decent templates, and if you find one that has colors, fonts and design that's in line with what you're looking for, then send us the URL to that one and we'll use it.

https://cffunnelstemplates.com/

#16 Lead Pages Templates

Another company that's built a ton of web pages to use as inspiration is Leadpages.

They have lots of examples here and might be helpful in your inspiration.

https://www.leadpages.com/website-templates?order_by=-release_date

#17 CSSDesignawards.com

This site has some pretty outlandish designs, and they're not from boring categories like builders, accountants etc.

Check out their nominees and let us know if you see one that would help.

https://www.cssdesignawards.com/wotd-award-nominees

#18 Kajabi Templates

Another really huge library with lots of design is Kajabi.

I don't recommend using their system, butlookthrough their designs.

They have both website template designs and landing page template designs.

Use either to find your inspiration.

Kajabi Website Templates

Kajabi Funnel Templates

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#19 Design & UI/UX Inspiration Website - Landing.love

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https://www.landing.love/

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#20 Figma Website Templates

Figma is an amazing tool, and they have all sorts of templates to start from.

Browse through Figma's web design templates, find something great, and bring it to ourteam.

https://www.figma.com/community/website-templates

#21 Canva Website Templates

Canva has some good design inspiration that business owners should take a look at.

We don't like their system, and many of their designs cater to a very particular niche, they have SO much inspiration.

https://www.canva.com/website-builder/templates/

#22 Astra Templates

Another large, old wordpress theme company is Astra.

Astra isn't something we'd recommend for businessowners,but they have some decent starter templates to look at for inspiration.

Check out their templates and if something catches your eye, share the url to it.

https://wpastra.com/website-templates/

#23 Duda Website Templates

Duda website has some more practical designs to take a look at.

Find something that's good for you, and send it on over.

https://www.duda.co/website-builder/templates

#24 Divi Layouts

Divi is yet another huge, old wordpress theme company that has a ton of starter templates.

Check them out, see if one grabs your design attention, and share the one that's great for reference

https://www.elegantthemes.com/layouts/

#25 Bento Grids

THere's a ton of SAAS and technology based designs here.

Lots of cool gradients, and they have web design, animation and graphic design inspiration.

Worth a look for sure.

https://bentogrids.com/

#26 Etsy Website Templates and Design

you can head to etsy and start searching for websites of all designs and industries.

If you find some inspiration, share the link with our team!

Etsy Website Designs and Templates

#27 BeTheme Wordpress Templates

There's another huge wordpress theme company with a ton of templates to view called BeTheme.

Spend time looking for an inspiration through the designs and show us one that's worth mimicing.

https://muffingroup.com/betheme/prebuilt-websites/

(BeTheme is at muffing group)

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#28 Dark.Design - Designs for Dark Websites

Alright, here's a fun one if you plan on having a dark website design.

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https://www.dark.design/

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