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30 Visually Appealing Corporate Website Designs
Being able to communicate effectively and convey key information in a clean and solid matter is parallel to great website design. Designing a corporate website is none the less challenging and requires one to break barriers of communication while steering clear of cluttered designs. When you have a corporate client in mind, you need to make sure that you website can capture the necessary attention and leave a lasting impression on its customers.
The layout, graphics, brand identity, url, and colors are essential to the design and must be carefully thought out and chosen. Corporate websites must attain a higher level of readability, clear presentation, ease of function and accessibility. Below, you will find 30 Incredible Corporate Website Designs that reflect creativity, beauty, simplicity, and great usability. We know there are hundreds more out there, so if we’ve missed any, please let us know!
Elements of a Good Corporate Website
Being Clean, Well Organized and Engaging on a Visual Level
When a customer visits your site, they should notice that the site is attractive, the layout is clean, and the content is visible.
Attractive and Usable Navigation
Designing a site that revolves around simple and easy to find navigation takes some work. However, this could be the difference between a visitor and an actual customer.
Direct, to the point Content
Don’t use overly complicated and highly sophisticated words. We all know you’re smart, but truthfully, not everyone of your visitors will understand or care for everything you write. For example, the content on your site should be easy enough to read that 4th grader could skim through it with very little problem. When visitors read the content on your site, they usually only pay attention to key words and headlines.
Informative and Resourceful About Us Page
Your about us page isn’t all that makes up your site, but it does hold an important place on your site. This is where your potential customers will go to get acquainted with you. Make this page count!
Faster Load Times
You definitely wouldn’t want to keep potential customers waiting an unnecessary amount of time for pages to load. This will drive them away.
Sprinkle Penny
LemonStand
Royal Bank of Scotland
Bloglines
NewsGator
Freckle
Litmus
GLUE Interactive Media
LePush Mail
Campaign Monitor
Campfire
Checkout.App
ActiveCollab
Capuccino Wbe Framework
Squarespace
Saturized
Socialite
Versions
Water CMS
Krop
Office VP
Clear Spring
Business Catalyst
Newsberry
Gist
Onehub
Reinvigorate
Lifejacket
Light CMS
Play in Traffik
19 Comments
Dec 8, 2009
Thank you for showcasing LemonStand! We’ve put a lot of hard work into the website and product and appreciate the recognition.
Congrats to all the other designers who got their work showcased here as well. Lot of great sites in this list.
Dec 8, 2009
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Dec 8, 2009
RBS really?
Newsberry is a bit shoddy too. Needs more definition.
Dec 8, 2009
great collection, thank you.
Dec 8, 2009
Load times are do make quite a difference. When I had a slower host in the past, I had much higher bounce rates than when I moved to a faster host.
Dec 8, 2009
Useful list, great for inspiration. Thanks for putting this together.
Dec 9, 2009
Good Ones… I Like them…
Dec 9, 2009
Your entry about “Capuccino Web Framework” you spelled Web “Wbe”
Might want to change that
Great post!!
Dec 9, 2009
These made me smile …. having done quite a lot of corporate designs over the last few years. This collection is definitely grouped around one of the predominant styles.
Dec 9, 2009
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Dec 10, 2009
Great list of sites, though the nitpick in me will point out that a lot of these websites aren’t for corporations, but for products or service providers. Considering the difficulties in designing a corporate site that doesn’t feel like a simple brochure, I think a true showcase of effective corporate designs would have been more interesting. Nice contribution nevertheless, thanks.
Dec 10, 2009
I’m a huge fan of corporate web design done right. What’s amazing is that some of these great websites are for some smaller companies while some of the largest companies in the world struggle to pull off a half decent website. Kudos to all of those companies featured here.
Dec 11, 2009
some nice looking things in the list. However I failed to spot that many corporate websites, most of them are product or service websites.. and that as we all know, makes a difference in the look also
Perhaps a re-run of a similar post with actual corporate designs would be good
Dec 12, 2009
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Dec 12, 2009
Yes – this is a very Web 2.0 list – i have to say, I still haven’t gotten tired of this look. You put together a really good list. My favorites are the Versions and Squarespace sites.
Jan 4, 2010
All of the sites you’ve shown are pleasant. They’re all professionally designed. However, none of these sites are progressive or unpredictable. Take the logo off any of these sites and you can’t tell them apart. This is also a list obviously influenced by one person’s taste because everything is extremely similar.
Good corporate design doesn’t have to be predictable.
Jan 4, 2010
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Jan 12, 2010
Good points, however, I agree with what others have said – most of your examples are not true corporate sites (with the exception of the Royal Bank of Scotland).
The definition of a “Corporation”:
A group regarded as individual by law: a company recognized by law as a single body with its own powers and liabilities, separate from those of the individual members. – Encarta Dictionaries
Good examples of Corporations (note I’m only referring to Corporations here, not their websites, of which many are poor indeed):
Coca-Cola http://www.coca-cola.com/index.jsp
Can’t say that I’m enthralled with their site.
De Beers http://www.debeers.com/page/home
Not a fan of their landing page, and the site is all-together too black.
Procter & Gamble http://www.pg.com/en_US/index.shtml
I’m impressed.
These are “Corporate Sites”. One needs to differentiate between small business, mid-sized business and big-business (i.e. corporations) when writing a post of this nature, otherwise, I like the points you make – all very relevant.
Feb 10, 2010
Great stuff. All of them are professionally designed. Thanks for the collection.
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