9. Smashing Magazine

This is a site for Smashing Magazine, which is a magazine for designers. I love that instead of layout of the site with elements being in boxes from top to bottom, they have the boxes longer vertically and laid out from left to right. I also the way they handled the navigation in that there is a simple navigation bar first, and then a more detailed one right next to it organized by category. I also like the way they have the right of the screen organized with the search bar and the simple graphic images for their important links and even their advertisements don't look out of place on the site.