Looks like Paul Scrivens has read my plea for a repository of Good Web Design. Ok, so he likely hasn’t, nevertheless I dig his CSS Vault - a gallery of nicely looking, CSS based websites. Partly because he and I seem to share much the same taste.
I wouldn’t mind him kicking it up a notch though and only accept sites that are actually valid markup, or at least pretend to with a valid homepage. But I can’t get everything I point at, and there are still some great looking sites on the list. I do suppose that is what is important for a design gallery.
The sad thing is it is hard enough finding really good CSS sites that are commercial (some blogs get put on there). So if I start adding the criteria of validation I am afraid I would already be done putting new sites up.
It's a shame really, but I'll manage. After all, the sites are only there for inspiration, not for copying their stylesheets/markup, so validation as a criteria is not that important.