25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages

Jul. 24, 2009  |  Inspiration  |  94 comments

A well developed and organized sign-up page has to relay a large quantity of data in a  small area and must be quick and easy to read and understand.

Overly creative plan names are more likely to hurt your sign-up process instead of help, as they’ll take longer to understand.

It’s better to save your creativity for the other pages which will be redirecting the user to the sign-up page.

Start a trial and error phase to test out what your audience might specifically be attracted to as this will vary from site to site.

Here are 25 creative examples of sign-up pages which you can use as a starting point for inspiration when designing your own.

 

1. Wufoo

 

 

2. Ballpark

 

 

3. Squarespace

 

 

4. Concept Share

 

 

5. The Resumator

 

 

6. Big Cartel

 

 

7. MindMeister Editions

 

 

8. Freckle

 

9. Nibble Tech

 

 

10. Form Spring

 

 

11. Zen

 

 

12. Strutta

 

 

13. Basecamp

 

 

14. DropSend

 

 

15. LightCMS

 

 

16. Linkpatch

 

 

17. Mailer Mailer

 

 

18. Livestream

 

 

19. eWedding

 

 

20. Media Temple

 

 

21. Litmus

 

 

22. Brightbox

 

 

23. Harvest

 

 

24. Web-o-matic

 

 

25. Crazy Egg

 

Compiled exclusively for WDD by Liz Fulghum

What aspects are important to you when designing a sign-up page? Please share your views with us!

 

 

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COMMENTS
  • http://www.crecemedia.com Francisco

    Great post!

    I was actually thinking of sending you an email last week recommending a compile of price pages, but this is pretty much what I was hoping you would blog.

    Would like to add, I think the best signup pages are the ones that include FAQs, to make the user confirm everything he has read before. For example, if he reached the sign-up page by clicking a “no credit card required, sign up now!” button, a good sign up page will include a FAQ explaining/assuring you really dont need a credit card and what terms follow, if any.

    • http://listoric.deviantart.com Listoric

      I really like the FAQ idea, it’s so obvious that it should appear an information about the credit card if it is mentioned in the button, but I rarely see another information on that after the button press. Thanks for sharing!

      Nice collection, some of them are really great, very inspiring!

  • http://www.webdesignerdepot.com Walter

    Ah, I must have read your mind :)

  • http://www.jannejamsen.com Janne J

    Nice post, nice designs!

  • http://all-for-design.com All for Design

    Good for the inspiration…very good examples.
    Thanks !

  • http://www.crearecommunications.co.uk Adam

    That’s some great inspiration – I need to do something similar to this for my new website offering e-commerce packages! I like the use of different colours to distinguish packages like in Wufoo.

  • http://www.mymashable.co.cc/ wayne

    Great collection of sign-up pages… Thanks for making all in one post.

  • http://www.edgarleijs.nl Edgar Leijs

    This is very interesting! Sign-up, i prefer to call it Pricing pages are most of the time quite boring, but if you look at Web-o-matic… WOW!!!

    And i agree with Francisco…

  • http://www.jsbwebdesign.com JSB Web Design

    Great collection here, some of them really pack a punch. This will eb a good resource for some inspiration and ideas. These sign-up pages are very important and need to present information in an easy to understand way.

  • http://www.toyegraphics.co.uk Toye Graphics

    I really like Number 1. simple and effective, colours look really nice.

  • http://www.darrenalff.com Darren Alff

    This is great! I’d love to see something very similar to this, but with well-designed landing pages next time. You know? The pages used to capture people’s names and email addresses (and sometimes their phone number, mailing address, etc). That would be a post myself and other Internet entrepreneurs would surely be interested in. Thanks!

  • http://paperdoll.orange-crux.net/portfolio Sara

    These are beautiful. I also really like Surpass Hosting’s sign up page: http://www.surpasshosting.com

  • http://www.mydatbroker.com JP

    GREAT!!! Thanks for the inspiration

  • http://www.exxcorpio.com Luis Lopez

    I like the Wufoo and Linkpatch sing up pages, but all are really well designed, that’s great, this kind of sites don’t loose the opportunity to have the attention of the visitor.
    Thanks for the post

  • http://joaoramos.org joão

    oh god, wonderful job gathering all these examples!
    great article!

  • http://www.csskarma.com Tim Wright

    It’s interesting to see the some companies order from free -> cost and others cost -> free. I’d be interested in seeing the data on the signup rate for the ordering of services.

    Nice article, thanks.

    • Amatatomba

      I noticed the same thing. Going from cost to free probably gets more people to notice the plans that cost money, as opposed to just clicking on the free one right away.

  • http://www.heynils.com Nils Rasmusson

    Great set of inspiration-providing signups. Thanks for putting all of this together.

  • http://www.marcfalk.com Marc Falk

    Great inspiration, which I need at the moment! Thank you…

  • Jason

    All great inspirations. Great article!

  • Ocrif Spender

    Merci pour ce dossier, excellent pour l’inspiration
    A+

  • http://theperfectdesign.com Justin

    Perfect list to get inspiration for effective landing pages. I look for something like this every time I start a new campaign.

  • http://www.webmasterlinkdegisim.com Link Degisimi

    All great inspirations. Great article!

  • http://www.aledesign.it aledesign.it

    Good graphics..impoertant for some work..thanks! ;)

  • http://www.livingforart.com Jasmin Halkić

    Very nice.

  • http://www.livingforart.com Jasmin Halkić

    Nice. Great article.

  • http://blog.jakerocheleau.com/ Jake Rocheleau

    Sweet collection! Pretty unique article too, haven’t seen this topic covered anywhere else :)

  • http://iliadraznin.com ILia

    Wow, great stuff. I’m actually in the processing of designing a site at work that’ll need an interesting signup page, so this will definitely come in handy as a source of ideas and inspirations.

  • http://www.templatetuts.com Template Tuts

    Excellent post, I love these examples.

  • http://piwigo.wordpress.com Pierrick Le Gall

    Thanks a lot for this article. In the next few weeks I will have to design such a page for http://www.piwigo.com sign-up page (Piwigo.com is currently in beta stage, the website is only a sign up form for beta testers).

    When I read the post title in my RSS reader, I thought it was about the sign up form itself. This would have also helped me a lot :-) (just in case you’re preparing such a post in the future)

  • David Jordan

    These aren’t general sign up pages, these are only specific to services that have packages. When I think of sign-up I think of putting in a username, email, password etc.

    I like the eWedding one because it has the (?) next to each option so you can actually find out more about that option with ease. Not many of the others actually do that and explain an option further.

  • http://pagegardens.com/ Page Gardens

    Beautiful! Very strong call to action on them.

  • RoaldA

    Awsome! :D

  • http://www.bcm-websolutions.de/de/suchmaschinenoptimierung-stuttgart.html Seo Stuttgart

    The first seven are damn great, I really need to design again :D

  • http://www.sametomorrow.com/blog Adam

    Good post definitely have some interesting ones on there.

  • http://www.mushroomdigital.co.uk website design

    Excellent selection of examples. Great post! :)

  • http://www.bigtunainteractive.com Adam Hermsdorfer

    Great list. This gave me some great ideas on how to improve the print layout of some of the packages that I offer.

  • http://www.webizm.com web tasarim

    I loved mediatemple and wufoo.

  • http://www.blog.tropicalismo360.com tropicalismo360

    Great stuff!

  • http://www.freeiphone4me.co.uk Mandy

    I like the look of some of these – especially #17. If only my design skills were better than basic photoshop – my sign up page needs some serious work.

  • http://www.alastairmogford.co.uk/ Alastair Mogford

    Great article, and some great sites too.

    One I would at to the list though is the Spotify product listing page at: http://www.spotify.com/en/products/overview/

    Quite a dense sign-up overview page, but still simple to understand and really nice.

  • http://www.misty-blue.net Sarah

    Very good list. I love the comparison grids. As a user, I find that they are the easiest to understand quickly. As a designer, they’re simple to create. It’s great to see how each site puts their own twist on the grid design.

  • http://www.microhosting.org frikik

    Nice post, nice designs!

  • http://www.netform.co.za Leondp

    A Very useful article. Thanks for sharing!

  • http://www.prapdesign.com PraP

    Great collection of sign-up pages

  • http://www.gotmedia.org/ Steph

    Very refreshing! The Web-o-matic one was quite creative, but the wufoo one was definitely where the drool started :)

  • Ed

    Too much stuff on all of them.

  • http://www.chelariu.de Paul

    I like it, thanks =)

  • http://www.travisdunn.com Travis Dunn

    Nice collection! A good follow up post might be the fulfillment step. The comparison pages are exciting and attractive, and certainly show a common design pattern, but I wonder how different the subsequent steps are for each of the sites?

  • http://sidoza.com Sid

    Fantastic, thanks! Will keep this in mind when I do a store redesign next time.

  • ryan

    ummm why is this titled “25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages”

    Shouldn’t it be pricing tables?

  • http://www.shawnmcbride.com Shawn McBride

    Thanks for collecting these! Inspired by the crazyegg pricing chart for one I’m working on right now…

  • http://www.grupoconway.es Pablo

    Mmmmm sign-up and comparison pages.

    Very nice examples! I feel inspired :0)

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/sets/ kombizz

    nice collection

  • http://www.studiografiko.com Grafiko

    Great resource, thanks for sharing

  • http://www.hititajans.net web tasarimi

    It’s interesting to see the some companies order from free -> cost and others cost -> free. I’d be interested in seeing the data on the signup rate for the ordering of services.

    Nice article, thanks.

  • http://www.matthiashuehr.de Matthias Hühr

    Good work.I like Web-o-matic.

  • http://www.epilasyoncunuz.com/ Epilasyon

    I’m trying to follow you every day webdesignerdepot. Thanks for shares.

  • http://www.vpsbul.net vpsbul

    Great resource, thanks for sharing

  • http://www.structuredsettlementspurchaseguide.com Structured Settlements

    Nice Collection Thanks for share….

  • http://www.mcarrimages.com Michael Carr

    This is exactly what I was looking for but didn’t know what to search for! thank you.

  • http://www.dream.web.id web hosting

    i love squarespace and ballpark, very good and clean.

  • http://www.internetsitesi.biz ankara web tasarim

    All great inspirations. Great article!
    thanks a lot

  • http://www.internetsitesi.biz WEB TASARIM

    nice job.thank you very much

  • http://www.cevizbilisim.com Web Tasarımı

    Thanks for collecting these! Inspired by the crazyegg pricing chart for one I’m working on right now…

  • http://www.hikaye.us hikaye

    Thanks for collecting these! Inspired by the crazyegg pricing chart for one I’m working on right now…

  • http://www.thinking-forward.co.uk Cheap Printing

    At last, some inspiration! I shall bookmark this page.

  • http://www.twitter.com/linceos Linceos

    Heroku has a great interactive pricing page. The examples shown in this post all look the same.

  • http://www.uzmanparke.com ankara parke

    All great inspirations. Great article!
    thanks a lot

  • http://www.thescube.com Shovan

    Will be using these inspirations

  • http://www.cevizmatbaa.com Matbaa

    A Very useful article. Thanks for sharing!

  • http://www.eryamanhaliyikama.biz eryaman hali yikama

    Nice post, nice designs!

  • http://www.ekimtasarim.com/ ucuz web tasarım

    Hİ ,
    thank you very good post ,

  • http://www.barisozcan.net barış özcan

    It’s interesting to see the some companies order from free -> cost and others cost -> free. I’d be interested in seeing the data on the signup rate for the ordering of services.

    Nice article, thanks.

  • http://www.gunduzmetal.com hurda

    wey good mozilla

  • http://www.ellipsisdive.com ellipsisdive

    Wow, these are really inspiring examples of sign-up pages. I like them all however, i don’t have a favorite.

  • http://www.ucuzbiletim.com ucuz uçak bileti

    Excellent desings.

  • http://www.animekritik.com anime

    very cool collections. Thank you for giving us all inspiration.

  • http://www.delldestek.org dell destek

    Absolutely beautiful and stunning. Thank you.

  • http://www.duzcem.net Düzce

    Nice Collection Thanks for share….

  • http://www.xininvoice.com keith

    thank you! nice list.

  • http://www.bedavaucakbileti.com uçak biletleri

    Thank you, these are very nice examples. Great work

  • http://www.htcdesirecase.net/ Salman Aslam

    Great designs. I loved checking them out :)

  • http://www.ishazir.net iş ilanları

    Wow . That is the best designs i have ever !

  • http://www.ucakbiletleri.de uçak biletleri

    realy thanks for posting. i like this Joe. It’s definitely helpful as a resource.

  • http://www.maydin.com.tr maydin

    Beautiful! Very strong call to action on them.

  • http://www.altincilek.tk altın çilek

    Nice Collection Thanks for share….

  • http://www.biletsorgula.com uçak bileti sorgulama

    I loved checking them out :)

  • http://www.altincilekmix.com altın çilek

    Wow, these are really inspiring examples of sign-up pages. I like them all however, i don’t have a favorite.

  • http://www.antalyadailan.com antalyadailan

    very cool collections. Thank you for giving us all inspiration.

  • http://www.portatifhavuz.com havuz

    I’m trying to follow you every day webdesignerdepot. Thanks for shares.

  • http://www.klupx.com arkadaş

    thank you for share I added your web page google reader same time following

  • http://www.perukk.com peruk

    Wow, these are really inspiring examples of sign-up pages. I like them all however, i don’t have a favorite.

  • http://www.mavermedia.com st.catharines web designer

    Wow, some people really over-hauled the classic, black and white sign up page and brought it to a new level. Thanks for sharing!