Showing newest 3 of 4 posts from 06.2009. Show older posts
Showing newest 3 of 4 posts from 06.2009. Show older posts
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
60 Excellent Resources for Free CSS / (X)HTML Templates & Layouts
Designing a website - whether you want it to be stylish, valid, with a visually appealing design hierarchy, or just want it to work - is very easy these days. You don't have to be a pro to build a nice looking web site with better design and looks.
You can leverage the pre-built layouts, designs, templates to design a stunning website with great looking styles and excellent features. You just can use css-techniques developed in the web-dev-community over the last few years to design a new website by your own.They can save you a lot of coding time. In this post we have collected 35 best websites where you can download free CSS templates. All you have to is add the content and you’ve got template ready for you website.
You can always start from these pre-built templates or layouts, adding, modifying, removing content, style, elements or just anything to put up a website that matches your taste and needs.
Below you’ll find a list of resources which offer free, gorgeous and valid CSS-based templates - usually with images and full layout structure, such as headers, navigation bars, content containers, sidebars and footers.
Free CSS / (X)HTML Website Templates & Layouts- Freecsstemplates.org : Templates are free for any type of personal or commercial use (provided you follow the license) so you do not have to pay me anything to use them.
- Free-css-templates.com : Find here a never before seen collection of free CSS Templates, one of the biggest in the entire web!
- Free-css.com
- Templatemo.com - TemplateMo.com provides a lot of high quality free css templates for your personal or commercial websites. All templates are absolutely free to download, modify and apply for your websites without any restriction.
- Free CSS Templates : Download free CSS-based website templates. All design templates are valid XHTML.
- CSSTemplates.Net
- Get CSS Templates : Free CSS Website Templates available for download on this web site.
- Free CSS Template : Provides free CSS templates for everyone who is looking for a good and unique template to create his own site.
- MyCelly : This site contains free CSS templates for your website - Just copy and paste and there you have a stunning website !
- Free CSS : These templates are released under the creative commons license. This means when you use the templates a link back to freecss.info is required.
- Free CSS Layouts : All CSS layouts are destributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
- CSS Creme
- Templates Rain : Rain of free website templates!
- Metamorphosis Design
- TemplateWorld : These templates are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. This means that you are free to modify the design to suit your tastes in any way you like, but you must include the provided link back to Template World.
- Solucija : These are free XHTML / CSS website templates available to use without any limitations. They can be used on a noncommercial site as well as on a commercial one.
- Template Yes : 100% free templates, website graphics and free wallpapers.
- Template Fusion : Beautiful, free, standards compliant, CSS Templates.
- Style Shout : You are free to download and use them for your personal or business website or for any purpose that you want.
- Open Source Templates : Website Templates are free to use under Creative Commons 3.0 licence.
- CSS Templates Free
- CSS Temps : A website dedicated to bring the online community the best free CSS templates.
- CSS 4 Free : CSS4Free provides free CSS based website templates for you to preview, rate, comment on, and download.
- A Template Free : Find free XHTML, CSS and PHP templates. Free Wordpress Themes, Proxy themes and more.
- Sarkis Web Design
- My Free CSS Templates : 378 FREE Templates in this section.
- Free CSS XHTML Templates : Free CSS and XHTML W3C Standards Compliant Website Templates
- Six Shooter Media : The online home of Designer James Koster.
- Minimalistic Design : Free XHTML/CSS Templates.
- About ENJAY
- Mitch Bryson : These templates give you the basic structure to start a new web project. They don't have any designed elements whatsoever, just a base style sheet and the empty folder structure to build on.
- Arcsin.se : Free website templates built using table less XHTML and CSS.
- INF Design CSS Templates : Download open source templates for your website. All designs are free to use for any purpose and has valid XHTML and CSS code.
- Zero Web : Lightweight designs with few to no graphics.
- Open Web Design : A community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.
- Best Free Templates : BestFreeTemplates.info offers exclusive CSS templates of various categories, available for free downloading.
- Rambling Soul
- Spyka Webmaster : Latest free web templates.
- Free Tempaltes 4U
- CSS Design Center : Provides over 50, free to download templates for your websites, to use, completely free! You can also submit your own template to the site for others to use.
- CSS Template Heaven : You may download all my templates for free including the PSD file.
- CSS Fill : Selection of completely free CSS / XHTML based layouts & templates
- OSWD : Hundreds of templates and layouts of all possible kinds.
- Max Design : Range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts - free to use and abuse as needed.
- CSS Play : Most of the demonstrations can be used without asking for permission. However, some will require email approval first. Just check each page for the copyright requirements before use.
- Intensivstation : All templates are XHTML 1.0 and CSS2.
- EX Designs : (X)HTML-based CSS-templates.
- Code Sucks : Templates and various layouts with 2-4 columns.
- Little Boxes : CSS Layouts and Templates
- CMG Technologies : The templates are provided in .Zip format and are of different kinds. Most of them are structured using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), while some of them are table based website templates.
- CSS Templates Market
- Incutio Layouts
- Free Nice Templates : Every free CSS template provide a default theme but you can customize them easily to build your own designed website.
- Bad Template : This site offers a collection of quality Free CSS website Templates ready made web designs, that can be used as a basis for fast and quality website.
- Lee Baillie
- Designity : Free Web Design Community is a place to download and share free web design templates.
- My Green Corner : If you want to build a simple html site, you can find here and download great free designs distributed under license Creative Commons 3.0.
- Web Development Tutorials : Free CSS and XHTML Website Templates.
- CSS Web Templates : CSS Templates - Tableless Designs
- Free CSS Templates
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
40 Creative & Artisitc Example of Using Paper in Web Designs
Using Paper as an Element while designing a web site is getting more and more popular among designers. You can see a variety of websites using paper in many parts of a web design, as backgrounds, menus, content holders, footers, headers and almost all parts of a web site.
Using various aspects of paper - notebooks, cardboards, torn notebook pages, notebooks, clips, old news papers, stick notes and so on. These different aspects or representations of paper allow designers to use them in almost all parts of a web site.
In this showcase you will see a list of 40 creative examples of artistic and innovative use of paper patterns, backgrounds and textures.
www.bar-t.com
www.xruiz.com.ar/index_en.ph
www.vincentmazza.com
www.sprockethouse.com
www.danolsavsky.com
www.skodesignlab.com
www.loveincolor.com
www.trendywebdesign.nilarian.com
www.cotr.tv
www.substrakt.co.uk
www.leemunroe.com
www.teamgreenadventures.com
www.artflavours.com
www.dawghousedesignstudio.com
www.mitxel.com
www.jameslaicreative.com
www.ganato.com
www.seanjohnson.net
www.viget.com
www.plankdesign.com/en
www.electricpulp.com
www.dpivision.com
www.spoofuniversity.com
www.goodlittlecompany.com
www.carbonsugar.com
www.thebrewmag.com
www.longboardtheworld.com
www.gardeningwithchildren.co.uk
www.victoriagaskelldriving.co.uk
www.designtop10.com
www.revolutiondrivingtuition.co.uk
www.lucyblackmore.co.uk
www.alldecksinc.com
www.minlomedia.com
www.spikeproductions.co.uk
www.pixeldot.eu
www.lookdesigns.net
www.5pts-interactive.com
www.studs-up.com
www.ispoil.net
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Saturday, June 06, 2009
50 Inspiring & Excellent Logo Designs
How many times you got impressed by a logo and thought , "Why didn’t I think of that?". Have you ever thought why you are thinking like that or why that design gives you that impression?
A logo must be supported with a strong message that represents the company's core values and expertise. When an image is combined with other brand attributes, and is out there on a frequent basis, the message that image carries ultimately seeps into the logo. A perfect logo should be one which always grabbing attention, making a statement, and etching itself into memory.
With the invasion of television and internet and as the competitive gap between companies are getting smaller, image is everything. As the performance of a product or service is the most important thing, the small image or what be calla LOGO being seen with this product or service is just as important. When it comes down to the best logos, they all share one thing in common: logo simplicity. Logo simplicity usually results in a one-color simple design that is easily readable, reproducible and scalable.
Here is a set of 50 beautifully designed and inspiring log designs which are simple, yet impressive, carrying a message or fits so close to what they stand for or the product or service the company offers.
Hope you have enjoyed this post. Have you came through some impressive logos, please feel free to share it with others...
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