Web 2.0 Templates from TemplateMonster

In addition to its many existing product categories TemplateMonster has launched a new category of Web 2.0 Templates. The internet today is constantly buzzing about Web 2.0 Templates. Why not? It is a proven fact that Web 2.0 actually WILL make the Internet a better and a more comfortable place for everyone.

So, what is it all about? Web 2.0 is a new concept and approach towards web design. Its main objective is making a website more usable, and to make any particular content easier to read and weigh in importance. This all is done with the help of sectioning the elements – like putting the more important elements into the more visible places, or by making the texts bigger. Web 2.0 also makes it easier to navigate websites by using intuitive navigation bars and icons which helps to attract visitors’ to navigation and make it a pleasure to use. Not to mention the graphics – excellent color schemes, rich surfaces and interesting reflections.

Here are some examples of our Web 2.0 family:

Web 2.0 Templates from TemplateMonster

Web 2.0 Templates from TemplateMonster

Web 2.0 Templates from TemplateMonster

Web 2.0 Templates from TemplateMonster

Written by Alex Flow

Alex has been a columnist for TemplateMonster blog since early 2007 and he is now the blog editor. He is also a Marketing manager for TemplateMonster primary website. Alex resides in NYC with his wife Ann and a cat named Val.

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    • NightMan

      Web 2.0 it is not graphic style. It is other area in web site creation, XHTML, CSS, compatiable with all devices that allows you to see web pages, but not the graphic at all. almost any web template possible to turn to web 2.0 style

    • Unplugged

      The representation here is that Web 2.0 is about layout, legibility, and general presentation. As NightMan indicated, this is not the case. “Web 2.0″ is about new technologies that go well beyond html, xml, css, and server side scripting. Included in “Web 2.0″ strategies are SOA architectures, more extensive use of properly designed web services for application re-usability, mash-up technologies, and more.

      The 2.0 templates presented here look great and the new approach will present value. However, this appears to be just “Face 2.0″ on “Web 1.0″.

    • Tone

      So called “Web 2.0″ is in fact nothing but a marketing term to attract unaware clients.
      Though actually there are some reasons existing to call some websites Web 2.0-styled, but not becouse of their visual outfit and rather becouse of for example their social orientation and user generated content or functions that make them more like usual desktop apps.

      Your templates have nothing to do with all that.

    • http://elikov.ru Elikov

      Web 2.0 is great. It combining all the main principles of web and bring it to another level.
      Web-design is the hardest thing to describe in words. Web 2.0 is helping to verbalise what and why.
      P.S. Excuse me for my english :)

    • Dave

      What the NightMan said here is true. But I do not agree that there is no Web 2.0. design style. Many online resources already analyzed and figured what is Web 2.0 style (large colorful icons, reflected logos, CSS backgrounds etc). I think TM just promptly reacted to existing demand for such style templates. I’ve seen myself a lot of customer asking for Web 2.0 look for their website.

    • http://www.templatemonster.com Alex

      Yes, Dave is right.
      There really IS a Web 2.0 design style. If you look at Web 2.0 websites all over the Internet you will see that they all have a number of common design features. That is why our Web 2.0 templates are really Web 2.0 designed. After all TemplateMonster is primarily about web design.
      And Web 2.0 technology is totally up to the ultimate consumer (with our templates owners can build social orientation for their websites or fill them with user generated content).

    • Christina

      These templates look 2.0, but they are not tableless and the use of flash is not really web 2.0. Web 2.0 is about sticking to web standards and keeping content separate from presentation. So tables, basically, are out (unless it’s a calendar or table of data). Page layout, for the most part, should be done with only css and semantic mark up. Rarely have I seen clean mark up when I look under the hood at TM. I’d like to see Template Monster get much better coding behind their gorgeous front end designs and rely less and less on Flash (please, turn off that horrible music!)

    • NightMan

      The web is changing everyday, the same as any other industry, like car designs and engines or buildings, does not matter what you create, you change it every day, teh technology and look. Just few people gethered together and mentioned that for the last 3 – 5 years, web has been changed, and now looks like item 1, item 2, item 3.. etc. let’s call it web 2.0
      Will pass other 5 years and you will notice other changes and will give other name to it, like web 3.0

      Other people see new faces, new compatiables, new way following it.

      I am doing web sites everyday, and believe me many customers began to say, they are tired from white design, with icons with shadows and they wish something new and fresh or may be classic but not this. It is begin of third or even tenth way in web.

    • http://--- Raj

      I agree with NightMan.

    • http://map8190404.allcamsguide.info/ Webcam man

      Second template is so cool. But it seems it will be more cool with medics stuff.

    • http://www.templatemonster.com Alex

      Christina, all of our latest Web 2.0 templates are W3C validated which means that in some issues our genuine Web 2.0 efforts cannot be accepted. Besides as for coding issues every designer has his own vision of that.
      Yes, maybe our Web 2.0 templates are not Web 2.0 in all aspects but once again it is only about design. The rest of Web 2.0-ness is up to the users. And even though some of the elements in our designs are not completely Web 2.0 they still look great. After all the design has to please the eye of the visitors, right?
      The same thing is about Flash – customers and visitors love it and that is why we consider it acceptable to some extent.
      As for the music – I’ll forward your opinion to our music composers, they do need some megalomania therapy :-)

    • http://www.designexpanse.com DESIGNEXPANSE.COM

      All the designs are really cool. Template Monster always produce high quality stuff for the market. Thanks TM

    • http://www.harzens.com.ar/en/ tintructo

      Web2.0 is about bringing real-time applications in the web and completely made FOR the user…but of course…web2.0 sites needs a Web2.0 Style ;) and TM brings that to customers…just the design/style…

      As for the “”"correct”"” use of the style…well…that depends on the buyer :) , if he is going to make a Web2.0 or just using that “Style” for his site wich is really catchy and pleases the eye :)

      As for the Templates coding and use of flash…well…it’s what the market claims…=/

      of course all this things i said are MY opinion and i’m not the owner of the truth…well maybe a little part of it :P

    • http://www.thenetguruz.com Mohd. Hashim Khan

      really cool ! hoever i was looking for some web 2.0 osdate templates, but cannot find any such cartegory here. :(

    • A Factor

      first, ask yourself why you are desinging websites. Finally the most important factor is the “client”, and the web 2.0 is about what they want… (I think you are designing for yourself, for your ego)

    • Mark

      :( You should make the CSS & Web 2 templates in 1024×768 px, rather than the old, outdated 800×600 resolution. The new laptops and PCs are even coming with 1280×800 px resolution. 1024×768 is now the de-facto standard for media/news sites and online portals. Pls stop developing more 800×600 px templates and focus on better resolution ones. I don’t see a single good template on TM that could fulfill my clients’ needs for Media/News site templates that support CSS/XHTML for 1024 and higher resolutions!

    • http://www.IBNLive.com Slaydon

      I agree that 800X600 is on its way out; we currently run a major news site, and our monthly stats show that only 4-6 percent of our 60,000+/monthly visitors use 800×600 res, hence it’s unfair to design new templates for that minor group! I’d like to see new Ajax components and cool stuff like Tabbed data boxes, DHTML menus… in future Web 2.0 templates. also would like to see cool templates for the vBulletin forum since it’s more popular than Phpbb & other forums.

    • http://u-suck.com Maklabakha Vadupojskava Maharadzhi

      “Face 2.0″ on “Web 1.0″. Exactly what it is! Unplugged +1 (you’re burning)

      I thought templatemonster is bigger than that. Offering Web 2.0 wannabees to people.
      Web 2.0 is the site development technologies at the coding level and little design things just come along with it. But it is so ignorant to claim templates to be Web 2.0

    • http://www.hotels-blackpool.com Blackpool Hotels

      Rarely have I seen clean mark up when I look under the hood at TM. I’d like to see Template Monster get much better coding behind their gorgeous front end designs and rely less and less on Flash

    • Milka

      :( You should make the CSS & Web 2 templates in 1024×768 px, rather than the old, outdated 800×600 resolution. The new laptops and PCs are even coming with 1280×800 px resolution. 1024×768 is now the de-facto standard for media/news sites and online portals. Pls stop developing more 800×600 px templates and focus on better resolution ones. I don’t see a single good template on TM that could fulfill my clients’ needs for Media/News site templates that support CSS/XHTML for 1024 and higher resolutions!

      —> EXACT !!!!! i understand you !!!! Will be cool !!

    • Shak

      Is there any validator or something else to tell whether a site is an Web 2.0?

    • http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html suresh

      Here What Is Web 2.0
      Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software

    • http://www.playbonuscasino.com Richard

      o don’t see on template monster Themes for Vbulletin forum platform, can any help me please ?

    • Rajkumar

      Web 2.0 is all about functionality and making a website Design user-oriented. That is why it is common to use a so-called “Central Design,” making it simple to see and understand the content.

    • http://www.theory-test.co.uk Mahesh Ugale

      I agree with NightMan.

    • http://www.motechsystems.com Scott Moody

      The term Web 2.0 describes new web technologies that are user-oriented. The term refers to the technology and “applications”.

      However, you could called these templates “Web 2.0 design” or “Web 2.0 style”. For myself, I just call them intuitive eye-candy and has nothing to do with the Web 2.0 defacto.

    • http://www.tornado-templates.com Discounted Website Templates and Customization

      The web 2.0 has invisible power in promoting your site too. With a good layout , colors and web 2.0 features your site can be found easier than a 1.0 website. It has tags that feeds channels so you will get targeted audience. … and more…

    • http://www.internetmuetze.de Rosie

      This is a great site. Thank you for your information. I THANK YOU I SALUTE YOU IT,S A AMZING SITE.

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