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:
July 18th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
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
July 19th, 2007 at 2:26 am
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″.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
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.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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
July 19th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
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.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
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).
July 20th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
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!)
July 21st, 2007 at 2:23 am
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.
July 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am
I agree with NightMan.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Second template is so cool. But it seems it will be more cool with medics stuff.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
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
July 24th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
All the designs are really cool. Template Monster always produce high quality stuff for the market. Thanks TM
July 26th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
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
July 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
really cool ! hoever i was looking for some web 2.0 osdate templates, but cannot find any such cartegory here.
August 4th, 2007 at 12:05 am
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)
August 16th, 2007 at 12:40 am
August 16th, 2007 at 1:18 am
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.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:43 am
“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
September 12th, 2007 at 11:54 am
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
October 26th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
—> EXACT !!!!! i understand you !!!! Will be cool !!
October 29th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Is there any validator or something else to tell whether a site is an Web 2.0?
October 29th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Here What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
January 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
o don’t see on template monster Themes for Vbulletin forum platform, can any help me please ?
January 25th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I agree with NightMan.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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…
July 31st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
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