Archive for July, 2009
A couple of minutes ago we received an info about a new phishing attack campaign. We don’t know who it’s made by but what we do know is that the good name of TemplateMonster is being involved into this in order for the “victims” to believe in what the criminals are trying to do. So right now we are informing you of this scheme in order for you to be able to identify it and therefore to protect yourself from becoming a victim. You may receive an email from help@servicepaypal.com informing you that you have purchased a template from TemplateMonster using paypal (even though you didn’t purchase anything – or at least did’t purchase this particular item with this transaction id). Plus there’s a “dispute transaction” link leading to something that may first seem a PayPal login page – but in fact it isn’t. That’s done in a typical spam fashion as they send these messages to everyone regardless of whether a person knows about TemplateMonster or not, with a plan that this person will want to dispute the transaction that he/she didn’t authorize (even though in fact there was no such transaction).
Now here comes the most important part – once you click the “dispute transaction” link and type in your PayPal email address and a password there you may kiss your real PayPal account goodbye because you’ve just shared your personal data with people who will not appreciate your trust and use it against you. What is also worth saying is that the “dispute transaction” link does not even use the paypal.com domain – that’s how you can tell it’s fake. The rest looks just like genuine PayPal page. Here’s what the fake URL looks like:
Please be careful about messages like this one, be sure to check the URLs of payment-related pages that you get to after similar spam messages before you actually insert your personal data there.
Of course this is not a matter of TemplateMonster security or something – the attack like this one may happen to every big company doing business online. By the way, PayPal is taking actions to this case and soon it will be over for the spammers – but right now we all have to be careful.
Ok, we agree this one is kinda similar to the awesome partner offers we have previously launched at TemplateMonster. However this particular one is great in its own special way. How about because with it you are able to purchase membership at half price and download a whole lot of 150 HD video effects. Oh yeah, VideoSmash.com really rocks for providing this 50% discount for TemplateMonster customers who purchase at least one of Flash or Flash-related templates (Flash templates, Flash Intros, Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries and SWiSH templates).
It’s not a coincidence that the offer is available to the Flash template owners – Flash animation is exactly what the video effects are meant for. Besides that – since the VideoSmash products are so awesome – you may even use them for making movie trailers, TV and video ads, special effects creation and even video broadcasting purposes. Cool, huh? To purchase the membership just pick one of the Flash or Flash-related products and proceed to checkout with it. Before you checkout you will be offered to purchase this membership (you will be able to do that in the same transaction along with the payment for the template). And there you have it – in several minutes from then you have a premium template AND a VideoSmash.com 90 day membership.
As you may know it’s a Comic-Con going on right now and TemplateMonster could not ignore this kind of event. And here we are with the collection of best website designs for superhero or comic-based movie websites. By the way – as great as the graphic designs are – it’s such a shame we cannot demonstrate the animations, the movie websites are all animated these days and the animations are also worth attention.
Besides, this review is great in terms of seeing how the design approach to the movie websites has changed over the past years. Anywyas, enjoy.
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The Incredible Hulk (2008, Universal Pictures, Marvel Studios, Valhalla Motion Pictures)
This website is truly incredible (just as Hulk is) – the functional elements are taken away from the center leaving the center for awesome animations and photos.
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The Punisher: War Zone (2008, Lions Gate Films, Marvel Studios, Valhalla Motion Pictures)
Even though the movie was not a great success judging by the box office data, the website is truly amazing, with creepy graphics and animations. Even the mouse pointer is in made the general style.
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Many of you are probably used to the CMS templates powered by Flash elements. Well, no wonder – we’ve added a bunch of those earlier this year (including the Magento with 360 rotation). But we have never had anything that’s a CMS template AND is enhanced with an interactive Flash image carousel. Please welcome our new awesome Flash Drupal template. Take a look:
Nice, isn’t it? Sure it is. Well, go ahead and hurry up to purchase it. Especially because today it’s available at a 5% discount (follow the discount link to have the price reduced).
Not that we didn’t plan it but we have no choice left – Twitter wouldn’t be so awesome without the world’s #1 player at the web design market. Yes, TemplateMonster has just launched an official Twitter account. By the way, check out the design theme we’ve produced for it:
But don’t worry, this blog will still remain the primary means of communication with our audience (good old blogging is always better than microblogging). However Twitter has been chosen as a place that we will use for distributing discount, special offers and design freebies (as well as a little bit of corporate news). So, you might want to join our followers there in order not to miss your own share of what we have.
This is a big day for all of you, our fellow design fans. Even bigger the day is for us at TemplateMonster as today our templates collection has reached the mark of astonishingly tremendous 25,000 items. It feels so good to realize this simple fact and to know that thousands and thousands of you guys are with as right now at this very moment.
As for the very special 25,000th template – well, it’s indeed special. That’s a template for a design studio with the “we are the best” motto. Sounds kinda familiar for everyone who knows TemplateMonster’s big mission (which – surprise, surprise – is also about being the best at virtually everything we mess with). Take a look at this beautiful Flash template:
Well, no holiday is a holiday without a little present. Here it is, the 25K-related: below is the promocode giving a 25% discount to the first 25 folks to insert it at the TemplateMonster checkout page.
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Hurry up to use it and enjoy your Champagne, guys! In the meantime we’ll start taking care of the next 25,000.
You have all probably heard of these awesome design bonuses we offer along with each purchase you make at TemplateMonster – including one year of free hosting and a free domain, free design elements and discounts from our partners. Well, recently we’ve found another great partner – WebCEO – the company producing the only truly ultimate SEO software.
Well, from now on this software is available to every single person who makes any purchase at TemplateMonster. With this offer you are able to get either SmallBiz Unleashed or Professional Unleashed with tremendous discount.
- Small Biz Unleashed – $149 (regular price $339 – you save $190)
- Pro Unleashed – $249 (regular price $479 – you save $230)
The package combines the advanced Web CEO functionality (either SmallBiz or Pro – depending on what verison you choose) and the Professional SEO/SEM online training course from the Web CEO University ($295 worth). The software itself generates optimization suggestions and in-depth analysis for selected keywords in Google, Yahoo, MSN; generates ranking report on more than 400 international, US, European, and Asian search engines; includes advanced features which allow you to effectively position your site in search engines and improve your conversion rate and ROI. Awesome, huh? Now go ahead and get yourself a template that would suit such a great bonus!
You may have heard that tomorrow will be the last day that the King of Pop will be in front of his dearest audience. There’s no way we could possibly stay aside from paying the last tribute to MJ the Great – please welcome our own little brick in the endless wall of the loving memories. The Michael Jackson WordPress theme we have produced was inspired by and is meant for sharing whatever the memories you may have, there are surely tons and tons of these memories.
Plus there’s a special price for this theme – we charge only $35 which is mostly the transaction and maintenance fees. In this way we strive to make it as affordable as possible and thus to attract maximum of you guys to keeping the good memories of Michael Jackson. Let’s just not forget that several generations of us were raised with his music on the background. So let his music live forever within each of us while we all will keep and share the memories.
Now, before the barbeque and frisbees that we are sure you’re all going to have tomorrow don’t forget to take advantage of the bonuses that we currently provide. Just a little something to make your sweet summer picnic even sweeter.
Sweet Little Something #1: The 20% discount for the most patriotic category of awesome political templates. The biggest collection of the most star-spangled designs you’ll ever find on the Internet. And yes, they are now 20% cheaper – the discount will be active until July 10th, not much time left.
Sweet Little Something #2: Not exactly from TemplateMonster, none less sweet though. It’s the 20% discount from our good friends at TemplateTuning.com. So whatever the template you purchase from us you will be able to customize it into whatever you wish for a price 20% lower than normally. Just make sure you purchase the template you want to customize from TemplateMonster to be able to save 20%. Also a nice present, isn’t it?
Well, you still have time to take advantage of these sweet summer surprises. So make sure to go ahead and do that. Consider that an essential part of your 4th of July celebration!
Independence Day is coming and we can’t miss such a great opportunity to share with you our vision of best designs for political websites. We have found many noble and original designs that present different parties and politicians in a very vivid and elegant way. Besides, you know how much we love these latest design trends. So today please welcome our Political Websites Showcase.
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Famous website of President Barack Obama is performed according to latest web design trends. Patriotic deep blue color scheme – which is basically classics for political designs – prove how professional the performance of this site is.
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The official website of White House is made in classical blue style (mentined above) with soft white background and original patterns. By the way, you may remember the old story of public discussion of how this website should be redesigned. The first part of the redesign process was initiated and discussed at Andy Rutledge website and after that the White House website actually did become better. But with the coming of Barack Obama the website finally become really awesome (you may also find the comparison of versions at SmashingMagazine)
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