Archive for August, 2009

So, You Want to Have a TemplateMonster Discount

Because of the excessive frenzy concerned with discounts at TemplateMonster we decided to clarify the situation and describe all possible ways to get Template Monster promo code and the respective “terms and conditions”.

1. First option is that our newsletter subscribers can receive a one-time 7% discount on any product subscribing for TemplateMonster newsletter. In order to get this discount you have to actually subscribe and click the confirmation link (or copy and paste it into your browser’s address bar). Having received the promocode, enter it at the checkout page. This discount is valid for only twenty-four hours.

2. Additionally, you will be given a 5% discount daily for newly added products. You will find the discount links in each newsletter email. Such cut rate is valid on the day the new templates are added. You may subsribe to our newsletter on the TemplateMonster homepage (bottom center)

3. Third option is a discount for completing the First Customer Survey. The point is that the customers who purchase something at TemplateMonster for the first time ever complete the first customer survey which instantly gives them a one-time 20% discount. However, not every purchase gives you the chance to complete the First Customer Survey – you only have to buy a web template, CMS or Blog template or eCommerce template. The promocode is active during 1 month.

4. Occasionally, we hold some special promos that are not discount-code-based (for instance, the category discount when all of the templates filed under certain category are discounted during certain period – e.g. Hotels category discount). We always announce about such campaigns in our reports, on our blog, and on Twitter. Therefore in order not to miss them we strongly suggest you to subscribe for our newsletter (new templates report), blog RSS, and Twitter updates.

5. Currently, we keep on publishing new 50% discount codes on our Twitter account – one day, one promocode, each of them will be active for 1 order (so the first person to use it will be the only one who takes advantage of that particular discount code). This is a real boom of discounts! So, go to our official Twitter account page right now and become our follower – in this case you’ll have the best of the bargain!

More 50% Discounts Will Soon Be Released

We don’t know about you but our team really enjoyed having a Twitter day promo and giving away 24 promocodes. Oh wait, we do know about you – many of our customers have contacted us saying that they didn’t have a chance to take advantage of it. Some of these people just weren’t fast enough and some weren’t following us on Twitter and therefore didn’t have a chance to get Template Monster promocode on the right moment. But all of them asked us to give them more discounts. And you know what? We think we will! More 50% Discounts Will Soon Be Released

More 50% Discounts Will Soon Be Released

During the next week starting Monday August 31st we will be publishing the new 50% discount codes on our Twitter account – one day, one promocode (except for Sunday, that’s a bad day for discounts – all of the righteous designers are supposed to go to church or something on Sunday). Once again, each of the promocodes will be active for 1 order at TemplateMonster so the first one to use each of them will be the only one to use that particular code. Besides, the promocodes will only be active for regular purchases, they’re not active for unique and buyout orders. All you have to do is be there in the right time – which means you have to follow us on you-know-what. So go our official Twitter page right now and become a follower in case you weren’t following us until this time. You won’t regret it. For more information on how to get TemplateMonster promo code visit our Promocodes Section.

The Improved Hotel Website Design is Now for Sale!

Remember the yesterday’s awesome redesign of the hotel’s website? We’ve redesigned an old and outdated website of Goldener Baer hotel. So now we’ve made some slight modifications to that design and here it is – available as a .PSD template. Take a look:

The Improved Hotel Website Design is Now for Sale!

Looks great, doesn’t it? And since it’s still August this template is available at a 20% discount that’s active for all of our templates filed under the Hotels templates category. Just make sure you purchase it before the category discount expires on 23:59 Aug 31st.

Supersonic Redesign – an Improved Version of Actual Hotel Website

Remember we’ve published a review of world’s top hotels’ websites that actually were not as good as these hotels? After having criticized them we decided to try to actually do something about this sad situation and here we are with what can become a new version of a ‘Goldener Baer’ hotel website (Vienna). By the way we were this close from having this surprise unveiled by one of the guys commenting that initial post. It’s a good thing we can now speak out loud about it. Anyways, please allow us to remind you guys of what was the website that we’ve redesigned:

Supersonic Redesign   an Improved Version of Actual Hotel Website

Well, as you see the design is pretty much outdated and it’s hard to call it really functional. So, we’ve worked on it a little bit and here it is – changed and improved:

Supersonic Redesign   an Improved Version of Actual Hotel Website

What did we do?
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Grunge Twitter Background – Download for Free Now!

This is a cheerful Twitter Day for TemplateMonster community! With this in mind, we decided to present you free Twitter Background based on premium Website template #24926. What’s also great about this promo is that the website template mentioned above is now available at a 20% discount – just use this promo code 2F4hl02zYsxiRBvrApE7pKBTG at the checkout page. Well, just in case you want to have both the Twitter background and the website template of the same style.

Speaking of discounts… You do remember that we are currently having a Twitter day, right? There are still 13 discounts left – each one giving you a 50% discount! Hurry up to follow us on Twitter to get one of those!

Grunge Twitter Background   Download for Free Now!

What’s also important about this new freebie is that, unlike previously distributed Twitter backgrounds, this one is of much more neutral and global topic. This means it can be used for about 99% of all Twitter Accounts, with no limits. Attractive, isn’t it? Download it now!

Flash CMS Templates Are Coming Up!

TemplateMonster has no rest, friends! Recently we have signed an agreement with FlashMoto.com – a project developing the FlashMoto CMS. Without a doubt this innovation will impress you greatly. Very soon we will be providing premium designs for this Flash CMS. Until that time you are all able to test open Beta-version of this brand new software.

As you may know, Flash CMS is a powerful and revolutionary application designed to simplify the maintenance of any Flash content. Feel free in design, graphic effects and animation while any content of your website can be edited with a convenient admin panel. Such a flexible content management system extends functionality with your Flash website presenting a number of indispensable features:

  • - Any Flash website can be managed!
  • - Ability to add unlimited number of pages.
  • - No skills required.
  • - Advanced WYSIWYG page and pop-up editor.
  • - The Richest Media Library. Built-in image editor.
  • - InfoModule, Video & Image Gallery Component
  • - Video, MP3 players Component
  • - SEO optimized Flash Website. Deep Linking. Google Analytics Integration
  • - Custom modules and widgets integration.
  • - Comprehensive documentation & tutorials.

Flash CMS Templates Are Coming Up!

So, accept our congratulations people because it’s going to be a heck of a holiday for you! The long-awaited Flash CMS templates will soon be at your full disposal (the launch on TemplateMonster is scheduled for September 2009). In the meantime all of the Flash fans are invited to take part in the FlashMoto CMS free beta-testing to evaluate all of the benefits successfully combined in Flash CMS.

Flash CMS Templates Are Coming Up!

Update: FlashMoto has introduced its customer-support and feedback community for overall users’ feedbacks. So from now on, any person concerned has a possibility to ask a question, share an idea, report a problem, or give praise on FlashMoto related issues, mainly FlashMoto products and services they use. To take part, please feel free to visit the FlashMoto community section.

Twitter Insanity Day at TemplateMonster!

Ok, the time has come to reward the ones who has become (and will become) our Twitter follower – we will give out a whole lot of 24 promocodes – each one giving a huge 50% discount for any template purchase at TemplateMonster. The codes will be published on the official TemplateMonster Twitter page, each new promocode will be revealed within approximately 1 hour after the previous one.

Twitter Insanity Day at TemplateMonster!

Each of the promocodes will be active for 1 order at TemplateMonster so the first one to use each of them will be the only one to use that particular code. Besides, the promocodes will only be active for regular purchases, they’re not active for unique and buyout orders. However it is not prohibited for one person to use multiple promocodes during the promo day – in case this person will be able to be the first to use multiple codes. Anyways, this is going to be fun for all of us, just make sure you follow us to be one of the first ones to see the code appearing.

The Flash Worlds – Top Websites Based on Flash Environments

Since their very first days Flash-based website environments have been a matter of obsession for millions of Flash artists and graphic designers. Not long ago having a website with this sort of 3D-style environment has become really popular and that’s when we started seeing more and more websites of this kind. So now we present a collection of websites based on Flash environments – please welcome.

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SensiSoft

The Flash Worlds   Top Websites Based on Flash Environments

Since most of the websites of this kind are so creative for their navigation solutions this one can be called a typical one – it does have an original navigation solution.

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Zeroix

The Flash Worlds   Top Websites Based on Flash Environments

This one’s navigation may not be as awesome as with some of the others but it does have one of the most impressive graphics on this list (or maybe even the most impressive). All of the website’s elements are based on custom 3D models designed exclusively for this website – even the background. Not to mention the mini-game of website’s preloader.
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Free Hotel Website Template – Nice and Comfy

We have a new freebie for you – a free premium hotel website template that can’t wait for you to apply it to your website! All of you, our good friends, must have been missing things like this one during all of the last week’s website hardships. But today we stand tall with a new beautiful free website template that’s meant for being used as your own websites. We’re talking about a free Hotel website template, here it is:

Free Hotel Website Template   Nice and Comfy

Besides we hope you remember that in addition to this promo we also have a monster 20% discount that lasts during August 2009 – the premium hotels website templates are 20% cheaper with this discount. Of course the free hotel template is just as good as they are, it’s just that the paid premium templates are also not that expensive during the days of the discount. Plus, there’s a whole lot of around 160 hotels templates – truly a biggest selection available on the Internet. A lot of things to do as you see – start with downloading the free hotel template.

TemplateMonster Website DNS Problem – Latest Updates

Ok, we have some news here. And it really seems like this whole DNS thing is almost fixed now – at least we really hope so. Plus we do have a comment from our CEO Mr. David Braun. Here’s what he said about the current situation:

“Of course we have a team of system administrators and network engineers. The problem does not appear to be on our end. It seems to be a DNS issue and our current provider – which is EasyDNS.com – does not accept that fact. We’ve switched to another provider just several minutes ago. It will take a couple of hours for it to be propagated for most users. If this will resolve the problem – then it will be obvious that it was the EasyDNS’ issue. Please continue to inform us about the status, especially people who already had problems.”

Well, you’ve heard the man – we’re taking actions and hopefully everything is going to be over in a couple of hours. However please keep informing us if you still have this problem. Thanks.

UPDATE (AUG 26 2009): After having investigated the issue deeply we found that the problem described above was in no way caused by EasyDNS.com’s services (it was caused by one of our hosting providers instead). In fact, we would like to thank EasyDNS.com staff and management for their prompt and professional assistance on this issue. We kindly ask them to accept our apologies.