Archive for September, 2009
Remember we’ve designed several Twitter Themes in August, guys, that was not the end! Yes, we suspend doing them, but having got lots of requests, Template Monster recommends our partners from Templates.com for those who really want to snatch cool Twitter theme.
Currently, there is a huge Twitter marathon at Templates.com. In its course, they carry a new promo launching spectacular Twitter Backgrounds each day just for free. The bottom line for all that is to give each Twitter follower an opportunity to upgrade personal Twitter background and make it a sample of exquisite style.
Have a look at these funky Twitter themes:
Ingenious and creative, these Twitter backgrounds are worked out in different styles for any tastes. Among them you can easily find the one that matches your ideas and the main theme of your Twitter profile.
So far, there are 10 free Twitter Backgrounds, but till the end of September Templates.com promises to create more original and stunning themes. It should be just noted that all of the twitter backgrounds are absolutely free for Templates.com registered members. If you are not yet a member, make sure you start with the registration.
You are able to keep your twitter account really catchy, hurry up to get firsthand Twitter Backgrounds free of charge!
As you previously know, Template Monster originally published a post entitled Ugliest Websites of World’s Top Hotels that caused a burst of comments both criticizing and encouraging. This fact couldn’t leave us indifferent, and consequently, we made Supersonic Redesign of the worst (in our opinion) hotel website – the website of the Hotel Goldener Baer in Vienna. For all that, we got even greater amount of feedbacks (many thanks for them), and what was truly exciting that one of the active participants of the dispute, mentioned above, drew a sketch depicting his own vision of a new design for Goldener Baer website. As we know, in any design, as well as in any web design, various approaches are possible. Thus and so, we invited Steven to complete his sketch and write a guest post on Template Monster’s blog to acquaint our readers with alternative (in relation to our) redesign variant.
It should be noted that our approach is in marked contrast to Steven’s. He initiated with logo and corporate style changes. We focused on a website, and intentionally didn’t make any logo modifications since it would have entailed the change of corporate style which is far expensive than simply website redesign. Through differential approaches, we cannot accede to Steven’s criticism of our variant, but we have concluded to leave the original text to let the readers decide whose approach and whose variant is better.
So gain a deep insight into what Steven Moseley has written:
“Although the original Hotel Goldener Baer website looks about 15 years outdated and poorly designed, it contains a visual language that speaks very directly to the “character” of the Hotel.
How so? The Goldener Baer is a historic structure – textural, rustic, quaint. Consequently, the hotel’s website is also very textural, rustic, and quaint – indeed, to a fault, but that’s beside the point. The site has “character”. We’ll get more into what that means later.
Although the Supersonic Redesign of the website is unarguably more professional and usable (vastly so), the character of the Gold Baer somehow got lost in translation.
The redesigned website no longer speaks a rustic, quaint language. Instead, it speaks a corporate language, with chamfered boxes, radiused corners on buttons, pastel green and blue colors, and soft gradients. The only real texture in the site is in the background, but it doesn’t “feel” old-world. Instead, it has the feeling of mid-20th century wallpaper (not the kind you put on your computer desktop – the kind you actually paste onto walls!) In the new site, the stone textures, gold highlights, and serif typography used in the old site are all gone – and along with them, all of the character that define the hotel.
Well, people – you know us, we always try to provide our services better. This time we’re holding a little survey in which we kindly ask you to let us know what RSS feed reading software you use. We need to know this in order to be able to better optimize our RSS channels for your needs.
This survey will only take a minute – or even less – after all there is only one question in it, and we think you know that question by now. Anyways, your opinion is really important to us – as always – so please go to our survey page.
Guys, no longer will you wait for Zeroix Flash template – here it comes – devilishly Premium! The most exclusive web design project has been successfully launched. Hurrays! From now on, Zeroix Premium Flash Template is fully available for purchase at TemplateMonster – for as low as $290!
What makes it all so special? The template was submitted to us by our friends from Zeroix design group – initially they’ve designed it as their project website but when we saw how awesome it was we decided that many of you would want to have it as a template – with its hypercreative design and vigorous animations! Plunge into mysterious world of smooth and beautiful gloom where even the smallest element scares you with its realism and at the same time captivates with the beautiful gloom.
For the first time in its history, TemplateMonster renders the template (in fact, all-3D and full-Flash polished website) that will live its own life in addition to its direct functional goal. It’s amazing but true. We invite everyone to purchase this fundamental custom design and animation from Zeroix team. Besides, in case any of you would want to have a custom design made by the design devils from Zeroix – you are welcome! There’s a form you can fill on the Zeroix promo page and in this way get a quote and apply to getting a custom design.
The week has passed in a blink of an eye and today we find our new partners FlashMoto.com on a third place in the InsideRIA voting (in case you don’t know they’re choosing the best Rich Internet Application of 2009 – see the post published earlier for more details on the voting itself).
Right now we want to ask you guys to give your votes for FlashMoto – you know we really want to provide you, our customers, with Flash CMS templates powered by the award-winning Flash CMS. Besides, I really think you would also want that. By the way in case you don’t know what FlashMoto is please hurry up to subscribe as a beta-tester – that’s absolutely free! And then in case you like this CMS – we’re sure you will – vote for FlashMoto on InsideRIA voting.
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.
Folks, we have a new riveting surprise for you! TemplateMonster has struck a deal with Allstockmusic.com – an ultimate resource containing all kinds of premium stock music and stock sounds you may possibly need. The best thing about it all is that you can purchase a membership at AllStockMusic.com at a way reduced price ($49 instead of $99 regular price) in case you buy any Flash-related product at TemplateMonster.com (that’d be either a Flash Template, SWiSH Template, Flash Intro or Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery).
In case you apply to this offer you will get a 3-months access to an AllStockMusic.com account with 150 credits on it, you will be able to use these credits for getting whatever stock music items that you wish. Awesome, isn’t it?
So this is surely an offer that you cannot possibly say no to! Upscale Flash templates along with a huge collection of professionally crafted musical tracks – you are free to get the full Monty! Now everybody hurry up to get those Flash templates!
Well, to be honest the reaction we’ve received during the past days of Twitter-published 50% discount codes was not exactly the kind of reaction we have expected. The thing is that a lot of people appeared to be not fast enough to be the first ones to use the discount codes published and started having some sort of second thoughts that the discounts are nothing but fakes. Well, aside from how it hurts us to hear that kind of feedback in response to the bonus offer we would like to provide an alternate point of view. We have contacted one of the customers who has used the code (and did it without much efforts) and asked him to tell us how he did that.
Here’s a feedback from Anthony Graziano, a UK based Graphic Designer (Web, Print & Motion), Agrazi.com
“Yes I was very pleased to get the discount. I jumped at the chance to follow you on Twitter and couldn’t believe my luck when I won the opportunity. I saw your update and within 10 seconds I bought the template I had my eye on. The template had some good design devices that I wanted to use to form the basis of a new website for an IT support company.
I’ve used many of your templates, as they are supplied or as a starting point to put together a whole new design. You’ve never let me down and it’s superb value for money.”
So, as you see people DO get the discounts from us and these discounts DO work. Just make sure you follow our updates on Twitter. And try to really be the first to use it – that means acting in a matter of seconds (not minutes). So, in case you were not the lucky one to get a discount this time – just get over it and wait for the next one (and believe me – there will always be a next one for those who wait). In the meantime everyone go to our Twitter page and follow the updates – the next discount code will be released very soon.
Remember last week we’ve announced our new partnership with FlashMoto.com? Well, after we have announced that soon we will launch the Flash CMS templates powered by FlashMoto CMS tons of Flash fans have rushed to their website to be the first ones to test the free beta version. And you know what? In just a couple of days the number of their beta-testers and subscribers has reached a whole lot of 16K! (That’s according to the official FlashMoto blog entry.) That’s about three times as many as they had before partnering with TemplateMonster.
But even that’s not all! It appears to be that FlashMoto is now one of the 10 semi-finalists of the “Best of RIA 2009″ voting. So they’re already in the list of top 10 rich Internet applications and now they’re on their way to the finals. By the way, in case you have already tested the FlashMoto CMS and saw how awesome it is we will greatly appreciate your support in the voting that’s now active. For those who didn’t test it yet – please go ahead and do that (it’s free after all) and be sure to vote in the semifinals of the best RIA 2009 – you know who’s the best 
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.
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