Archive for November, 2009
Ahh, it feels so good to be one of the first website to have launched the Christmas design customizations this holiday season. And we’re sure you’re gonna love these – after all it’s the Christmas spirit, you can’t fight it once it’s there! Here’s what the website looks like currently:
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As you can see, we’ve customized a company logo, functional area background and tiling area. Plus notice the little things such as header links, the Affiliate program banner and some smaller functional signs (the search form button text, the featured products column etc.). So in case you’re a website owner you might want to start thinking on your own Christmas customizations, hopefully our little design hints will inspire you for something cheerful!
And don’t forget to let us know what you think about this design customization in the comments section for this entry.
Ok, guys, it’s high time to share some very exclusive bits of information related to constantly upgrading technologies in the field of web design. We discuss here the non-stop media innovations, namely the newly launched AfterEffects Intros – video templates for TV and video professionals, developed by TemplateMonster.
Newly-crafted AfterEffects Intros were designed specifically to fascinate you with professional Adobe AfterEffects efficiency. And if you want to create professionally distinguished videos with intensely modified design approach, resort to these high-tech templates which can be a good solution for video ads production, special effects creating, or for video post-production and editing. Another direction that this media product range may be used for is for TV and broadcasting.
Plus, AfterEffects Intros are available in full HD quality (HD 1080) and their flexible resolution is perfect for maximum effect of highly-detailed rendering! Therefore, you may apply these templates as well for web purposes and for Flash video creation – which is what our ordinary Flash intros are meant. So, in other words this product is good for much more ways of use than the ‘old’ Flash intros.
Oh, almost forgot – please feel free to watch the AfterEffects Intros video presentation to learn more about this new product.
As you may know, TemplateMonster is a solid company that does not talk at random being fully responsible for all the tasks assigned. That is the way it was with the website redesign of the Hotel ‘Goldener Baer’ in Vienna. Let’s brush it all up!
You may remember originally published post that cited the worst website designs of world hotels that are actually great. That caused a tide of moot points!
After having censured all those indeed unsuccessful design efforts, we decided to actually do something about it to change the course of the events. In fact, we offered our cost free redesign services to any of those websites that stroke the aforementioned list. The lucky one appeared to be ‘Goldener Baer’ hotel website!
So, we took up the deal, and that was enthralling, we should say. The new version of the website lived up to our expectations.
For now, allow us to remind you of what the initial look of the website we’ve redesigned was:
What we have done is that we completely modified the layout, including graphical design of subpages, coding, and the addition of new sections. And even that was not enough. The structure of the website as well required some functional changes. So, we worked on it a little bit having replenished it with extra texts, added an interactive map to show hotel location on Google Maps, user-friendly navigation menu, and much more. We’ve also added functional blocks that were supposed to be the important links to apply.
And what we have eventually received – there’s a world of difference! Have a look:
That is it! Not so long ago this project was successfully completed. So far as we have enlivened the discounts for Hotels category templates, it is appropriate to mention that supersonic redesign of ours!
Web design has a lot of trends that are constantly changing, the old ones get away, the new ones emerge in an endless process of design evolution. So no wonder that there are endless discussions of web design trends going on and on all over the Internet – even we have published the web design of 2009 trends review. So now we’re after something that’s currently popular. We have even managed to find a couple or reviews of top trends for 2010 done by WebDesignLedger and DesignTutorials4U. These guys have done a great job but we feel like we have a couple of ideas to add.
By the way, all of the trends are illustrated with our own templates’ designs. After all, we do not only talk about trends, we actually follow them. Enjoy!
1. Social Icons
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Trend description: Social network icons are getting bigger and bigger (just as their value grows). Besides, they often get customized according to the general website style.
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Well, folks, the holiday season is upon us, and It’s time to celebrate it all with Thanksgiving bringing in loads of good cheer. This holiday, after all, is one of those joyous events Template Monster celebrates with lots of love and gratitude!
As we all know, Thanksgiving is a word of action. Template Monster therefore offers its thanks and expresses its gratitude in the way special. We decided to present our customers a whole lotta special holiday discounts (the more products you buy the bigger discount you get for your further purchase) and free items (free membership at ProClipart.com giving you the access to the royalty free clip art and IconDemon.com offering Web Icons in case you make more than 8 purchases), to add some zest to our festivities.
This Thanksgiving promo will last during the period from November 1st to November 25th, 2009. Within this time we will count the number of purchases registered for each email address (make sure to use only one email address for all your purchases at TemplateMonster), and according to this number will give out the proper gifts to everyone on November 26th.
Eager to derive more, check out our Thanksgiving Promo Presentation to enrich yourself with some interesting bits of information, related to the occasion.
So, let’s bask in the Thanksgiving spirit getting some really cool gifts from the kind Monster!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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