Archive for January, 2010
You may have heard that earlier we announced a great contest – Share Your Template Customizations and Win A Free Template! And we are glad to inform you that today is a great day because we are ready to unveil the names of our lucky winners and show their great customization works. Actually it was really interesting to check out all the good stuff that you’ve sent us – there is no better fun for TemplateMonster than just surfing trough live websites that are based on our templates. This is a great experience for our team because we can see live results of our work and make many useful conclusions. It is a great opportunity to see the world of web design from another point of view – the point of website owners. So let’s start summing up the results of January 2010!
#5. Andres Betancourt
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I originally like this template because in its main landing page it displays the gallery, with the option of maximizing the size of your art work characteristic which I wanted my site to feature. Adding to this the cool transitions from page to page. What I did was to create an intro page using my logo that now covers the entire site with a transparency, I also minimize the amount of gallery pieces from 32 to 16 changing the overall look of the gallery.
We are happy to announce that our dearest partner VideoSmash.com has launched another striking solution for motion design – this time it’s a new Heart Flash Animation Pack that is now available instead of the Abstract video effects pack previously offered at TemplateMonster. This new pack will also be available at a 50% discount, after all TemplateMonster clients are very special, everybody knows that.
What’s exciting about the pack given is that it comprises 10 majestic video effects of whirling and dancing hearts which all bring the charming feeling of love. Each video effect in this pack is enclosed into real HD quality (HD 720p) in the latest H.264 format and with a frame rate of 29.97 fps. Not to mention a stunning musical accompaniment for the greater emotional impact.
Thus by paying just $17 ($35 regular price) you can now get this thrilling set in a single purchase for maximum savings. Plus there is St. Valentine’s Day just round the corner, so heart animation could serve you a big deal expressing your inmost sensations.
Hurry up to browse our templates and right after you pick the one you like this marvelous Heart Flash Animations Pack will be offered to you!
You may have noticed that we’ve started highlighting some interesting jQuery solutions and last week’s post was about jQuery-based online portfolios. So, we are glad to continue our jQuery series and today’s blog entry is about some really stunning effects that will spice up your website and amaze your visitors with supa-troopa details.
There is no doubt that jQuery scripts deserve to be called one of the best inventions in web design for last years. It’s not so easy to find a solution that would be more functional and effective than these scripts. The following solutions are hard to categorize but it doesn’t mean that these are not worth your attention. So let’s dive in the world of dynamic and spectacular jQuery gismos.
Paralax
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In this blog entry we’ll introduce you the first part of what we think are the widespread web design trends so far. This actually comes down to everything that is currently of any significant design relevance. Thus we ask you, our friends, to help us define the top web design trends for the year of 2010 by choosing what you consider to be the most important ones and voting for them in the comments section of this post. You know we always appreciate communication and for this little help you will be able to win a free template (either a template containing your favorite trend or any other item) and one of two discounts – one for 50% and another for 30%. The voting will last for one week (until Feb 2nd 2010) and the winners will be randomly chosen from the ones who comment on this post so make sure you type in the valid email address.
In the long run, many blogs and publications individually define what trends will eventually become the most prominent ones. As for us – we’re sure that our numerous audiences have their personal thoughts on this issue to share. After all, the whole situation could be observed only on conditions of the maximum number of people having there opinions expressed. So feel free to bring your own unique ideas to the discussion:
1. More Whitespace:
The increasing prominence of white space has now become a conspicuous tendency. Being the key for simplicity, white in web design is extremely beneficial to build a page structure with an intelligible flow of content. This helps to focus users’ attention on the most important areas of the website.
Nest-living.com
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Flash template #27378
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2. Change of Perspective:
If we take a close look at the image perspective on websites of this web design trend, we’ll be able to spot the shift to a more realistic view since lots of web designers now play around with different image proportions, slants, and standpoints.
Kusoyama.com
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Our dear friends, please be informed that tomorrow starting 1AM EST and until 5AM EST TemplateMonster website will be down due to the servers maintenance procedures that we’re planning. That’s no big deal so please don’t worry about us, everything’s going to be back to normal just a couple of hours after the maintenance measures start.
We are very sorry for the inconveniences that this website downtime may cause. Thank you for understanding.
Things are getting more and more social. And we thought that expanding our social presence to some more awesome social networks would be just great. After all each of these social networks is where we can spend precious time with you, our precious audience. Anyways, further resistance is impossible and we’re rolling out our brand new Facebook page (along with the awesome new design of our corporate blog that you see all around starting today).
Ok now, back to Facebook. That page is going to be a place for us to learn more about you, about what you want us to be and for us it’s a platform for showing you guys our love to each and every one of you. Of course we’re going to do that in a typical TemplateMonster fashion – by providing you with the latest freebies, bonuses, awesome design news and contests.
Anyways, we are all going to have a lot of fun – after all, that’s what this ‘Social NOTworking’ thing is about – having fun. Ok, now everybody hurry up to TemplateMonster Facebook page, become one of our first fans, check out the first portions of info we’ve had time to share by now. And be sure to let us know what you think of it all – after all, that’s what this whole social thing is about.
It’s not a secret that jQuery and other JavaScript-based tools are getting more and more popular these days among web designers and developers. jQuery in turn has become the primary tool for adding dynamics to a static website because of how easy it is to use and how many pre-made script templates are available.
Today we are happy to present a series of reviews of websites using jQuery tools for various purposes. And we start with the collection of websites using jQuery for their awesome portfolios. Plus, we’ll provide a tip on how to start for those who are interested in this kind of solution for online portfolio.
1MD
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Charlie Gentle
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There have always been many design trends which determined the most popular aspects of web design. Today we’ll focus our attention on the diverse texture patterns being applied to website designs.
We all know that textures now are extremely common and popular, though it’s a long way already that they have been commonly employed. The designers currently have put various textured patterns to even greater use, eventually accomplishing completely different, seamlessly tiling website styles.
But what is the point of such an insane popularity? It may well be that the textures give the websites completely different feel with all those subtle undertones which are rendered within each particular pattern. The websites with a textured look can easily articulate various messages the designer wanted to imply. Plus, the texture usually sets the overall mood of the website creating truly unique and individual foundation.
When it comes down to the applying aspect, texture patterns can be differently accomplished to a web design. In some cases textures can be used to emphasize a particular part of the design. More often they are tailored in combination with many other design elements. Throughout the layout, the textures usually remain in the background to support the tone of the design and make the website content easier to perceive. We may also spot the textured samples in headers, sidebars, footers, or other content areas – it actually depends.
In this post we’re featuring the variety of 150 awesomely textured websites sorted by certain motifs – that is the texture pattern used in each particular set. Make sure, there are lots of design options to find inspirational and useful. In this stunning showcase you may also discover TemplateMonster templates where textures have been as well applied to the design. Ok, now it’s high time to get started:
Wood Texture Set
Vandervaartofficial.com
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Perfectorder.jp
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Template Monster has now officially become ‘TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award’ winner for multiple years running!
According to TopTenREVIEWS, our website was announced to be the largest and the most comprehensive website template service on the Internet that delivers high quality templates, keep up with technology and popular platforms, and provides great customer service.
Here’s what exactly has been mentioned:
“Template Monster really is the best of the best, and they just keep getting better. They offer more templates than anyone else, keep on top of technology and provide great support and service. If you are a small company or organization without a webmaster, they offer great complete solutions or if you are a designer, they provide high quality templates that will definitely help you keep your clients coming back to you for more. Everyone wins with Template Monster.”
For sure, this award will take pride of its place in our Awards section among the rest of our honored prizes!
Japan is known for being… Ehmm… Being not like the rest of the world. So are some of the landing pages – they’re known for sometimes being the designers’ nightmares (or vicious dreams of web design’s evil geniuses). We’re sure you understand why, we’ve all seen those long landing pages overloaded with “buy now” buttons, testimonials and other tricky design elements.
We’re not here to judge though and you’re the ones who is supposed to decide whether or not these designs and promo methods are ‘kosher’. All we want to say is that Japan has turned this design direction into arts (as it usually does) and Japanese landing pages appear to be really ass-kicking.
So as someone who’s constantly broadening your horizons TemplateMonster is proud to present the 30 of the most mind-blowing (and thus inspirational) Japanese landing page designs.
Kenkoucorp.com
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Scalp-d.com
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