Archive for February, 2010
Keeping the flow of great customization examples within our monthly customizations contest, we’ll currently feature the works of the three lucky winners of February race.
We thank all the other participants for their attention towards the contest, but as they say it – there can only be one winner (and two more for the discounts). Plus, it is another great chance for us to reveal the results of our diligent work in creating the best templates on the net – and your design and customizing efforts. Now it’s high time to present you our winners!
#3. Osvaldo Schaukoski (that’s a 40% discount)
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Comments from the author:
Again I had to change the 3D transition and as you don’t provide the source of your 3D animations I made an animation over it, using blending modes to change the eye colors to a CMYK pattern.
On this project I managed to keep the pixel fonts, I like them, my clients are the ones that complain they are too small.
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We’re very excited to announce that the new design and functionality of TemplateMonster shopping cart have been launched today. Some of you may have noticed that by now, some not. To those users who haven’t seen it yet – go to your shopping cart and press the “Switch back to the new design of shopping cart” button at the top of the page to see the new fucntionality. Plus you will also be able to switch to the other variant (the one that basically has the old functionality) by pressing the “Switch back to the old design of shopping cart” button. Here’s what the button looks like:
In a couple of words the new features of the shopping cart include a more comfortable way of displaying special offers that you may purchase along with the template you initially picked – that’s one version of shopping cart.
The second variant is basically the updated design of the old shopping cart. But one major update – valid for both versions – is that the checkout process is now easier to go through due to the division into purchase stages that are intuitively easy to understand (the names of these stages vary depending on what shopping cart version you choose).
So you are now all welcome to test the new shopping cart – both variants of it. And of course we will greatly appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Oh, and here’s something for you to make the testing process more pleasant – the 30% discount code, valid for all purchases at TemplateMonster today and tomorrow. Just make sure you clear your cookies in case you’ve been visiting TemplateMonster website via affiliate links sometime in the past; and make sure you don’t use any sorts of affiliate links now because Template Monster promocode is only valid for direct purchases from TemplateMonster. By the way, the promocode field is now located at the bottom of the first stage page of shopping cart, that’s where you will have to paste the following code:
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Just go and pick the template you want to purchase now!
Update: Please note that the promocode above is no longer valid now and using it will not reduce the order price. For more information on how to get Template Monster promo code visit our Promocodes Section.
Looking for glossy globe imagery? Guys, you’re in the right place as TemplateMonster is the place for great globe designs! Current technologies fully allow creating 3D objects of extreme beauty to enhance visual art performance with unbelievable volumetric samples. Therewith, our good friends from VideoSmash.com have recently added an impressive Globe Video Effects Pack, so you can now easily articulate your design sensibilities with mastery executed globe models. By the way, this Globes video effects pack is now being offered at a 50% discount to TemplateMonster customers, feel free to learn more about this VideoSmash promo.
Back to the globes now. This kind of art in graphic design has gained a vast popularity nowadays through the wide capabilities to create unconventional imaging and apply it to whatever project you may have. Models to be featured today range from uncommonly beautiful to the classical ones and function as an outstanding value.
Among the most popular TemplateMonster’s templates there are lots of themes crafted with globe designs, by the way. With this advanced collection source, a comprehensive range of Template products, we enable you to access and integrate globe imagery seamlessly into business applications. They would definitely suit creating identity presentation of any worldwide company offering spinning animations or still images of earth.
BusinessFinances
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JD Consult
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Q Business
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TemplateMonster today brings the special offer delivering the Globe Video Effects Pack – a set of 10 premium quality special video effects that depict glossy 3D models of the Globe. Now please note that for a limited time period this special offer is available at a 50% discount (that’d be $19 instead of the $38 full price offered at VideoSmash.com). To take advantage of that huge discount you only have to purchase any product from TemplateMonster and you’ll be offered the Globe Video Effects Pack on TemplateMonster checkout (you’ll be able to pay that tiny price of $19 for that video effects pack while paying for the product you purchase from TemplateMonster).
The current Globe Video effects pack is as a matter of fact an extremely useful tool for web design purposes as well as for creating Flash intros, spectacular animations and backgrounds for TV news or worldwide sports events overviews. It may as well be fully applicable in multimedia presentations, website design, animation, media projects, or science. Being enclosed into real HD quality (HD 720p), these effects are musically illustrated to render the most exhaustive impact (but please note that the video is encoded with Quicktime JPEG codec). Just imagine how dramatically it could change the performance with innovative globe models perfectly implemented!
Alright, you get the point – now time for some action! Go ahead and browse TemplateMonster products, pick yours and enjoy the special offer for these lovely Globe Video Effects!
“Battle for developers” is a short and sharp description of the situation that has emerged recently in the environment that we all live in – the Internet. The Web audience can’t stop buzzing about the “Epic Battle” between Flash and HTML 5. Here are some facts of this confrontation. The cornerstone of this struggle lies in a rivalry between Apple and Adobe. But now it is not a simple fight between two of the world’s leading IT companies – it is more of a struggle for the future of the web itself. Internet never stops evolving and HTML 5 is the evident results of this process – along with Adobe Flash.
The Video Episode
It is not a secret that most of the web standards are very much tied to Flash technology and when such media giants as YouTube and Vimeo have started playing their content with the help of HMTL 5 in addition to the good old Flash and it was a huge surprise for some companies. Here are examples of two players that are avaliable on YouTube. The designs are almost identical but there are several details that are worth being mentioned. HTML5 player has original feature that allows to choose the connection speed – you can see this panel in the bottom left corner. Plus, since it’s HTML 5 the player is so far supported by just a few browsers – but that’s more like a problem of a browser, not the player. What’s also important is that the HTML 5 player is faster than the Flash player.
HTML5 – Things We All Totally Love About It!
In our opinion HTML 5 is a great web standard that does have a lot of brilliant features that neither HTML 4 nor Flash have.
- First and foremost HTML 5 greatly simplifies the creation of websites and web products.
- Video elements. We’ve already mentioned that video elements thing and this is one of the best HTML 5 features because you can embed video without having to use any kinds of third party services.
- HTML 5 facilitates your work with various web applications and this is really cool feature because it allows you to implement different apps even without having an Internet connection.
- Another great feature is the new approach to the “canvas” element. According to the developers this element will allow you to design it all “on-the-fly”. Here’s a great example of using this tag – below you’ll find a great model called Cloth Simulation. This model was created by Andrew Hoyer with the help of the canvas tag and some jQuery scripts.
Ok guys, as we all know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary and is a way to easily distribute a feed of latest news and update notices pushing the website content for quick scanning. RSS is just perfect for information junkies who want to have a better way to be notified of new and changed content without any unnecessary cluttering.
As for the designs of RSS we’ve stumbled upon, it was astonishingly surprising to find such intensely creative concepts. Yet, if it’s a big design website, blog, or news-related project there is no excuse to have simply boring and conventional RSS icon. The visitors should retrieve an evident touch of artistic flair in everything when it comes to web design, otherwise it would be rather tedious to browse it all. Now let’s have it brief and to the point – you’re welcome to surf through the awesome RSS designs crafted with a way of talent:
Bleumocca.com
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Ilovecolors.com.ar
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While the Olympic hills of Vancouver are being rocked by the world-famous athletes, TemplateMonster is happy to present the Olympics-inspired collection of winter sport equipment websites to get you in the spirit of the tremendous snow fun.
Featuring top brands in sports apparel, footwear, and winter equipment, we hold the terrific round-up for any sports enthusiast. Let us pelt you with the snowfalls of winter images, pictures, figures, colors and integrated sports concepts to make your experience this Olympic Winter as satisfying as possible. Our gallery serves as a prime spot for getting those creative juices flowing. So, be active and stay with us – we’re kicking off right now!
Spyder.com
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Oakley.com
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Are you just as crazy about the Vancouver Olympics as we are? Well in this case you’re going to love the new freebies that we’re giving away. This time, in addition to the free twitter backgrounds that we’ve previously distributed, it’s about the free Twitter backgrounds containing Winter Olympics motifs – designed by TemplateMonster using the official design elements from VANOC and Vancouver2010.com.
So please feel free to download these free Winter Olympics Twitter backgrounds and apply them to your Twitter accounts. You may add your own elements to them (like your name for example). But please make sure you don’t modify the contents of these backgrounds, that’s prohibited according to the Olympics Commetee rules. And don’t remove the VANOC/COVAN copyright signatures, once again even though those backgrounds are designed by TemplateMonster there are VANOC design elements there, so let’s respect that. Besides that you cannot resell these Winter Olympics Twitter backgrounds or use them as parts of your portfolios. Anyways, we’re sure you guys will treat them wisely – just as it is meant by the Olympic spirit. Remember that these backgrounds are distributed on a non-commercial basis and popularizing the Olympic spirit is the sole purpose TemplateMonster has released those backgrounds.
Olympic Torch Twitter background
Click the image to see it in full size, then "Save Image As..." to save it.
Other design instructions:
Make sure you uncheck the “tile background” checkbox while uploading the background image.
Background color: FFFFFF
Text color: 383838
Link color: 1E6DDE
Sidebar fill color: cdd3de
Sidebar border color: 728EB6
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Winter Sports Pictograms Twitter background
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What’s so intriguing about them, you ask? Well, at least that these ones have backgrounds worth looking at, unlike many other basketball stars. It’s a great thing that fans can stay in touch with their basketball idols but hey – starting a Twitter account is a great and noble move but how about nice background theme? At least to stand out of the crowd.
Of course the examples that you’ll see today are really inspiring but we were a little bit disappointed finding some star accounts with little or no design. Anyways, social media has some design peculiarities and Twitter background thing is not an exception here. We mean that mostly of today’s examples are based on or contain huge photos, some original patterns or exquisite fonts. We have noticed that many NBA stars prefer to leave a lot of free space and use dark background. Of course once again we claim that this type of design is aimed to reflect some personal characteristics of players as it was before with their websites.
Alright, enough of our analysis, let’s get to the designs now! Here they go:
Carmelo Anthony
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Steve Nash
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Do you know where amazing happens? Of course there are many different answers for this question but today we mean NBA and the wonderful forthcoming event called NBA All-Star Game 2010 in Dallas. We thought that it would be quite interesting to make a small research in this field because today web design presents its best in almost any sphere and basketball, being the obsession of millions, is not an exception.
Today’s post contains collection of really inspiring and original website designs of famous players and teams. Here are some web design trends that we thought you guys may want to know. Teams’ websites mostly correspond to all requirements for news websites – they have these slide shows, embedded videos and smooth design that concentrate visitors’ attention on the process of perceiving the information. Chicago Bulls demonstrates a very original approach by putting the bull mascot into the header and New Orleans Hornets intrigues with sophisticated patterns in the background. Anyways, even though we assume the association does have certain requirements for teams’ websites some teams were able to make great designs even being bounded by these limitations.
As for the personal web pages of famous basketball stars… Well, we can tell you for sure that we are proud to present this collection and we didn’t even expect it will be so much inspiring. Of course each player was trying to reflect his own character in his website and mostly they’ve done that pretty damn good. Major trends for these designs are presence of big image of the player; cool music tracks accompaniment (mostly rap music, obviously), video and original social media sections as well as dark backgrounds. And it is really hard to choose who’s got the best design in our collection because all examples are definitely worth to be seen.
Players’ websites
Amare Stoudemire
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Ron Artest
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