Archive for September, 2010
Good call-to-action social media icons are now that something that every single blog must have to give the site visitors a possibility to easily bookmark and share content on popular social networking platforms. Today we’ve taken the time to put together what we believe are the most well-crafted free social media icon sets out there. Although initially intended to be widely used in web blogs, these social networking icons can be seamlessly integrated in almost any project online. Still upon embedding social links in your next project, please consider carefully the icons positioning, style, size, and color, and make sure you’ve got a social networking section that is easy to find and nice-looking. In this round-up you are free to find professionally created and beautiful free icon set solutions, please have a look.
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A Free Sophisticated Premium Peel Over Icon Set
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Free and Exclusive Icons: Brown Social Icon Pack
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Other than using the trite web design trends for online portfolios, designers currently manage to contrive the popular mainstream techniques that help develop mind blowing web galleries. In this collection we’ve gathered up some great examples of Flash photo galleries and non-Flash solutions that showcase the different ways designers choose to develop their online portfolios and galleries. Some galleries use a minimal layout to exhibit a clean and crisp photo variety; others may be a bit more sleek and flashy using interactive interfaces, sliders, lightboxes, modern slideshows, etc. There is an unlimited amount of options and ways to showcase a spectacular gallery online. Some of the widely distributed and apt ones are listed down for you below.
There are a lot of design trends here and it may be difficult for you to navigate between them. Please feel free to use the links below for easier navigation.
- Minimal Style
- Scattered Photos
- Image Based Navigation
- Gallery in Multiple Vertical Lines
- Grid Based Designs
- Horizontal Image Content Slider
- Grungy Look
- Interactive 3D Interfaces
- Photos Behind the Typography
- Large Image Backgrounds
- Carousel Photo Gallery
- Horizontal or Vertical Navigation Overlay
- Down Scrolling
- Center-Focused Layouts
- Modal or Light Boxes
Web designers today prefer the simplicity and the ease of view to rather complex and busy layouts. Therefore, we may often spot simple and clean concepts in portfolio websites that selectively use images and incorporate a lot of white space to create a minimalist feel. Plus, such designs do not overwhelm the user with too many unnecessary elements that is a way efficient for multimedia presentation.
Equilibrium
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Aditu.de
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This year is marked with the special event – 200th anniversary of the first Oktoberfest that was held in Germany. Wonderful festivals with amusing entertainment, amazing parades, excited crowd of people in traditional costumes and, of course, beer tasting make this day one of the most favorite holidays of the year. This event is a pretty nice chance to present you this Free Beer Website Template that can help you to make most of your Oktoberfest, ‘cause using this theme you can start your own project that deals with beer and share your passion for this product with other likeminded people. Enjoy every day of the year and make your life bright! Try this free website template and start your online business successfully!
Welcome Free Beer Website Template!
As you remember, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. If you need only HTML source files, download them from this post (just click on the image above and save the ZIP file). To get the full package with PSD source files included visit the TemplateMonster free website template download page and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (make sure to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you are not allowed to resell it. Enjoy!
Download free beer template with PSD files (20,8 MB)
Download free beer website template without PSD (1,45 MB)
What do the happy buyers of our products think of TemplateMonster? We’ll let our customers speak for themselves! The following is a feedback sent from our satisfied client whose name is Steve Barth. He is graphics and web designer from California who confirms that TemplateMonster is a great find for any web developer. So don’t just take our word for the products we carry, listen to what our customers have to say about TemplateMonster templates and customer service.
Many thanks to Steve, and cheers from TemplateMonster! Well in fact, we are very grateful for the support of our loyal customers who continue to spread the good word about us. All the responses we receive motivate us to keep working hard for you. Basically, it is our top priority to raise the customer care level to the highest point.
If you would like to send us a video testimonial, please take a look at our Video Testimonials Info Page to read in details about the tips and instructions on how to record and deliver video files to us. Your feedbacks are always welcome! Plus, it’ll give you a perfect chance to get a 50% discount for any order from us. Go ahead – try all our benefits and send us your feedback!
Grungy web design look appears to rapidly gain on popularity now, but it is still having its hot opponents which blame for a certain slatternliness of this style. To shatter the myth of grunge style as being sloppy and unappealing, today we’ll have a good look at this design trend. Basically, it is typical for grunge to illustrate the textured and gritty backgrounds, irregular or crooked visual elements, torn edges, faded graphic designs. This stylish design trend gives uneven and less structured forms that are being widely adopted from urban surroundings and industrial scenery mainly to contrast that sleek and glossy web 2.0 style, which maintains very straight lines along with the overall polished and clean cut layouts. Grunge devotees, in their turn, have ventured away from this mainstream opting rather for a bit of a smeared and dirty look.
Now, we’ll dwell solely on the grungy eCommerce designs that have been adding the fuzzy, distorted design elements to give the design its spunk. They use a deliberately untidy and uncoordinated style and do that damn well to showcase exactly what their online shop is all about. Mainly, we can come upon t-shirt stores, music, sport, shoes, and apparel shops – all perfectly utilizing the grunge to give off just the right amount of personality and keep the proper intentions for their eCommerce sites nice, clear, and focused. Let’s now explore how far they can take this awesome style in their designs.
Seventrees.ca
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Momandpopcorn.com
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Do you guys know that TemplateMonster initiates a brand new Flash Survey? Basically, this little public inquiry is more than compiling a group of questions and soliciting users’ feedback. With its help, we would like to define the strategic ways of further Flash development and resolve some disputable issues related to Flash software. The results of our new Flash survey will provide actionable data that will help us find out what the future of Flash will be in the context of our product range. With that said, we welcome you our audience to complete this short poll, so please be sure to take a good look at it and let us know your opinion.
By the way, our Flash survey has got an additional media support on the part of Smashing Magazine, FlashMoto, Graphic Mania, 10Steps, and more partners whose audience is as well curious of an outcome if taken on this activity. Get involved guys – we’ll highly appreciate your participation.
Though there’s a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an’ awesome way. Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it’s possible to find the appropriate font that’s free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. Many great designers are now offering professional quality fonts completely for free.
Today’s round-up actually goes outside the standard font variety. We’ve managed to gather a collection of 50 novelty styled free fonts which you can instantly download and use to add a powerful impact for your designs. These typefaces are absolutely free for your personal use, and when applied properly, will make a very beautiful touch on any kind of print or web media design. Go ahead and pick up your favorites, but be sure to make a correct font choice!
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VAL
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Geomancy
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Well, from now on TemplateMonster will collaborate with Fleelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace for small businesses. The main idea under this strategic alliance is to provide the manifold TemplateMonster products to the massive workforce of over 1.8 million professionals on Freelancer.com.
Through their official marketplace – Freemarket.com – TemplateMonster will now offer variety of its premium templates to the crowds of employers and freelancers. Small business will thereby be able to simply select an appropriate template from a broad range of TemplateMonster designs and have a freelancer to customize it, instead of creating a website from scratch. At the same time, there is a perfect chance for freelancers that are also able to suggest certain templates while placing their bids in there. What’s also important is that employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, accounting and legal services. The remarkable fact is that an average price for custom services there is under $200, which makes Freelancer.com extremely cost effective for small business.
TemplateMonster looks forward to a successful and mutually beneficial partnership with Freelancer.com. Plus, we’re also happy to make our many valued customers aware of this fine service.
We should share our kindness wherever possible, escape the alien world of hostility and repay other people for their goodness. Our children should be brought up in the environment where the idea of honesty is not abruptly replaced with the false one. The trusting soul of a child should be free to find the kindness in the eyes of parents. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what your social status and gender is, you can always help people around you, especially children. Today we launch this Free Charity Website Template that can be a good start for your charity project. You can make somebody’s life better and we’ll try to help you with this noble mission. Make the world better!
Free Charity Website Template:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Just click on the image above and download HTML source files from this post. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Charity Website Template download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template. Share your kindness with Free Charity Website Template!
Download free charity template with PSD files (7,95 MB)
Download free charity website template without PSD (454KB)
Have you noticed how often the new discount promos started to appear at TemplateMonster? Well, even if you haven’t, we’re pretty sure you will notice it within the next weeks. The newest promo we have for you is a huge 40% discount on Flash Photo gallery templates. For those of you that for some reason don’t know what this product is about – it’s our in-house development oriented at photographers and artists, feel free to see an awesome video presentation of this product. The idea behind Flash photo galleries is to enable them to launch their galleries and portfolios online and do that in a very spectacular way.
As a matter of fact, launching Flash photo galleries back in 2007 was our first attempt of having a Flash CMS product available on our website. Then luckily the FlashMoto templates arrived in 2009 and they’ve become a versatile Flash CMS solution suitable for any kind of website, not only a gallery. But even so Flash photo galleries remain popular among our photographer audience being a premium niche product.
With Flash photo galleries site owners have a bunch of neat tools that are absolutely essential for running a successful online gallery. Such as for example adding comments to the images and setting preview details (width, height, spacing etc.) and managing the images online (crop tool, flip, rotate and resize). Nice, isn’t it?
Well, alright now, go ahead and browse those Flash photo gallery templates. But make it quick, the discount will only last during 10 days and will expire on September 30th 2010.
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