Archive for December, 2010
Well what a wonderful year that was! In the meantime, as 2010 is coming to a close, we’d like to take the moment to wish you happy holidays – may the joy of this fabulous season remain with you for a long time. What’s more, for those who are looking to get into the festive mood virtually, TemplateMonster’s and TemplateTuning’s executives have some holiday appeals to share:
It’s a fascinating time of the year! Here at TemplateMonster, we’d like to wish our customers a very merry holidays and also sincerely want to express our gratitude to every one of you who have been staying with us the whole year round! We deliver our high-quality products to help you, our customers, keep your web business up and running. But we could not do this without your encouragement and most importantly your loyal support. From our entire ever-growing family here at TemplateMonster to all of you – peace and love! Make 2011 the best year ever!
– David Braun
CEO, TemplateMonster.com
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Dear TM Customers! Another year is almost over and I just wanted to say “Thank You!” for using our templates and staying loyal to our team. All of us have been working really hard in order to present you the best designs and the best services you deserve. And I truly hope that we will continue our cooperation in a New 2011 Year, as It’s been a pleasure working with you this past year… A Peaceful Christmas and A Happy and Prosperous New Year to you!
– Allan Brill
CEO, TemplateTuning.com
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Once again Merry Christmas to all our friends, followers, and clients – we love you and hope you have wonderful, full of laughs holidays with your loved ones! We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year!
An amazing world of blogging keeps on uncovering the new weblog designs every day. Having coming across new ones that are exclusively creative and deserve a second look, now we’d like to provide our readers with this fresh portion of tasty designs. Though following the common old rule and pumping content as a king, the blogs to be featured today gradually change this trend and put a heavy emphasis on the interface design. Just take a closer look at their headers, footers, comment-areas, or the overall site structure and further site elements – all the usual design approaches are vanished without a trace. We see a solid visual structure and a profound hierarchy of the elements and this all is considerably different from what we’re accustomed to see in a common blog design.
None of these blog designs looks like a typical blog. If analyzing what drew us exactly to each design, we’ve selected them for their attention for small unique details and uncommon graphics. Apart from ease scanning and clear navigation, color matching, appropriate font size and paragraph alignment, these blogs are so much fun visually, probably thanks to the innovative sliding panels, some interactive and fairly unique post styles, and a ton of uncommon effects they utilize. All these excellent choices tie everything together beautifully, so better scroll down and see it yourself – here goes the showcase actually:
Chrischeeseman.com
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R.fm
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Music is in the air and it means that we have another post from our free fonts series. As you may have guessed we compiled a collection of free fonts that would be a real treasure for all music fans (or designers that need to use famous fonts in their works). We all know that feeling when you want to have that font from the Nirvana album cover or AC/DC styled fonts on your blog. And we also know that music is one of the best sources of inspiration for many designers and developers. So given all that we thought these design freebies come in very handy for you guys. We would like to wish you Happy New Year and don’t forget to listen to your favorite music, be creative and seek the inspiration even in the everyday routine.
1. The Beatles
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2. Yellow Submarine
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Time has come to sum up the results of an awesome Christmas Lottery that was recently held at TemplateMonster. Now, we’re extremely happy to announce that Stephen Magin from France, our loyal customer since a distant year of 2003, is the winner of TemplateMonster Christmas Lottery and that Amazon Kindle is all his now! Here’s what Stephen has to say about TemplateMonster and our 2010 Christmas Promo:
I love TemplateMonster and I use it since 2003!! You have the best collection of templates (nice, excellent quality, easy to install or integrate).
Additionally, Stephen was kind enough to give us an example of TemplateMonster’s template he has integrated on one of his eCommerce sites.
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What’s even more, we’ve already given away a bunch of fascinating Christmas goodies including five gift certificates (that means any template for free) and ten 50% discounts from TemplateMonster. Make sure, all the presents and freebies have found their luckiest owners.
For all the rest we still hold a nice 20% discount on each and every snow white website design from our brand new White Templates category. Until January 1st 2011, you may get any product from this new category 20% off! Besides, you may keep claiming your free copy of “Professional Web Design” eBook – Flash CMS Templates Smashing Promo is still active! So go ahead and purchase one of our top-quality Flash CMS Templates and the awesome Smashing eBook will be included into your download package.
Thank you again, our beloved audience, for being with TemplateMonster and for taking part in our lottery. Happy holidays!
Glad to meet you again, guys! We are sure that you have found our previous freebie useful and have created a good website on its basis. What are you going to do next? We can offer you a bit of inspiration and we hope that you’ll like it. So, welcome our new freebie – Free Real Estate Website Template.
Whether you are going to start the new one or renovate the existing project, this template will be helpful for you. If you are going to bring your ideas into reality, there is no need to hesitate and wait for another good opportunity. Feel free to download this theme just now. Try this Free Real Estate Website Template and start something special!
Free Real Estate Website Template:
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
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 Real Estate 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.
Download Free Real Estate Website Template with PSD files (15,3MB)
Download Free Real Estate Website Template without PSD (756KB)
Don’t forget to browse the whole collection of Real Estate Web Templates and Real Estate Flash Templates at TemplateMonster.com.
The social media world was one of the pioneers that have conquered the illusive and mythic mobile web. Nowadays updating your Twitter status or Facebook wall using mobile device is a daily thing and there’s nothing sensational about it as it was a couple of years ago. Many users have faced the software issues because sometimes you just can’t find a good application that will meet your requirements and satisfy your needs, but you know as they say – “seek, and ye shall find”.
Taking into consideration the latest accomplishments of Android powered devices and their rapid growth on the global market we’ve decided to kill two birds with one stone and have gathered the best social media applications of the most popular social networks, and you can install them all at your Android phone for free. Most of these are official applications so you shouldn’t worry about their quality because all these social networks have earned perfect reputation among the web community and do care about their presence in the mobile web. Anyways we sincerely hope that new year of 2011 will bring us more awesome applications and other goodies to melt the hearts of geeks!
1. DiggDroid
Stay up to date with the latest news and interesting stories from the media giant Digg.com. Expand your mobile experience together with DiggDroid application.
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2. TweetDeck
TweetDeck is an application that helps you stay in touch with the latest updates from Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Buzz. It fully synchronizes with you TweetDeck account so you won’t have to go through registrations on your mobile version, just login with your TweetDeck account. You should also know that TweetDeck requires a Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare or Buzz account.
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According to the history of design, the first color theory principles appeared in the works of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490). So, we must be thankful to these two men for attempts to standardize the color knowledge. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then and now we are talking about color theory in terms of web design sphere. It is interesting to know that historically the three primary colors were red, yellow and blue (RYB), though modern generations are considering the red, green and blue (RGB) to be the three primary colors. It becomes more and more obvious that colors manipulate our minds by playing with our perception via monitors, screens, billboards and other visual media sources that are flooding our world of growing high technologies more with each coming year.
Concerning the role of color theory in web design it would be reasonable to notice a huge importance of the smart color usage against the background of the major cultural, psychological sensitivity of any design elements on your website. Web has broken the geographical limits of the world and now your website can be visited by any person from any country of the Earth. And if you want to succeed in your marketing efforts – don’t underestimate the color theory because it is a mighty marketing and design weapon. In our today’s post you’ll find a mix of original and valuable articles concerning colors in web design history and of course a bunch of online resources and tools that will help you pick the right color for your new project.
If to touch the topic of rainbow colors, we advise you to check out the post covering 50 color-wheel web designs (including TemplateMonster’s templates) that use certain rainbow colors heavily in their layouts.
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1. 7 Deadly Sins Represented with Web Design Colors
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2. Colors in Web Design: Choosing a right combination for your Website
Well, now to mark the arrival of the Christmas season TemplateMonster brings more festive attractions to its web audience and unveils a new promo that starting December 21st 2010 and up until January 1st 2011 will ensure 20% discount on each and every snow white website design from our brand new White Templates category. As you may see, those white themes from our richest collection combine clean backgrounds, subtle color-schemes, well-spaced typography, and tasteful detail-rich design touches to lend an uncluttered and clear aspect to your future website and create an easy to navigate, usable interfaces. Fitting a lot of web content into a simple clean design, our White Templates are for sure the easiest way to make an effective overhaul of your website adding at the same time to the comfort of the visitors, while clean white background, being fully integrated into all parts of the design, make everything very readable and simple to be perceived.
Go ahead and create your very consistent visual experience that will push the beautifully spaced content forward in the users eye. White Website Templates with their clean edges just captivate any user to their smooth layout blending well with white background. Don’t hesitate to choose a nicely white spaced look – fresh and classy White Templates with their incredible attention to details will create a great overall feel for your visitors.
Before we start, let me ask you several questions. What phase of creating your web presence are you in currently? Do you expect good results or not? If you have just started, let me offer you a Free Politics Website Template, the ready-made solution that is oriented at creating the website for your successful online political activity.
Before your project is started, its design concept should be worked out carefully, otherwise it will lack effectiveness and professionalism. Feel free to use this free website template to achieve positive results and create the desired web presence. Now you know what should be done to express your ideas effectively. If you still have any doubts, check out this template that speaks for itself.
Free Politics Website Template:
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
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 Politics 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.
Download Free Politics Website Template with PSD files (11,2MB)
Download Free Politics Website Template without PSD (726KB)
Want to get a good choice of Politics Web Templates and Politics Flash Templates? Find them at TemplateMonster.com!
Alright, the time has come to unveil our next awesome Christmas goodie – today it’s going to be a brand new Christmas motion backgrounds pack that has been just added to VideoSmash and that is already available to TemplateMonster customers at half price (which is a price as low as $25 instead of a $50 full price at VideoSmash). The terms are pretty much the same with every other offer from VideoSmash you might have seen in the past – you have to purchase any product at TemplateMonster and while you will be doing that, the VideoSmash offer will be displayed in your shopping cart. If you press the “Add to order” button next to this offer there, the pack will be added to our shopping cart and you’ll be able to pay for it and the template you were initially buying in one transaction. Simple as that!
Now go ahead and take a look at the backgrounds we’re offering:
The pack features 20 Christmas video backgrounds, and every single Christmas video background from this pack comes with fascinating musical accompaniment. Christmas video effects are available in real HD quality (720p) with a framerate 29.27 fps, and all of the video effects from Christmas Animated Backgrounds Pack were created using the QuickTime JPEG Codec. So the product is worth it as you can see – now go ahead and browse our products to take advantage of this offer!
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