Archive for February, 2011
Your online project plays a role when it goes about the delivering functional products or services to your customers. Its main objective is to push forward the interest to your business and bring you the desired attention of the visitors and, of course, new customers. The first step that should be done is finding the right direction of the design concept and choosing the best variant of it. This process is a little bit complicated, ‘cause it demands the efforts of several people who will work out the business strategy, the design concept and develop the functionality of the future site. Today we offer you the ready-made solution for your online project that deals with the business sphere – Free Business Website Template. That’s the idea that will help you to start the desired web presence in no time and make it successful. Try it yourself, and feel free to see a live demo of this free business website template!
Free Business 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 Business 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 Business Website Template with PSD files (18,2MB)
Download Free Business Website Template without PSD (506KB)
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.
Need professional solutions for your online business? Choose Business Web Templates and Business Flash Templates from TemplateMonster.com!
Being a real headache for the website developers, the cross browser testing is in fact not that much of a painful procedure nowadays because you can find a bunch of efficient and comfortable-to-use online tools to help you in that. Testing is vitally important for any website and you should never ignore it, especially if it’s a serious website you’re planning that will have a lot of traffic from different audience. Otherwise, for example if that’s a website for developers, you may be sure you won’t need your website to be very much compatible with IE6, while a news website does have to be compatible even with the oldest versions of crappiest browers.
Testing helps you to predict problems that might occur in the nearest future, if they do occur while your visitors are browsing the best case scenario is that the irritated users will assault your wishbox with angry complaints about bugs and broken codes, worst case is they’ll just quietly give it up and won’t come back to your website. So, you’ll agree that testing saves your time and even might save your website/business project from the fatal disaster. Below you’ll find some useful and advanced online tools that would ease the testing processes and will help you to be sure that your website is compatible with all popular web browsers.
1. Browsershots
This online tool provides you with screen shots of your web page from just about any browser from all of the common operating systems. You have to submit your URL and wait in the queue till you receive results. You can use paid option and skip the queue line for instant results.
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2. CrossBrowserTesting
Another awesome online tool that helps you to test your website. Just pick an OS, select browser and start testing. Free trial is available, also you can purchase a monthly subscription for this service.
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We’re happy to announce that TemplateMonster starts producing the brand new Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries 2.0 which are an updated version of a well-known and popular TemplateMonster product, which are now based on a totally new technology and come with an advanced power-packed set of options.
Being an easy and powerful tool for setting up and running a gallery of images on your Flash website, this new product line has resulted in much improved functionality and enhanced interface. Now we create more lightweight Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0 Templates using the newest Flash technologies of the industry. Our Flash photo galleries are coming with a full-fledge CMS inside basing on the powerful Flash content management system that we’re sure you know about by now – Moto CMS. So you don’t need any additional software to set up and run an awesome gallery of images on your Flash website.
Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries 2.0 are absolutely easy to configure and can be quickly customized for specific needs of any customer even by a non-tech person. Other awesome features of our new high-end Dynamic Flash Galleries 2.0 include:
- fully editable intuitive design;
- rich customization options;
- WISIWIG editor;
- professional image editor;
- the ability to create splendid slideshows;
- rich media library and preload option;
- custom fonts upload;
- powerful SEO tools;
- and a lot of other tasty features.
As every Dynamic Flash Gallery 2.0 focuses on the really impressive layout and usability, it is a perfect option for web design companies, art and photography web sources and all the image stores web projects. You just add your images and make further customization leaving out all the technical routine. Please feel free to browse our new collection of Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0 Templates, there’s a variety of styles and layouts that you’ll be happy to see. For more detailed information on our new product line, see Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries 2.0 presentation.
The “Call-to-action” buttons are one of the most essential designer’s tools in the tricky game of hunting for higher conversion rates. If you want to create a smart design, don’t forget to prioritize tasks that must compel your design. And one of the most important tasks will be soliciting your visitors to do something that you want them to do (whether it is buying something, adding a product to cart, signing up or learning more). Today we want to dig a little deeper into what the important factors and techniques are, to help you create attractive designs that would be powerful marketing tools at your website.
Color
It is vitally important to highlight your buttons by using bright colors and contrast. It would be better to use really deep and rich colors that would dazzle your visitors with their shine. Contrast will help you separate your button from other elements on the page, so you shouldn’t share your button’s design with something else on the page.
Plus, you may want to check out a little colors in eCommerce research done by our good friends from Templates.com blog, it will help you choose proper colors based on what particular action you want a user to take.
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Size
Proportion and balance are the keys to your success because your button must be visible on the page, though you should be aware of over sizing. You should know that the button’s size depends on its importance over all other elements on the page. Usually buttons have the highest priority over other functional elements.
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As you might be aware of, Joomla has released a new version of its popular content management software – this dynamic portal engine has been finally advanced to Joomla 1.6, on January 11th 2011. From the official Joomla 1.6 release announcement the company has unveiled the range of new functions and features the new version delivers to designers, developers, admins and webmasters, as well as about manifold style improvements Joomla has undergone.
So what’s new in Joomla 1.6?
- new admin, template choices: Joomla 1.6 offers a whole new look at the Administrator Interface with some new templates that extend the Joomla! system;
- template styles: Joomla 1.6 offers a whole new world of versatility by allowing webmasters to create template styles. Basically, you can easily clone your template to apply custom changes or edits to it, and then assign it to specific menu items to create unique pages;
- core layout files are tableless: new for Joomla 1.6, all core output files are written in XHTML 1.0 Strict. HTML 5 is also supported in Joomla 1.6;
- codemirror editor: finally, there’s a color-coded editor for easier HTML and CSS editing in Joomla;
- media manager improvements: the Flash-based media uploader brings the ability for users to upload multiple files at one time. You can also upload multiple images at once to the Media Manager.
- SEO features: meta-keywords and meta-descriptions can be assigned to articles, categories, and menu items, and you can easily add a site name to the HTML page title;
- new package installation capability: developers can now pack their components allowing users to install one file and include multiple extensions all at the same time;
- easily included language capabilities: with Joomla 1.6′s new language structure, developers are allowed to include additional language packages right with their extensions;
- integrated ACL capability: the development team has made it very easy to include advanced ACL features inside of any 3rd party component. With just a few code changes your component can allow your users to take advantage of the revolutionary ACL structure for their users;
- upgraded system requirements: the new operating requirements for Joomla 1.6 (particularly PHP 5.2) offers developers a great advantage by allowing them to take advantage of object-oriented programming and functionality;
- nested categories: with infinite layers of categories, creating a representation of your site map in Joomla! is a breeze;
- easy extension updates: you can easily update those extensions from within Joomla, without visiting dozens of extension developer’s websites, in Joomla 1.6;
- new plugin format: with the release of Joomla 1.6, plugins now have the same common structure as components and modules;
- consistent component programming: Joomla 1.6 provides a new and cohesive method for building components;
- for more principal changes introduced in Joomla 1.6, you may read the information offered by the Joomla Documentation.
Guidelines in upgrading your Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.6
It is a notorious fact that effective ready-made solutions for your online project are not easy to find. It takes your time and, unfortunately, it is not usually rewarding. You can also face the problem that the solution that you have found doesn’t correspond to your needs or doesn’t support the main idea of your online business. The main goal of our weekly series is to share with you the professionally done freebies which you will hopefully find useful and valuable. Today it is Free Science Website Template created by our team of creative designers. It suits perfectly for any kind of a science project website, a lab website, or even a high school project report website. We hope that this free website template will help you to solve the design problems and start the effective online project.
Free Science 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 Science 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 as a template.
Download Free Science Website Template with PSD files (6,43MB)
Download Free Science Website Template without PSD (470KB)
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.
More Science Web Templates and Science Flash Templates find at TemplateMonster.com!
This one starts with a news that’s sort of a bad news. We’ve decided to stop a Facebook feedback promo a couple of days earlier than planned, because of a substantial amount of spam messages from India and comments from Russian guys informing people on how they can steal stuff and commit crimes. It’s a shame that such a great discussion was ruined by a bunch of kids who didn’t have any better things to do.
But let’s look at the bright side – the winners will receive their prizes earlier than expected. Basically, their weekends will start with good news about the freebie they’re receiving from us. Since there was around 140 comments on that feed, we’ll just consider there was 150 of them which means we’re giving away 3 free templates, 8 50% discounts and 15 30% discounts. Today we’ll deliver all of the prizes. The free templates go to Jeremy Mayhew, Anton Permadi and Lisa Westhafer. Here’s what their feeback was:
I’m mostly a web developer, so design is not my thing. I need to work quick because more clients means more income, and when you’re a self employed single father of two you need to do more with less time. Your templates are so unique and well put together can easily customize them for my clients. Template monster allows me to do more for my clients, and happy clients means better business for the little guy.
I think of all the designs that you have the most remarkable is the facebook template. Unique, stylish, eyecatching, and outstanding. I hope it can be developed toward face’COMMERCE’book templates that supports the online store, i’m very sure it will be more useful for business people like me and others of course.
Template Monster was the first website template site I had discovered when creating my first business website years ago. Now, as an Entrepreneur with several businesses/websites and a Marketing Consultant to Digital Advertising Agencies, I’ve used Template Monster over the years for everything from inspiration, to development tools, to referrals to outside Vendors. I’ve recommended Template Monster to numerous clients – thank you for making me look fantastic as an advisor by passing along your creativity and value!
Thanks again everyone! See you on our next Facebook promos!
Our massive WordPress 20% Discount Promo is almost over. That means it’s almost your last chance to take advantage of a fantastic 20% discount and be gratefully rewarded for the purchases of our fascinating WordPress Themes.
These designs have not only premium layouts that you’ll certainly love, but also the awesome functionality. Built to fully utilize the extended capabilities of WordPress blogging platform, the WordPress Theme we offer introduces a set of useful features. The latest themes made for WordPress 3.x version even feature deep content linking and plugings/widgets included, to make your WordPress website extremely easy to manage even in its smallest elements.
Speaking of the WordPress templates featured below, we’ve compiled this variety to show you the most interesting and multifarious WordPress layout solutions that utilize prominent design trends. Our team of expert designers has developed these solid layouts to make a tedious process of site building easy for you. Along with blog designs that are totally essential on the internet today, we also develop WordPress themes for web galleries, design studios, professional architecture studios, and other kinds of businesses. In here, we may see bold and contrasting design choices which however do not make the layout feel any cluttered. Besides, there’s a wide variety of minimal designs that focus on awesomely rendered lapidary style. With just enough variety of WordPress designs you are sure to find the best one for your website! The only thing left is to hurry up and take advantage of a marvelous 20% discount – and better do it sooner as in a day our promo is over!
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Hey all – are you in the mood for something positively different? We’re used to see vertical websites with fixed width and variable height, depending on the length of the content available within the main layer. Today’s round up highlights horizontal websites being a great new way to create unique web experiences. Current examples don’t make you scroll up and down, but flip things around and use horizontal scroll bar or horizontal scrolling.
When it comes to usability of horizontal scrolling websites, they’re not universally embraced by the web design community. Such designs seem to be non intuitive and inconvenient to use compared to conventionally styled vertical sites. However, horizontal types of web pages work superbly well with portfolios or photo galleries due to being enormous and panoramic for images. They are just ideal to bring across quirky, bold messages that will create an impact to the visitors, at the same time keeping the writing to a minimum. This technique is employed by a bunch of the websites – see most interesting compiled below:
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jQuery being an awesome light-weight solution for virtually any kind of website functionality, continues surprising with its unique capabilities for simplifying the life of web developers and web users. There are tons of various solutions provided by this efficient and versatile tool. Also, we are sure that thousands of times you have seen various tag clouds, though may have never thought how difficult it is to develop a light-weight, visually appealing and reliable solution for this small website feature. Tag cloud helps your visitors to easily browse through the main topics of your website, which is very useful for your website’s reputation – not to mention the SEO effect of it. Today’s 7 tag cloud solutions demonstrate us the power of jQuery mixed up with the beauty of CSS. In this collection we have presented detailed tutorials with downloadable source codes as well as simple jQuery plugins that are also quite easy to integrate.
1. jQuery Tag Cloud
This magnificent tutorial tells us how to build a basic tag cloud which retrieves the tags to display as part of an AJAX request directly after page load. As you can see you’ll get a very attractive and tiny widget that can be easily integrated to any design.
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2. 3D Tag Sphere
Eye-catching 3D tag cloud would enliven your design with dynamics. You can easily control tags with the mouse. Tags are scaled according to the weight assigned to them and fade into the background as they rotate.
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