Archive for August, 2011
![Who Tops the List of TemplateMonster Best Facebook Fans? [August 2011 Rewards]](http://blog.tmimgcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/top-facebook-fans-august-2011.jpg?9d7bd4 "Who Tops the List of TemplateMonster Best Facebook Fans? [August 2011 Rewards]")
August is coming to its end, which means that today we are awarding our monthly top 10 Facebook fans. The fans’ list is as usually compiled through measuring done via the Booshaka app – a tool that analyzes the fans’ activity on TemplateMonster’s Facebook page and based on the number of thumbs up, posts, and comments rates our fans. So, who are the top August’s fans on TemplateMonster’s Facebook page?
This month the most honorable mention goes to our huge and #1 Facebook fan Oscar Leonardo Serrano Cadena who took the first place with 782 points. Oscar along with our #2 and #3 fans who are Noah Holland and James Hooker receive gift certificates that enable them to choose any template and download it for free. Other people who have been ranked highly on the list are Damon Sson, Will Yoo, and Vinay Mittal – these guys, being #4, #5 and #6 respectively, get a 50% discount and are able to use it for any TemplateMonster order. Also to the fans who took 7, 8, 9, and 10 places we give 40% discounts – our congrats to David Harutyunyan, Guy Drury, Michael Thena, and Koray Tanrısever. We see that you all guys have a stated allegiance to TemplateMonster with more than a passing interest in our website and Facebook fan page. Thank you, friends, for being a part of our affinity group. All of the discount codes and gift codes you have won will be delivered to you within two days via Facebook private messages.
If you feel you should be on our top list, be sure to boost your fans activity on TemplateMonster’s Facebook page and remain stubborn. Fan points will measure your passion for web development and your contributions to the TemplateMonster community – and the bigger the contribution, the bigger the reward. Good luck!
Some time lately TemplateMonster has conducted a special Internet Explorer Versions Survey that was intended to reveal the opinions of our audience concerning the usage of Internet Explorer and the future of this unviable browser.
In the light of an unrolling media campaign that touches the process of dropping support for IE6, our blog team was anxious to hear your thoughts of appropriateness of the measures taken within such IE discredit activities. Therefore, we’ve made a list of the question to examine the numbers of IE unique users and check how popular this software is today. The results are collected, compiled, and presented below – now you’re more than welcome to have a look at them. The total number of respondents reached nearly 1200 people.
What version of Internet Explorer do you use?
IE9 – 56%
IE8 – 34%
IE7 – 7%
IE6 – 2%
Do you plan to update your Internet Explorer version within the next months?
No – 56%
Yes – 43%
Is it critical for you to make sure your own website is compatible with all versions of Internet Explorer, even the oldest ones (ver. 6 and ver. 7)?
No, it’s not – 50%
Yes, it is critical – 46%
What part of your website audience uses IE6 and IE7?
5%-15% – 34%
Less than 5% – 32%
Over 15% – 26%
That is what we have revealed. If to consider that IE (and even its latest version) has lots of compatibility issues unsolved and crowds of tech savvy professionals have ceased supporting IE6 anymore, we can state the fact that there’s a very strong favorability toward using this frankly speaking inadequate browser. Perhaps the most significant conclusion we can make from these survey results is that it is still critical for website owners to have their sites compatible with all versions of IE or otherwise they will simply lose a fair share of audience.
Now we really want to know your impressions – are these the results you expected to see? We were actually dumbfounded discovering them. However, thanks everyone who has took part in this survey, as you helped us make a clear perception of the ongoing.
Today is the last Monday of August and it means that it is the time to present you the fourth freebie that features clean style. The previous three themes were created in attractive minimal style, and we hope that you liked them. The next month will bring you the fresh portion of cool and professionally done stuff, so don’t hesitate to visit us for creative solutions. But wait! Before September comes, welcome the last August theme from our collection of freebies – Free Website Template in Clean Style for Spa Salon!
First of all, let’s pay attention to the clean and clear style of this theme that is created in soft and delicate colors. This color scheme perfectly fits the relaxing mood of the project that deals with spa industry. Simplicity is a good way to attract the attention of your visitors, especially when this approach is accurately used in the design. This theme can be a good starting point for your web presence, and you are welcome to try it. We are also sure that it will be interesting for you to see this free template live demo and check out all its cool characteristics. So, feel free to get this theme and wait for the new autumn freebies!
Free Website Template in Clean Style for Spa Salon:
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 using the link below. To get the full package with PSD source files included visit the TemplateMonster Free Website Template in Clean Style for Spa Salon 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 Website Template in Clean Style for Spa Salon with PSD files (12,2MB)
Download Free Website Template in Clean Style for Spa Salon without PSD (1,31MB)
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.
Today we’d like to offer you our new blog section that will be dedicated to our customers’ testimonials. Once a week we will show you several new testimonials that our thankful and loyal customers sent us to share their great experience and positive emotions with our blog fans.
This week we’d like to show you a video testimonial that was sent by Marcel Vossen who is a content-maker from the Netherlands. He loves our huge collection of beautiful templates that are available at very affordable prices, and what he likes even more is the fact that our ready-made templates save him a lot of time and “a lot of sweat and tears”. Take a look:
Some other our customers were so kind to fill in our testimonial form and sent us their warm words that we enjoyed very much. Here you can see some examples of feed-backs from the customers all over the world:
“Quality of your templates is very professional and easy to customize even in Hebrew. I love your service. I am using Website Templates – CSS Templates a lot! Thank you for your professional ideas and high quality = always. And thank you for a very easy purchasing process!!!”
Jignesh Hirapra
India
“I use Template Monster for all kind of projects, the quality of your templates is very professional and they are easy to customize even in Hebrew. I love your service. I am using Website Templates – CSS Templates a lot! Thank you for the professional ideas and the high quality = always. And thank you for a very easy purchasing process!!!”
Benny
Israel
“The complete purchasing process was very easy (incl. the phone contact for confirmation) and the payment was okay per paypal. The quality of your templates is very professional. I really like your service (as well this call back). The most advantage for me is your large template-portfolio which gives me a lot of good ideas and I know that the quality is always high”.
Roger Behn
Switzerland
“Recently we needed an osCommerce template. After long search on Internet we decided to buy it from TemplateMonster. And we didn’t regret our decision. From the first contact with this company till receiving the template we needed we had a feeling that we were dealing with professionals. The web site is intuitive and user friendly. The payment process including receiving instructions is awesome. And the greatest surprise for us: the osCommerce template was completely easy to integrate. Great job!”
Velimir Sanjkovic
Croatia
“I bought a TM product for a friend of mine. He enjoyed very much, low price, nice art and very easy to integrate with the Word Press engine. Every time that somebody asks me a cheap way to get a website in the air, I suggest buying a TM template.”
Nicolas Faccin Iensen
Brazil
Thank you very much for all kind words and wonderful testimonials!!! We appreciate your attention and gratitude. If you’d like to share your experience being our customer with other our clients you are always welcome – we are happy to read and publish your thought and impressions at our testimonial page.
We’re happy to present another feature we’ve just launched on TemplateMonster – the TemplateMonster instant rebates. The point is that from now on all of our templates preview pages there’s a section where you can hit the special Facebook Like button and get a rebate of $5 to $20 for that. A little message will be posted on your Facebook wall once you hit that button (telling that you’ve just Liked a template on TemplateMonster and got a rebate for that), but we’re sure you wouldn’t mind that for an instant discount, right? You’ll be able to add something to that default message if you’ll want.
We’ve also mentioned that the rebate may vary – from $5 to $20. That depends on the price of a template that you’re interested in. In case it’s a template priced at under $100 the rebate you get for the action is $5. In case it’s a template in a price range of $100 to $200 you get a $10 rebate, and if it’s a template priced at over $200 you get a $20 instant rebate. Pretty simple, as you can see. You can ‘Like’ unlimited number of products that you want to get a rebate for. Now go ahead and browse our products to choose the one you want an instant discount for!
Today is another great day for all fans of Facebook-related templates on TemplateMonster. Here’s what it’s about today – some time ago we’ve launched the first ever Facebook Reveal tab template, this is a sort of a product that is used by Facebook marketing professionals in order to increase the conversion from visitors into fans. The point is that the reveal tab doesn’t show the Facebook page content until the visitor actually hits the like button and becomes a Facebook page fan. Obviously these pages need special design approach in order to emphasize on the main objective – to attract people’s attention towards the Like button and encourage people to press it.
You probably have seen pages that we’re talking about all over Facebook. But you know us – TemplateMonster needs to do better than that and our Facebook reveal tab templates are still special and unique. First of all they’re special for the spectacular HTML5 animation that is included into every single one of them – this is another way of attracting people’s attention.
From what we’ve seen during the release of the first product of this type on TemplateMonster, our audience was very happy to see it. So of course we’ve decided to bring you more of them, and today we’ve added 4 new Facebook Reveal tab templates, feel free to check them out and get one for yourself!
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You think about getting a banner ad designed? Well, you should keep in mind that often the ad banner is the first thing that potential customers see that is associated with your company. So to increase the traffic to your website, raise brand awareness, and generate sales, you need to create and implement banners correctly. This powerful form of advertising could prove to be really useful in this regard.
Generally, banners are small rectangular boxes containing static or animated graphics, usually with textual elements, and appearing on all sorts of web pages. That is a kind of extended link that shares a basic function – it brings up a particular advertiser’s website when a user clicks on a banner. To redirect however is only the half thing; the ad banner should not only take users to the website, it must compel them to buy something. Thus, it’s deceptively simple to design a good banner with effective features. In this post we’ll give you some basic guidelines you should abide by to be the creator of compelling web banners. Keep the following suggestions in mind.
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- Fist of all include a good ad copy, keeping your wording short and concise. Make a strong emphasis on the benefits not features of your product or service, avoid pressure vocabulary but use call to action to urge to viewer to do something. Also try to leave space around the edges and not fill the banner space completely with text, which would only clutter the banner.
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- If you can use words that have been proven to attract people, use them. Besides, don’t forget about visually appealing punch line. Create a small catchy phrase that will make the viewer curious or bring out a smile.
- When it comes to the fonts, choose only one or two fonts for your ad banner design, the fonts have to complement each other. To easily get the right message across to the readers, make sure that the text on the banner is crisp and legible, and if required add color or effect to your text to make it stand out.
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Can you name the most popular eCommerce software on the web? Well, there are plenty of great solutions, and TemplateMonster provides premium eCommerce designs for all of these advanced and famous shopping cart platforms. Prestashop is definitely one of them, we know that some like it more than Magento due to how light-weight and easy to handle Prestashop is. So today we launch a new awesome discount that will cycle through this specific product type – each and every of our 150+ PrestaShop Themes is now available with a 20% discount! These templates are designed just for the area of professional eCommerce, so whether you want a shop to sell a handful of interesting stuff or a whole mountain of various goodies, projects that are based on our PrestaShop designs will generate maximum sales for the store owners.
PrestaShop, being very lightweight, easy to use and modify, beyond all doubt is one of the best open source eCommerce systems available to start your own store with. Now we simply make a good thing even more affordable. The discount is valid for three weeks – starting today until September 13th 2011. Besides, as an extra bonus you’ll also get a whole year of free unlimited hosting package and a free domain registration, all provided by JustHost.com – good friends of TemplateMonster. This will surely help all of the eCommerce startups easier set it all up.
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Select from available templates and customize your PrestaShop online store today. And be sure to share the awesome news about the discount with all of your friends and fellow designers. Now go ahead and browse Prestashop themes now!
We hope that after reading this Monday post, you will get the ideas on how to start your online project that deals with interior designs. A variety of resources can offer you smart tips on how to do it, but we are glad to give you something more – the ready-made solution that can be a great starting point for your online business. As you have guessed, we are speaking about our weekly freebies, and today you are welcome to check out the new one – Free Website Template in Clean Style for Interior Project.
Our designers’ team continues working out August clean style designs, and this time they are effectively presented in the free website template dedicated to interior design business. Applying certain rules of minimal style in our designs, we try our best to create the professional product that corresponds to your business needs. Using this design you can easily communicate your business ideas in the memorable way to your customers. jQuery slider in the header is one more exciting element that we are happy to present you within this template. To find out all its cool characteristics, feel free to check out the free template live demo!
Free Website Template in Clean Style for Interior Project:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template in Clean Style for Interior Project 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 Website Template in Clean Style for Interior Project with PSD files (45,7MB)
Download Free Website Template in Clean Style for Interior Project without PSD (1,69MB)
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.
The books that are included in this thorough and well-integrated list are related to improving the usability of web projects with the goal of optimizing the users’ experience. They provide readers with practical and effective insights on how to become a human factor professional and address in detail the questions of how to create user-oriented designs, conduct usability tests, and many more. These well-known books are recommended by experts and all have significance to usability principles. Take time to check out these usability books, you are sure to get a lasting benefit out of reading them.
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Usability Engineering
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy
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