Archive for October, 2011
Add a creative touch to the site of your design studio! Right now you are welcome to pick up the new cool freebie for your online design project – Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio. It’s high time to go and get the last one of September themes that feature effective slideshows/sliders in their headers.
The theme presented here will be useful both for those who are going to start their online project, or just want to renovate the existing one. This free website template will jazz up your web presence and present your business idea in the effective and memorable way to your customers. Stylish design in contrasting colors and the visually-arresting layout along with the professional execution make this theme ideal for your design purposes. The cool slider in its header is created by TemplateMonster’s team and you’re absolutely free to keep it. Before you start working with the theme, click through to the free template live demo page to see it in full size, quality and with all features integrated in it. Create your project that will speak best to your visitors!
Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio:
Feel free to 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 with Slider for Design Studio 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 with Slider for Design Studio with PSD files (18,4 MB)
Download Free Website Template with Slider for Design Studio without PSD (1,14 MB)
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 invasion of minimal style in web design has caused an uneven situation when minimal design has been glorified from each corner of the web. Young designers consider working with the clean style/minimal designs to be the only ultimate approach, what we want to say with today’s post is that the world is bigger than just that and that in a lot of cases cluttered/magazine-style designs can also look great. So the big point is that this style we’re talking about today is widely used by many respected web projects, but it’s quite underrated by the web design community. This is a cluttered, piled style which is presented by mostly online magazines and news agencies websites. We’ve tried to collect some original examples of cluttered designs in this little showcase and we strongly believe these examples will prove our point. When you need to deliver tons of information from the home page to your visitors there is no place for minimal solution because you must use every single pixel very wisely and prudently.
For those skeptic people that adore minimal style we want to demonstrate the aesthetics of the well-designed websites with good usability and tons of various items on a single page. It is a very difficult task to create such websites because you must keep the right ratio in putting together many various items and implementing design elements at the same time. The examples below prove that cluttered designs have their own unique charm and we hope you’ll take all the best features from these to use them in your work.
Cosmopolitan
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Spacecollective
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What we have for you today is a compilation of real-life Facebook reveal tab designs with unparalleled styles. The reveal tab tactic is now widely adopted to offer exclusive, fans-only content. People see it as a way to get more likes on their Facebook fan pages and offer something special to loyal customers. Cause after a person hits the Like button, the reveal tab disappears and main exclusive content appears. In other words, Facebook reveal tab is the initial tab (or landing/welcome page) new visitors to your page land on. And only official fan can see it turning into different content that is available to fans only. Clever trick to increase the fan base! Well… Now you can browse the most creative designs of the reveal tabs we’ve found on Facebook. If you want to have the similar trick and hide content from non-fans, consider our newly-crafted HTML5 Facebook Reveal Tab Templates that have been renewed for extended features.
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MTV India
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REI
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jQuery with its great features can be a great usability enhancement for an eCommerce Magento site, as it can improve the customer experience by introducing dynamic interactive elements. The layout of Magento website, being enhanced with jQuery content sliders or image galleries, creates a great deal of sense of attraction to site visitors. They will see all the information that appears at the top of your homepage as the content will be in constant rotation or displayed in a very modular and tidy way. Our blog team has already reviewed designs like this before and if you want to see them check out 20 Magento Themes with Extra jQuery Features. These attractive designs will make the browsing experience of every visitor of your website really enjoyable. Now you can also see the list of fresh Magento templates that give us all the standard theme features and are delivered with various jQuery plugins. You can find the full assortment of such designs seeing all Magento themes with jQuery elements.
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Dress Store Magento Theme
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Flooring Online Store Magento Theme
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A web form is an entrance, a phase transition from sheer interest to turning into an actual customer. Therefore, it is reasonable to make the form design inviting and user-friendly. The process of filling out a form should be as easy as putting two and two together, since people to who face some issues and get failures more likely associate it with your brand. And your reputation instantly looses its balance. So believe it or not, but one tiny form can mess up your brand reputation. You don’t want that, do you?
How to avoid such a fail? First of all you are to remember that any form is a business card of your brand, a face of your company. It is the very first step in your interaction with your potential clients, and it should look easy, warm and inviting.
20 Tips To Make Forms Rock!
Today we are offering you some tips to help avoid the epic fails and unconveniences associated with your web forms.
- Make forms visible and easy-accessible. Don’t hide them.
- Make them short – ask for essential info only. Avoid asking for unnecessary information not to distract the customers. Get the ball rolling with the really important data you need to know to get messages from clients or sign them up. You may ask something like “How did you know about our company?” on further stages.
- Make up a status bar to set clear expectations. People want to know how much time it’s going to take them to complete the form, and a progress bar would be a great advantage in this case. At least display the info like “Step 1 of 3″, but the best thing would be to keep it short enough to be at one little form.
If you want to get more out of your online project, you have to start with its professionally done design. It’s not a problem for mature designers to work out the effective design, but even they have dull days that lack for inspiration. And again, it’s not a problem, ‘cause you can always find something catchy among our cool freebies. Let’s see what we have for you today – Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business.
This theme provides you with the whole set of all useful features that are needed for creating the visually-appealing and user-friendly online project. The only thing you have to do is to customize it according to the business needs of your project. It will not take you a lot of time, because this ready-made free website template offers you everything you need under one package. So, you get catchy layout with accordion effect in the header images (it is done using “Kwicks Gallery” plugin) and efficient functionality. The mentioned above jQuery plugin is widely used for creating such kind of attractive effects for presenting some images on the page. Check out the free template live demo to see this theme in work! Try it and start your successful projects!
Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business:
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 with Accordion for Hotel Business 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 with Accordion for Hotel Business with PSD files (14,9MB)
Download Free Website Template with Accordion for Hotel Business without PSD (1,16MB)
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.
So you pump quality blog content, but do you inject some creativity into your blog posts and articles? Well, don’t overlook the importance of post design as it plays a highly supportive role to engage people’s attention when they visit your site. We’re putting this list to show how you can style your blog content to encourage readers to spend more time on your blog and come for more. Though being quite generic in style, these web designs do break the mold of the blogosphere with creative approach towards blog post styling, being themed specifically to the content. The question comes then, what can you do to make your blog more attractive?
What keeps hooked on the blog post content is a cleverly design arrangement of posts – readers can spot grid style layouts with posts being placed throughout, neat column styles, scattered designs, themed post styles or ones that have a latest post being prominently shown whereas previous posts are being visually shortened.
As for the lead images, they often go with borders or shadowing (that helps the image stand out from the page) and are placed at the top of the post content to break up text heavy pages and provide visual relief. Left sidebar layout with the text framing the image or just going side by side with it is also popular when the task is to enhance the appeal of a blog. Thus, the image doesn’t fight with the post for attention, but reinforces the message.
When it comes to the post titles, to make them stand out from the standard post content blog owners use larger fonts, often with some unique font styles being applied to them. Plus, we can see post images with overlapping titles, often done to communicate more than a plain title could do on its own. In this case, the post title and image work together with the goal of enticing the visitor to read the first line of the post. Sometimes blog posts can even come equipped with a drop cap style when the first letter of the paragraph is being dropped cap to immediately draw readers’ attention to the start of the post.
Right after the post title usually goes some meta data – date & time, author attribution (to establish a human connection), and a comment count, which are worked into the design so they don’t stick out. However the layout solution for a date might be truly creative. Overlapping the post image, showing from behind of the content area, being distinguished with colors, unusual light/shadow effects, textures, or forms, they do their best to attract attention. Besides, a nicely designed comments count can as well go a long way towards encouraging the visitor to proceed with a post reading and even leave a comment, so it also needs serious consideration.
At the end of each blog post, many blogs are including things like buttons and links for social media voting and promotion, categories and tags, and clickable calls-to-actions (often a prominent ‘read more’ or ‘continue reading’ permalink at the end of the excerpt – short text snippets of posts on the blog’s home page) that will encourage readers to go and read the post entry. By the way, the text snippet length and formatting should be carefully calculated not to overload the page.
So break free of the usual blog posts design mindset, still try implementing these aspects as they can definitely increase and retain traffic on your blog.
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Blog.ismaelburciaga.com
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Colorcubic.com
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Want to get some free bucks which you can spend on advertising your website? We will give you $100 in free Google advertising* under this new little promo that we’re launching. Just follow these simple steps and you can get Google AdWords promotional coupon for $100.
TemplateMonster now offers a 15% discount code for any VirtueMart, Magento, PrestaShop, osCommerce or Zen Cart purchase (active for 4 days – until Sunday, October 23rd). Those of you using this code in the shopping cart automatically enter the lottery, which will give you a chance to win one of five $100 Google AdWords Coupons that we have. So basically the conditions of entering are (1) buying one of the eCommerce templates from TemplateMonster from October 20th through October 23rd 2011 and (2) using the “100adwords” promocode during that eCommerce template purchase. So don’t forget to use the promocode if you want to enter, that’s important. That’s how we know if you want to enter the lottery or not. Then on Monday, October 24th we’ll take the list of all those who enter the lottery and will randomly pick the 5 lucky ones who’ll get the coupons.
Imagine what a great surprise it would be when one morning you’ll check your inbox and see that TemplateMonster has sent you $100 AdWords Coupon. You definitely better not let this opportunity pass you by and make sure to use a chance to save up to $30 on eCommerce template purchase and get a $100 Google AdWords Coupon.
Well, you may already be spending hundreds or thousands of dollars for various advertising media. With Google AdWords you gain competitive advantage as Google will display your ads right next to keyword search results, bringing more customers to you. It is for sure a fastest way to bring a quality target traffic to a new online store.
Now you have less than four days to enter the lottery. Google Adwords coupons will be active until October 31st of this year. But note that these coupons can only be used by customers who have a billing address within North America. That is a strict rule of Google and we should follow it, there’s nothing we can do about it.
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So if you are ready to give it a try and win a free $100 Google AdWords Coupon, go ahead and buy the eCommerce template.
* Terms and Conditions Apply: Promotional credit must be applied to a new AdWords account within 15 days of creating the AdWords account and is valid only for new Google AdWords customers. Advertisers will be charged for all advertising that exceeds the promotional credit. Advertisers will need to suspend their ads at the time the promotional credit amount is met, if they do not wish to receive additional advertising charges. Offer subject to ad approval, valid registration, and acceptance of the Google AdWords Program standard terms and conditions. The promotional credit is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered. Offer may be revoked at any time for any reason by Google Inc. One promotional credit per customer. Advertisers who choose prepay billing are subject to a $10 (CAD20) minimum prepayment fee before their account is activated. Any such prepay amount will be credited to Advertiser’s account once account is activated. Offer valid only for customers with billing address in the US or Canada. Offer void where prohibited by law.
Today’s big event is a new TemplateMonster’s discount promo that gives you a chance to save up to $1000 on any AfterEffects Logo Reveal buyout/unique order.
Simply use ‘aelogos50off’ promocode to get an awesome 50% discount on any AfterEffects Logo Reveal buyout/unique price
AfterEffect products hardly ever go on sale, so if you want some designs to jazz up your e-space with a fabulous motion graphics – be sure to take advantage of a new 50% OFF price for buyout/unique purchases and stock up prior than anyone else will do it. The AfterEffects Logo Reveals would be extremely useful for creating intros, magically animated website headers or the whole site backdrops. And now it’s all going to cost you far less!
The promo discount is however time-sensitive and will be valid starting today and until October 31st 2011 for any AfterEffects Logo Reveal (buyout/unique purchase only). Right now you can pick a template for yourself for a huge 50% discount over. But you’d better get in quick to choose the design that will add a touch of Hollywood to your site! Because once your AfterEffects Logo Reveal template is bought by someone else it will be forever removed from our collection. Go and shop first with the best selection of AfterEffects Logo Reveals!
Do you know about the trick that people often use on Facebook to hold back content for fans only? Well, this is a little ruse when you hide some content from people who are not your Facebook page fans, and once they click the ‘Like’ button and become your fans, they can view exclusive fans-only content.
The pull behind this trick is that Facebook profile owners give visitors a really hard to skip incentive to like their page and become a fan. Today’s good news is that TemplateMonster has added some renewed Facebook Reveal Tab Templates that are full HTML5 animated designs that you may set to display in case a visitor is not a fan of your Facebook page. You can find these extended new designs in addition to what is already available in Facebook Reveal Tab product category (all the previously released templates have been also renewed to come into line with the new ones). Now see what exact benefits you will receive upon getting this product.
Every single Facebook Reveal Template download package will now additionally include a userpic custom design in PSD format and a nice little template of a welcome page for ‘fan-only’ content. This page can be further adapted to suit your Facebook project needs. What we mean saying userpic design is actually a profile picture that is designed in accordance with the template style and incorporates some elements of brand identity, including company name, logo, custom images etc. Each Facebook Reveal Tab Template also integrates the sections that lead to other social streams – to show that your company has a broad social media reach and is up to serve customers elsewhere.
Now let us show you some examples of these renewed Facebook Reveal products. Click through to the demo pages to see the templates in full size and quality:
E-Shop Facebook Reveal Template
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Spare Parts Facebook Reveal Template
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