Our flash templates and flash intro templates are famous for their effects. This is what makes them so cool. It is not a secret though that many of these effects are not easy to produce with standard tools of Flash (versions 6 & 7).

Flash 8 is different. Its standard tools allow adding many of the great effects by just pressing the right button. The effects include:

• Drop shadow
• Blur
• Glow
• Bevel
• etc…

Besides, there are many other new options that make it easier to produce great stuff in Flash 8. It results not only in better user experience but also in the size of the final product and the ways it can be edited.

That is why we decided to start a new category Flash 8 templates. We will place there all the templates developed in Flash 8 (websites templates & flash intro templates).
As you may guess, the templates in this category are developed in Flash 8 that makes it simpler to edit them. All the effects listed above and many others can be found with our Flash 8 templates.

Note that you will need Flash 8.0 to edit any of our Flash 8 templates.

You can read more about Flash 8 in a special review prepared by Web Design Library team.

We have added a new preview option to our site. Now you do not need to click on a thumbnail to view the template enlarged. What you need to do is just to point your mouse to a thumbnail and a medium size preview of the template will appear. Of course, medium size preview won’t give you all the details but this is an option for fast previewing.

Check it now!

As many of you might notice, we released stretched templates on Monday.

What is a stretched website template or stretched website? Well… There’s no strict definition of stretched websites (the term is rather new). The distinctive feature of our stretched website templates is that they fill the browser window as it expands or contracts. There’s a synonym for stretched website (template) which is liquid website (template). No matter what the name is the essence is the same.

According to w3schools statistics, only half of Internet users use 1024×768 display resolution. Want your site to be available to every user regardless of his screen resolution? Stretched website (based on one of our templates) is a solution.

Browse our collection of stretched website templates (there are only six of them for the moment but we add new templates regularly).

Read more about it with our Press Release – Stretched Web Templates.

St. Valentine’s Day approaching! We at Template Monster have created a special E-card for all our respected visitors. This St. Valentine’s E-Card is absolutely free and will take you only a couple of minutes to send.

This e-card is the result of work of our designers, flashers, and interface programmers. We really hope that you like the way it looks and works.

Besides, to celebrate the occasion we produced a special collection of St. Valentine’s Day osCommerce templates. osCommerce templates are easy to set up so it won’t take you long to switch your osCommerce based online shop to one of ours designs.

Check St. Valentine’s collection now!

Million Dollar Home Page launched by Alex Tew experienced some DDoS attacks recently so one of the most famous and genuine web projects was not available. We are glad to announce that due to the great work of our colleagues from DDoS Protection (another one project of Template Monster) Million Dollar Home Page is back online now.

We at Template Monster are always glad to support brilliant ideas whatever they are!

We introduce our new product line – Zen Cart Templates.

Zen Cart is a solution developed for both merchants and shoppers. If you do e-commerce go ahead and try it! It’s open source.

If you already use Zen Cart on your web site – upgrade it with any of our Zen Cart templates to make it look stylish.

View Zen Cart Sample or download it.

Please, note that we provide templates for Zen Cart only so you have to download and install Zen Cart system on your website first.

Read more about it with our press release: Template Monster Designs Zen Cart Templates

Today is a special day for our company. We have released 10,000th template!

Currently, our collection of web templates is the largest on the Web. We are proud to hold the leading positions in the industry and set standards in it. Read more about it in the Press Release on the event.

2005 year was a productive one for us. We have released three new product lines:
SWiSH templates, osCommerce templates, phpBB skins; launched a couple of educational resources: Tutorial Kit and Flash Perfection.

In 2006 we will deliver you even more products of the highest quality as always, new product lines will be added and more new projects launched!

We wish productivity and great wealth to all our customers, and partners!

Happy New Year!

International Web Developers Network is a young but very active community of web developers.
Template Monster is not in any relationships with IWDN yet (we are thinking about sponsoring the community). We just like it and would like to congratulate all IWDN members heartily on their first anniversary.

You guys make this world a better place!

We are glad to announce that we have started a new project – ReInvention. ReInvention is to guide you step by step through web design process.

To be more specific we are to redesign a website and each development stage is to be explained and discussed. So it’s not a usual showcase but a live show you are welcome to participate.

Our main partner on the project is WebHostingTalk forum so all the discussions will be held with this forum. Due to such a specific partner the site we will redesign is to be hosting related.

Currently, we are in the process of choosing a website for redesign. If you are in hosting industry you are welcome to apply though we have some criteria for applicants we promise to get back to every candidate.

We truly hope that you will find this initiative of ours helpful and interesting to participate. One more reason to take part in it is that if your ideas will be of creative nature and hit the mark they will be realized and you will be rewarded with the prizes from our sponsor partners.