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Fresh TemplateMonster Testimonials

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.

Instant Rebates Launched on TemplateMonster

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.

Instant Rebates Launched on TemplateMonster

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!

20% Discount for PrestaShop Themes from TemplateMonster!

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.

20% Discount for PrestaShop Themes from TemplateMonster!

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20% Discount for PrestaShop Themes from TemplateMonster!

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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!

Turnkey CMS Facebook Templates Launched

Today is a great day for all of the fans of custom Facebook brand pages – today we at TemplateMonster launch a new Facebook-related product type. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Turnkey CMS Facebook templates – in addition to the awesome Facebook Flash templates, Facebook Flash CMS templates and Facebook HTML templates these new ones are all at your service. Of course, as you may have guessed there’s something special about these new templates (because after all there’s something special about every product type that we have).

Turnkey CMS Facebook Templates Launched

The Turnkey CMS Facebook templates are powered by the Turnkey CMS ver. 2.0 built by Site2You, our long-term friends and partners. By the way, some of TemplateMonster’s customers may be familiar with this CMS because previously we have launched Turnkey Websites 2.0, also powered by this version of CMS. From our own experience we may say that this is a great CMS that’s easy to work with and that people love very much. But CMS itself is not the only thing that’s so good about these new Facebook templates. The installation process is also something you should know about. First useful thing about it is that each time you purchase a Turnkey CMS Facebook template, there’s already a hosting space for it – free for you, because all of these templates are being hosted on Site2You’s servers. This means you don’t need any additional hosting accounts to have your template installed. Another thing is the installation process itself – it’s really easy and won’t take much time, this is to make sure you’ll be able to concentrate on things that are really important instead of hassling with installation issues. Please feel free to see the presentation of this new product.

Sounds awesome, doesn’t it? Now go ahead and browse those templates, choose the one you like and start working with it!

TemplateMonster’s Top Fans of July Awards

TemplateMonsters Top Fans of July AwardsAlright, time has come to award our July’s top Facebook fans based on the activity info provided by the Booshaka app. Once again for those who don’t know – during a month the magical app watches over the fans’ activity on TemplateMonster’s Facebook page and based on the number of likes, posts and comments rates our fans. Once the month is done we award top 10 fans – it’s all as simple as that.

In July our Top Fan is once again Noah Holland (by the way, happy birthday Noah!). He took the first place with 475 points. So he gets a free template, as usually. Also free templates go to Robin Lang and Oscar Leonardo Serrano Cadena who took second and third places respectively. 50% discount goes to #4, #5 and #6 (Bajan Heat, Will Yoo and Damon Sson respectively). And finally, 40% discounts will be delivered to #7, #8, #9 and #10 – these are Michelle Mauricio, Michael Giordano, Recep Ozgul and Jeremy Wattrelos. Thanks everyone for the time and efforts you’ve put in your activity on our Facebook page, we hope it was just as much fun for you all as it was for us.

And since it was a lot of fun, we’ll happily award the top Facebook fans of our page in early September as well, based on the fans’ activity during August 2011. So in case you’re not in the Top 10 this time you’re welcome to enter a competition right now – making it to the top 10 is very easy. See you next time!

First Ever Facebook Reveal Tab Template Launched

You guys probably noticed when visiting Facebook fan pages that sometimes the content is hidden from users who have not yet liked this page. Wondering how to hide content like this on your Facebook fan pages? We have the solution to tackle this interesting issue as TemplateMonster’s developers started producing Facebook Reveal Tab Templates with today’s fresh HTML5-animated Facebook reveal tab template. These HTML5 animated designs function as short Facebook promo intros that eclipse the main content, but with some creativity involved.

Hiding content creates really hard-to-skip incentive for visitors to like your page to get the hidden content. In other words, Facebook Reveal Template solution we’ve released today can be a very effective tool of motivating viewers to become fans of your page. Because what they initially see is a content of a non-fan, scarcely informative however made to trigger the curiously, once however they click the ‘Like’ button, Facebook fan page switches to a new layout with fans-only content revealed in exchange for a new fan. As you can see, this can be done pretty easily using our HTML5-based Facebook Reveal Tab Template – all you need is a little knowledge of HTML. Check out and share your opinion on this new product in our comments section.

First Ever Facebook Reveal Tab Template Launched

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TemplateMonster’s New Special Offers – Guardlex and eCopywriters

Today’s good news is that TemplateMonster has added some extra special offers you can choose in addition to what you’ve purchased at TemplateMonster.

Now we’re very pleased to help you uncover and implement new qualified services and cost-efficient pricing opportunities. So, when you added the product to the shopping cart, before you check out we’ll offer you additional services that if chosen will simply be added to your total. If you want to purchase any of these extra options, simply click the button next to a certain offer to add it to your order. Yet what exact benefits will you receive upon choosing them, let us explain.

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Copyright Protection Plan from Guardlex.com

The first one is about Guardlex.com service. This is an online anti-piracy service allowing intellectual property owners to stop illegal distribution of their products or unauthorized usage of their trademarks. To accomplish this, Guardlex.com provides a number of very flexible and affordable protection plans ranging from Basic (website design or single design product protection), Advanced (software, articles, photos, etc. protection), and ending up with the Pro-Active (for huge companies that provide wide range of products). Now you can exclusively order a basic plan of copyrighted items protection program from Guardlex.com while purchasing any of our products. In this case the price will be reduced significantly for you to able to save a whole lot of money with this offer. If you’re creative developers who produce various design products, try out this perfect solution to fight back piracy, design plagiarism, or any other copyright infringement of the unique content you have on your websites.

TemplateMonsters New Special Offers   Guardlex and eCopywriters

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Writing Serivces for 5 Website Pages from eCopyWriters.com

for as low as $50

Another offer touches upon professional website copywriting services. TemplateMonster currently cooperates with eCopyWriters.com – a company that embraces thousands of freelance copywriters to produce quality content for your website, blog, or eCommerce site. eCopyWriters.com covers a broad range of industries (consumer products, technology, advertising & marketing, financials, etc.) and copywriting services (SEO copywriting, editing, blogging, ghostwriting, web copywriting, press releases, and more), that is therefore an ideal solution for affiliate marketers, SEO agencies, eCommerce clients, and traditional public relation and advertising agencies. Now, if you place an order at TemplateMonster, you can save 80% the normal retail price ordering this excellent copywriting service. For as low as $50, you get 5 pages website content professionally written and fully edited by U.S.-based copywriter and originally certified by Copyscape. Take advantage of this great opportunity – the discounted offer is only valid for a limited-time period.

TemplateMonsters New Special Offers   Guardlex and eCopywriters

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Thus and so, the next time you’re making a purchase at TemplateMonster, consider which of these two services go along nicely with the main purpose of your project and order one that you find essential for your project development.

Free Tools To Validate HTML, CSS & RSS Feeds

Messy code is a huge headache for web developers and webmasters and I’m sure that many of you know that the hardest part of the job is to clean this mess. Beautiful and well-structured HTML and CSS documents can be easily achieved by using HTML and CSS validation tools. You’ll agree that sometimes you can meet unknown errors or other issues while testing your markup and the following validation tools easily fix any problem that might occur. We’ve gathered a list of popular free validation tools (it is a mix of online services with some great Firefox plugins). These great tools will help you make sure that your visitors are experiencing everything on your website in the right way and you have nothing to worry about. Also it is obvious that HMTL and CSS are essential for any website, although we can’t disregard the role of RSS feeds that are also very important for any web project that have a potential to grow and stream fresh media content. So, it has been said that these tools are great helpers for any web developer and webmaster and we’ve got nothing to add except – let’s browse through it.

Online Validation Tools

Of course you have used these legendary W3C tools that are featured below. Every web developer starts the testing process by checking his HTML and CSS code with the help of these two excellent services. Also we’ve added several similar services that provide advanced validation for HTML, CSS and even RSS feeds. Mostly these tools have very user-friendly interface with simple output.

1. W3C HTML Validator

Free Tools To Validate HTML, CSS & RSS Feeds

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2. W3C CSS validator

Free Tools To Validate HTML, CSS & RSS Feeds

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Accounts System Launched on TemplateMonster

We are happy to announce that all TemplateMonster customers are now able to register customer accounts on TemplateMonster. So far the system is in beta testing stage, this means that it’s brand new and we’ll be happy to know your suggestions and feedback about what you think could be improved. But even though it’s so new and so beta, all of you are free to register customer accounts with TemplateMonster right now – while purchasing any of TemplateMonster products you will be offered to create an account.

The whole point behind creating the accounts system is obviously the user convenience, that’s what we’re launching them for. The most important feature is helping our customers keep track of their transactions with a complete purchase history stored in a single location. Additionally, we’re planning to add some other sweet features soon, such as products bookmarking and support integration. And of course we’ll happily consider your ideas about what other features should be added to the accounts system to make it even better.

What’s also important is that the accounts system is powered by our long time friends from Webmaster club who already handle accounts for a number of projects already familiar to you. And the interesting part is that if you have registered the account on either of Webmaster club’s websites, this account will also be applicable for other websites of the network. So if you create an account on TemplateMonster, you’ll automatically get the account on one of the following websites:

And vice versa – if you already have an account on either of these websites, you may use it to login to TemplateMonster account.

Please don’t hesitate to share your opinion about this new launch right here in the comments section to this post, we’d appreciate that greatly.

DepositPhotos Lottery on TemplateMonster

DepositPhotos Lottery on TemplateMonster We hope everyone has had as much fun with the previous VPS hosting lottery, as we have had bringing it to you. This time we’re initiating a brand new exciting lottery to give you a chance to get over the hump and win one of 5 promocodes for 30-day subscription ($99 value) to DepositPhotos – one of the fastest growing photo stock sup­plier on the inter­net!

Don’t miss your chance to get the prize – you’ll be able to download up to 10 high quality images per day, having access to all .jpeg and vector sizes.

This all is meant for the customers buying all of TemplateMonster’s products, including our WordPress themes that are now available at a 20% discount. Here’s in fact what you have to do to enter the lottery:

  1. Buy one of TemplateMonster templates during a period of Thursday, June 30th to Monday, July 4th. This won’t be difficult as we have the internet’s biggest variety of templates, plus some of them are currently available at an attractive discount (such as 20% discount for WordPress themes or a 25% discount for Facebook templates).
  2. Once you complete your order, go back to this blog post page and post a comment containing the ID of a template you’ve purchased in the comment text. Now here comes a very important part – while posting a comment in the email field please specify the email address that you’ve used for a template purchase on TemplateMonster (not in a comment text field). Don’t worry – the email address will never be disclosed and won’t be visible to general public, we only need to know it to be able to confirm that you have in fact made a purchase at TemplateMonster during the days of lottery.

    In other words, this means that only comments posted independently will be eligible for the lottery, no comments posted via social networks will be allowed to enter. We know you may not like it, but sorry, we have to do it just this once.

  3. First thing Tuesday morning we’ll look through the comments and will randomly pick five lucky winners who will receive promocodes for 1 month subscription ($99 value). We’ll notify these persons using the email address he/she has used for the TemplateMonster order.

As you can see, the rules actually remain the same as we had in the previous promo. You purchase any of our templates, post a comment to this post and that’s it – you enter for the chance to win your promocode for 1-month DepositPhotos subscription! Now be quick to browse our high-end WordPress themes – upon getting one you’re a step closer to your prize!