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Grunge style is so much popular these days that everybody wants to use it on their blogs and websites. But why people love grunge? It is rather destructive and messy – the complete negation of structural order. That confused blend of irregular lines, dirty stains, textures, spilled out liquids, images with a torn effect – the epitome of grunge, isn’t it? Well, grunge gives a more leeway to pure naturalness as there is no showiness in grunge, nothing to prove. Grunge always feels right. And it will always well up within people regardless of how well the others react. If you love grunge and feel that your website should be somewhat urban, assertive by nature, you should use the grunge website templates from our collection – they perfectly utilize multiple grunge elements. Today’s featured designs bring grunge style to make any website pop. Check out!
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Starter Xml Flash Site Template
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Gyoen WordPress Theme
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Vision Xml Flash Site Template
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When WordPress goes paring with jQuery in the process of site development, you can come out with some really smart layout results. Because jQuery allows you to quickly animate your blog, style the navigation menu, add some interactive dynamic elements to showcase works – well this list can be endless as jQuery functions variety is ever-increasing. Most often site owners feel that the space on the front page is not enough to properly render their project objectives – if that is the case then this JavaScript library could be the solution you need. We extend our WordPress Themes with jQuery elements so you could make use of sliders, image/content galleries, show and hide functions as well as other interesting animation effects. You can use the most advanced techniques of this framework and your WordPress powered design will then feel more powerful and easy to browse and interact with. Those of customers who use our WordPress designs enhanced with jQuery already take advantage of everything this two amazing technologies can offer them. Now’s the time for you to benefit from our most advanced WordPress products.
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Jacov WordPress Theme
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JustStephen WordPress Theme
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Zero WordPress Theme
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Using big font size to get visitors’ attention is nothing new. With following designs, font is also the most important part of the designs. It may be followed by the second most important items – images, graphics, layout style or whatever, but such visual hierarchy clearly tells the visitor how each page is meant to be viewed. Users’ eyes are drawn to the most important element on the page – big font – and the larger the font size is for every single element here the more important it appears. You would probably agree that if to attempt to make everything on a page emphasized, it’s that easy to end up with a page that has very little appeal or, even worse, blend everything into a boring muddle. Here we have web designs that are using typography to get attention. Using big fonts is actually a good way of performing this task. We’ve however tried to gather designs that don’t go overboard with this technique. Today’s website and template examples simply choose the right font to compliment the website’s style and make it attractively over-sized to establish certain one-of-a-kind mood.
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Giftrocket.com
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Arbol.com.au
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Facebook now has over 800 million active users that’s just about as many as the entire Internet had back in 2004 [according to Yahoo news]. And you still don’t have a custom Facebook page for your business? Today, it is an absolute must-have thing for every business, no matter how small it is. If your Facebook page does not have a solidly customized landing page you are no longer interesting to the audience, face it. People vaguely want to stare at your boring wall. You should make it engaging! Once landing on your attractive branded page users are more willing to ‘Like’ it than if they just land on your wall, plus such unique mini websites within Facebook will convert much better.
So don’t leave the layout of your profile the same as everyone else’s. You can easily customize what people see when they land on your page by using Facebook Flash CMS Templates offered at TemplateMonster. These MotoCMS powered designs are basically full-fledged Flash websites delivered within Facebook. And you can publish them instantly. Right now we’ll show you what you can get with them, just scroll down and see. This article embraces some fresh goodies.
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Prospero Flash CMS Template
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Mr. Design Facebook Flash CMS Template
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Angel Facebook Flash CMS Template
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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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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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TemplateMonster’s best-selling Joomla 1.7 Templates list ranks the 5 top selling designs based on analyzes of sales from the website. Over the past months there have been many nice templates created for the Joomla platform version 1.7, but the really striking ones are featured here. Guys, you all know that the competition is tougher than ever. What does it take to make your Joomla website stand out from the rest? And how is anybody going to actually spot your site? Use one of these templates. Now we’ll show you why they are so popular with webmasters and web users alike.
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Grafix Joomla 1.7 Template
This one is really elegant sophisticated template that appeals to the web design or business sector and those web developers looking for something that is easy to setup and configure. The design incorporates attractive slider solution that is being displayed with a shadow to add some depth to it. The layout feels incredibly neat and clean letting the images and content shine enough to be clearly seen and feel comforting to the eye. Here the main content is placed on the overlay that’s on the top of the page, whereas gray & black contrast divides the template to accent the footer. Plus, this template combines content in a grid structure with the front page being laid out into three columns. Professional clean quality design for a variety of functions.
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Semioli Joomla 1.7 Template
What is great about this particular Joomla 1.7 Template is its bluish style with a gradient effect applied. This design can appear to be a real helping hand in the process of new Joomla-powered corporate website establishment. The beautiful fusion of reflective icons, seamlessly integrated text blocks, framed thumbnails, neat fonts and huge typography elements make the current Joomla design a favorite. For the navigation bars the design uses a slick pointer that is center aligned with the text link to give users a clear visual feedback in the navigation. In addition, a huge typography used here is playing the role of an eye-catchy design element to promote key ideas of the company.
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If you want to get more Extended Package designs beyond the first Toplist Extended Package Templates Showcase, here’s a part 2 for you all. We welcome you to browse through another top 20 Extended Package pre-designs that include a whole set of useful elements in addition to what you normally receive within the download package (you get bonus pages, additional scripts, interactive elements, and much more all in a bundle). So the only thing left to do after you buy the template is to only change the lorem ipsum stuff with your own content and you’re ready to kick start your own website. So, if you’re looking for something quick and simple, these templates will keep the cost down. Plus we don’t charge any additional cost for the extra features included in these templates. Extended Package designs are priced just about the price of an average TemplateMonster’s template. Now see our picks for the best continuing Extended Package series and find a website design here that will work well for your company and will also speak best to your customers.
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Sparks JS Animated Full Site Template
![Top 20 Extended Package Templates List [Continued]](http://blog.tmimgcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Sparks-JS-Animated-Full-Site-Template.jpg?9d7bd4 "Sparks JS Animated Full Site Template")
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Elevation JS Animated Full Site Template
![Top 20 Extended Package Templates List [Continued]](http://blog.tmimgcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Elevation-JS-Animated-Full-Site-Template.jpg?9d7bd4 "Elevation JS Animated Full Site Template")
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Architex CSS Full Site Flash CS3 Template
![Top 20 Extended Package Templates List [Continued]](http://blog.tmimgcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Architex-CSS-Full-Site-Flash-CS3-Template.jpg?9d7bd4 "Architex CSS Full Site Flash CS3 Template")
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Designers have a sea of choices, ideas, and techniques to implement when creating a website. The trend to use illustration-style backgrounds for websites is getting now ever-popular. We see many examples where designers take a certain illustrative style and incorporate it into website background design to impress the visitors and make them remember this particular web destination. Website owners may use illustrations as a brand’s mascot being a part of a header or an accent within the content area, a whole background or simply implement a story-telling picture to small sections of the website. That is being done to add visual appeal and some funny creative vibe to website layouts. Further you’ll be able to see the round-up of websites that have chosen to use illustrated elements as a part of their design. All these examples are undoubtedly impressive and span several visual styles. Have a look – there should be plenty of ideas of how you can incorporate illustrative style into your own designs.
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Ufo.lt
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Thelostthing.com
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Reverenddanger.com
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