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We bring you the best templates for your site, so that you could have a bunch of free time to do other stuff than designing templates! Extended Package Website Templates that were recently added to our category list are the solution you might be highly interested in. Take a look!
The most important thing about the template of this category is that they include a whole set of extra useful elements in addition to what you normally receive within the download package. Among other things, the extended package templates contain scripts that are optimized for each particular template (including the jQuery scripts for sliders, galleries and so on); bonus pages as well as other awesome functionalities – all in a bundle. The Extended Package design category embraces JS animated full site templates, CSS full site Flash CS3 designs, Flash animated website templates and more. Of course the HTML versions of these templates are done in pure HTML5/CSS3. And you know what else is awesome about them? They’re all priced at around $65 – that’s just about the price of average TemplateMonster template, so we don’t charge any additional fees for the awesome features included in these templates.
You don’t have to worry about complete website template design because it is all ready for you right here. All Extended Package template designs are up top to serve you and you can use them as a basis for fast website development! With each purchase you get advanced editing options:
- pages:
- under construction page;
- intro page;
- 404 page;
- layouts:
- full-width;
- two columns;
- three columns;
- four colums;
- multi column 1;
- multi column 2;
- typography:
- H1-H6 headings;
- image aligned left & right;
- dropcap;
- table styling;
- other elements styling;
- button links;
- styling lists;
- box styles;
- interactive elements:
- intro page;
- coin slider;
- kwicks slider;
- functional slider;
- simple gallery;
- advanced gallery;
- miscellaneous:
- tootips;
- tabs;
- SlideDown elements;
- accordion;
- absolute position SlideDown;
- Twitter.
To view how it all works please see a live demo of any of the Extended Package website templates and click on the ‘Advanced editing’ button on the right.
With around 100 templates and growing, finding the web design that best suits your style couldn’t be easier. Feel free to search our Extended Package Templates category and choose from these solid website templates design that will help you with your website. Now go ahead and browse the list we’ve compiled for you. You may as well check out the continuation of our picks for other best 20 Extended Package Templates.
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Pal Consult Co. CSS Full Site Flash CS3 Template
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What are you thinking about when looking at the rainbow? Does it trigger a varied and colorful world in your mind? Well, rainbows are beautiful, no doubt about that, so many creative processes tend to include rainbow colors and so many web designers abundantly use them everywhere. No wonder, we often seek out the brightest as a natural reflex to the visual color stimulus. Today therefore we are going to be covering the color-wheel website designs.
The showcase will include the primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) and secondary ones (orange, green, and purple), which on the spectrum are half way between the three primary colors and are made by combining two of them. Since we are on the topic of rainbow colors, we can now start our color-wheel review and cover these different color-based websites.
But first, we know that there are seven colors of the rainbow. Many of us have resorted to using some little tricks to jog our memory concerning the order of these basic seven colors. Remember the phrase that we were taught as a child in order to recall of the rainbow colors? ‘Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain’ – this mnemonic is for sure the most popular way of learning the colors of the spectrum. Yet did you know there are some alternatives to this phrase, for example
- ‘Run off You Girls – Boys in View!’ or
- ‘Roll out Your Guinness, Boys, in Vats.’
Which was the one you were remembering, huh?
Now memory tricks aside, we’re back with our showcase. Today’s digital world needs some bold pieces of color on the web, don’t you agree? Well, for this reason we’ve gone on a massive search and compiled a collection of about 50 designs (including TemplateMonster’s templates) that use certain rainbow colors heavily in their layouts. With that being done, they just make a good use of color branding and turn their graphics from a flat and lifeless to an engaging piece of work. Have a browse and let us know what are your favorite designs and why you tend to like certain rainbow colors.
That’s gonna be a BIG color journey!
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Intensityintencities.ca
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Toyny.com
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Agathagroup.com.co
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Netliferesearch.com
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Established1986.com
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Wilsonminer.com
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Today we’ll touch upon the key aspects of making a successful Facebook fan page. It’s all about an air of transparency, openness and direct communication. So it should in no way look like an advertising platform. All website owners, without exception, are interested in increasing their web presence and conversion, which is attainable due to the new and devoted customers they get from Facebook pages.
Depending on the results you need to obtain from your target audience, you may choose one of three major ways of fan page presentations. You will find Reveal tabs, Facebook stores and Facebook info sites among Facebook fan pages.
Reveal Tab
Reveal tab looks like a welcome page with an appeal to “like” and a minimum of additional info. The hidden content is shown up only after you “like” the page. The main goal of such a page is converting the maximum amount of visitors into “likes”. If you find it efficient for your goals, create a welcome page with an appealing custom graphic calling for the “like” action and some intriguing information about why the visitor actually need to click the “like” button. Reveal Page should deliver marketing message. The welcome page like this is aimed at generating more ‘likes’. As soon as someone ‘likes’ the page he/she is being redirected to a “thank you” page. This page may list optional modules for enhanced functionality.
Simple design, clear marketing message and instructions. Besides, you will get a coupon for a FREE taco right after you click the “like” button. A reveal tab like this will quickly gain popularity and lure more fans!
Here are several other examples of nice, eye-catching reveal tabs:
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Therefore, we’d like to mark out a few tips about a reveal tab usage:
Let the whole world know about you by seeing your own personal Joomla website. Now is the great news. Since Joomla templates is one of TemplateMonster’s most popular product types, now the number of versatile Joomla 1.7 Templates is also out for the latest version of Joomla. Our Joomla 1.7 templates are designed to give you maximum control over the appearance of your site, plus having them you can take full advantage of the updated Joomla core features.
With every Joomla 1.7 Template that you buy from TemplateMonster you also get one year of free unlimited hosting and a free domain registration from JustHost. What’s even more, we offer a good archive of free tutorials and help info, plus you’ll get 24/7 free support via Live chat, phone support or tickets system. Make sure even if you’re still new to Joomla, you’ll manage to create a really nice website for your company. In case there’ll be some problems in setting up the template contact our support team, and they’ll be glad to help. TemplateMonster will support you till your issue is completely resolved.
There’s also much questioning on how to convert a website or any other template into a fully working Joomla 1.7 template. Those who are interested in easily updating to Joomla 1.7 are welcome to read the following instructions and step by step tutorials:
- What you need to know about Joomla 1.7
- Download Joomla 1.7
- Installing Joomla 1.7
- Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7
- Upgrading 1.6.5 to 1.7
When you modify the template, you’ll probably want to add some extensions to make the design elements better relate to your project’s focus. Check out the directory of Joomla 1.7 extensions, right now there are about 2000 add-ons and modules serving to the Joomla community.
If you need to find Joomla designs for other major Joomla releases, we invite you to see the full assortment of our Joomla Templates. TemplateMonster offers all versions of Joomla (1.5, 1.6, and 1.7) as well as Joomla templates made with various technologies (such as Flash or jQuery, for example). With different subcategories and an enhanced search options, we made it easy for you to find a suitable design for your Joomla based website. So, come and get them! And look through the Joomla 1.7 Templates listed below – depending on the category they were designed for, each of them was built to express your individuality.
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Pure Web
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Semioli
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You may often meet such a word abbreviation as UX meaning user experience. It’s all about how you perceive the product, system, application or service. This touches invisible threads of human-computer interaction and practical things such as utility, usability and overall efficiency.
Being concerned with e-commerce designs, we’d like to shed some light on the issue of user experience design of shopping carts. This has to do with all facets of people’s interaction with a shopping cart. The way users feel about the cart is of utmost importance. Being versatile, UX design implies psychology, sociology, graphic design, computer science and even cognitive science.
Knowing some simple principles may ease users’ navigation through your shopping cart. After studying various popular e-stores we’d like to offer you 12 use-proven UX tips for your shopping carts:
Keep Tab On a Clickstream In Your Analytics Program
The best way to trace customers’ activity on your shopping cart pages is to use special clickstreams and conversion funnels. This is achievable due to the analytics programs like Userfly, ClickTale etc. For finding some weak points you may even get customers’ sessions recorded or screens captured. Thus you are able to find out where people get errors or difficulties and why.
Make an Easy Access to Customer Service and Shipping Info
Try to make information on your customer service, shipping, and return policy easy and accessible. The best solution would be to place it on each page of your checkout system. Try to predict the potential customers’ questions they may ask while checking-out. Probably, the most important questions would be:
- May I return goods for free?
- What is the shipping cost?
- How long will it take to ship and return products?
Place Coupon Codes Reasonably
In doing this roundup we wanted to see how online retailers approached the layout of their shopping cart pages. Such pages are so critical to the customer purchase process, however they often feel as if being thrown together without much concern. Yes, the shopping cart page is very hard to design well. Ideally, it should include product summary, promocode field, multiple paying options, shipping methods, final pricing, privacy and return policy, complimentary products, continue shopping or proceed to checkout links, and more of this important stuff. Shopping cart must be considered carefully during the design process, because the future success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive customers to the checkout stage.
The main objective of each shopping cart page is to lead the customer to the checkout, but how you can do it more effectively? Today’s examples illustrate that online retailers mostly
- highlight the checkout button with color (29 times);
- sometimes they embed visually complementary arrows (13 times);
- or add shopping cart icons (2 times) to the textual call-to-action.
Plus, the checkout button inscriptions may be different:
- in the majority of cases we see word ‘checkout’ (21 times);
- other popular words are ‘proceed to checkout’ (19 times);
- ‘proceed to purchase’ (1 time);
- ‘proceed with your order’ (3 times);
- ‘go to checkout’ (1 time);
- ‘continue to checkout’ (4 times);
- ‘secure checkout’ (2 times).
When the users choose to checkout, they need to be presented with a final list of items on the order, as well as options as to how they want to pay. You may see that not all the shopping cart pages in this list include the logos of credit card next to the payment option; this aspect however would have been highly convenient. Plus, consider – a good shopping cart needs to have a secure seals (we spot them scarcely here) to ensure safe transactions and good security standards.
Considering all these aspects would be lot better from a customer standpoint, so it is definitely important to really take the shopping cart to the right level. Now you can get some useful ideas from observing how other shopping bags are created. We’ve helped you out a little bit by gathering up 40 examples that represent efficient shopping cart designs. There are no doubts that they provide customers with a pleasant purchasing experience.
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Yoox.com
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Ae.com
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Anaglyph technology is used to provide a 3D effect or illusion when someone is looking through 3D glasses usually chromatically opposite with a red filter over the left eye and a blue, cyan, or green over the right. Well if to go deeper into how it works, the 3D stereoscopic picture is initially build with two superimposed color layers, one for each eye. The illusion of depth is produced by offsetting the foreground and background of these two superimposed images for approximately 2.5 inches apart, typical center distance between human eyes. When you look through a pair of anaglyph glasses, they will reveal an integrated stereo image in the manner which it was intended to be seen and the human brain will perceive such image as three dimensional. Further we have a compilation of 3D anaglyph websites and those are full anaglyph websites or some that use stereoscopic images on just a sub-section of their website. Each design is well worth checking out to feel that full scale depth perception.
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Snowdin.com
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Digitalpodge.co.uk
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Being one of the usability cornerstones, search is the part of your website’s functionality that needs constant attention and improvement. Of course default search box is not that bad at all, but often website owners simply forget about some important details which cause negative reactions from the visitors. Our today’s collection devoted to the useful Joomla extensions that are aimed at enhancing your search. All these plugins differ by the size and number of various options and you will choose which one fits you the most. The obvious thing about any default search is that it’s good to have it, but often it just doesn’t have enough features to be called user-friendly. So if you like something from our list don’t hesitate and install it on your Joomla website.
1. AceSearch
AceSearch is powerful Joomla search extension with a great interface and a bunch of superb features. By installing this component you’ll receive front-end search for all components, advanced search with custom fields, AJAX searching & suggestions, Google Analytics Site Search compatibility.
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2. JXFinder
This Joomla search plugin delivers great advanced search options and will make your website more user-friendly. It is a very fast, smart and powerful software with many great options such as Alternative Phrases generation, search filters etc.
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Everyone needs to backup important data. If you accidentally delete files or if your hard drive fails, that’s especially critical since you can easily connect to the remote server to retrieve all your important files with the click of a button. Searching for a secure means of online data backup, we found some of the best services that let you upload your data to a web-based server and access them from any of your computers or mobile phones. What’s particularly great is that these online data storage solutions offer free services to create a backup. However, upon choosing from this variety consider the storage size limitation, the ability to automate backup, security of stored data, restrictions on file size or extensions, as well as on upload speed and bandwidth. Over each image and link below you’ll see short descriptions that will help you make up our mind regarding which solution to use.
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SugarSync is one of the most feature-packed online storage services. With the ability to store, share and synchronize your files online, this solution offers free sign up with 5 GB of online storage, plus users can even get up to 5 free GB of storage space for referring friends. When you make a change or add files on any of your PC or Mac computers, SugarSync automatically syncs your files to the cloud where you can access them from your computer, smartphone or iPad. This service also makes the previous five versions of every file available. However, some people believe that SugarSync could have had more support options.
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Mozy is online backup provider for both Windows and Mac users that offers 2 GB of automated backup for free and the option to add more through paid services. What’s great is that it has a light application and high speed of upload and download. Mozy allows users to back up data continuously, manually or schedule updates; it also backs up based on file changes, only uploading the portion of a file that has changed. Other features include outstanding security, encryption capabilities, and great support.
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Slider is one of trendiest design fads having popped up lately. There are extremely versatile forms of sliders that can be used to display all sorts of information and today we’ll show you some of them. Our blog team has compiled a massive amount of website templates having a featured area with content that slides or changes in some very creative way. This stuff helps the design look more dynamic, plus it organizes the layout so that there’s enough space to fit a large amount of content onto one page. Sliders in here are not only intelligently and most accurately used for images but also for general content and graphics. With new styles and techniques being developed, our designers produce sliders of miscellaneous types. You can spot some creative arrows, large buttons, nice borders, slider layout that flows nicely with the thumbnail selector, tilted image displays or image sliders with text to accompany each item – all our slider layouts are very creative with a smooth transition effects. Check out!
One more addition, awhile back we showcased here a list of jQuery slider tutorials you can see and take on your designer’s board.
Grafix WordPress Theme
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Weboo WordPress Theme
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House Style Joomla 1.6 Template
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Maestro Flash Site 8 Template
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