They say that there can never be too much of something good. Indeed, after having launched the “Changing the Web” global social responsibility campaign we decided that launching another similar project would also be a good idea. That’s when we came across the KillerStartUps.com project. When we saw what KillerStartUps was doing we decided to launch another campaign proudly entitled “Enhancing the Future Web.”

The idea was to cooperate with the KillerStartUps project in the following ways: they choose a “Killer of the Week” winner; Template Monster in turn offers one of the four winners of each month a free redesign opportunity. We then proceed just as we have in “Changing the Web” – providing premium design for the rookies. We can’t wait to see the happy faces of these promising newcomers when they see what we’ll do for their designs.

Recently TemplateMonster set its design team to a practical and creative task. What I’m talking about is TM’s tradition for helping to redesign community-oriented websites for a more attractive and functional web presence.OpenSource.org is a newly redesigned and rebranded resource, but it is actually one of the Internet’s old-timers that has helped many new users and merchants to succeed in eCommerce. And OpenSource.org is still a huge favorite out there!

TM has taken on projects of this kind before, and we have a special affection for www.OpenSource.org . Our experts have also recently redesigned anybrowser.org absolutely free of charge. Both anybrowser.org and opensource.org have done a great deal of good for internet users. We at TemplateMonster know that it was totally fitting to help these great guys to improve their designs. We just decided to assist them in upgrading their layout.

And along these same lines of helping out the people who help others out: we are always ready to help charity organizations and funds - or other altruistic websites - in their missions by offering to redesign their websites. After all we want to be the Internet’s design leader, and to do it responsibly. Are you next?

TemplateMonster Team

Template Monster has provided the best Webpage Templates worldwide. We have occasionally communicated with charitable organizations about their needs for a particular website project. Although many of these charitable institutions are large, well established concerns, some of them are not. When we discovered that some small startup charitable organizations had little if any resources from which they could establish a web presence we realized a very important need in communities everywhere.

We already knew that the web is a very cost effective way to become known in any community. With this in mind we realized that if these new charities did not get some immediate and real assistance they would face a much more difficult road in helping solve the human problems that they were trying to overcome.

Template Monster made the decision to assist some of the neediest of these charities in doing their vital work. We decided to give them the template that they wanted to use to establish their own website. On July 5, 2006 we issued a press release and the “Support Religious” Program was announced. This program has helped many new charities and church websites begin, many in this last month with the help of our program. Here are three that are newly operational.

The World by Train. This interesting quest, taken on by three young men on a mission, involves 6 charities and 3 world records. These three guys, Hamish, Simon and James, put together a project whereby they donate all funds raised to UNICEF, Save The Children, World Wildlife Fund for Nature, World Society for the Protection of Animals, Cancer Research UK, and Greenpeace. While this is very admirable, they will coincidentally attempt to set three world records in the Guinness Book of World Records: 1) The greatest number of countries visited in a single journey by train (new category), 2) The greatest distance covered in a single journey by train (new category), and 3) The fastest circumnavigation by scheduled surface transport (new record). The designer of the website, Robert Burridge of Web Site King used Template Monster template #11077 as the basis for the final design.

John’s Golf Course - The Non Profit, No Greens Fees Course for the Handicapped. This project is about making sport and recreation available to the handicapped. The website has a lot of great promotional photos, my favorite is the photo of John with Terry Bradshaw. Kimberley Barreda, the Associate Editor at Active Living Magazine, is also the designer of the website. Kimberly used Template Monster template #6807. John Espinoza - a Special Olympics Golfer, did not have a lot of resources and Kimberley wanted to upgrade John’s website to something considerably more effective so they could further the work they had started together.

Internet School for Disabled Students is a wonderful idea. Anatoly Kochnev is the iEARN Uzbekistan Coordinator. iEARN Uzbekistan is a non-profit organization which helps students and teachers use ICT in the classroom. This new project, called Internet School for Disabled Students, allows disabled children from Uzbekistan to receive a free high school education. The School works as an online portal where the educational materials are made available. Anatoly used Template Monster template #3533.
It looks pretty good now, and even better if you read Russian.

Template Monster will continue to team up with these kinds of organizations in the future, making our awards-winning designs available to worthy causes for a better world.

The Template Monster Family

We have stopped this program for a while. All in all we received about 300 applications. About 150 of them have been processed already. The rest are still to be processed. We are sorry about possible delays. The problem is that Sergio Blanco is the only manager with our team on this program.

Though we have closed the program, it doesn’t mean that we are no longer planning to help religious organizations. If you believe that you need our help in redesigning your church website, please contact Sergio directly at blanco@templatemonster.com.

Template Monster’s Team

Four days ago, on the 8th of July, we launched a new program in order to support different religious organizations and communities. With this program, we offer religious templates for free download to any organization regardless of faith. The only requirement is that the organization or community should be helpful and supportive to other people.

Now we would like to inform you of the program’s progress. We have received approximately 150 applications so far. At the moment, we are sending three of our templates to three of these applicants. They are the first to receive templates to redesign their sites:

• Eric Warner from Girard Alliance Church
• Khaled El-Mahdi from Musulmonai
• Gary Johnson from Village Presbyterian Church

Join them! Get a top-notch template to redesign your community’s site!