We have featured many font styles in the past, but today you’ll see even better compilation of fonts which are available for free and are interesting enough to take a closer look at. These expressive new fonts that have been unveiled during the past several months, were designed to be well suited for web or print, in particular headlines, logo and flyer design. Varying from delicately elegant, confidently bold or finesse light, they can be used for some passages of text as well as a fancy display types. We can also say that all of them are characterized by excellent legibility, well-finished geometric designs, consistency of form – and that lends to a wide variety of applications. In the overall, the fonts to be featured today are made to look sleek and smooth when typed out and they are sure to give the same feel to any work they’re placed on. Now experience these different exquisite outlines.
Gota
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HERO
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Many of the web pages we see today use the original design concepts in their base that help them to become visually attractive and memorable. The aim of every single web page design is to present the business idea in the comprehensible and appealing way. Sometimes it takes a lot of time and other resources to achieve this excellent result, but you can always choose the professionally done ready-made solution for your successful online project. Today we are happy to announce the long-awaited freebie – Free Website Template for Web Design Studio. It is this freebie itself that will help you to achieve the desired result – the top-notch project that will be in the focus of public attention. Feel free to use this freebie to share your stunning portfolio and tell everyone about your studio, but at first check out free template live demo!
Free Website Template for Web Design Studio:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Just click on the image above and download HTML source files from this post. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template for Web Design Studio download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template for Web Design Studio with PSD files (155MB)
Download Free Website Template for Web Design Studio without PSD (1,94MB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
Don’t forget to check out the ultimate collection of Web Design Web Templates and Web Design Flash Templates from TemplateMonster.com!
What’s up today? We’ve actually compiled a whole array of creative grunge tutorials so you can infuse staggering grungy styles into your artworks using Photoshop. Lately the grunge effect is known to be an enormously popular trend in web design, and basically it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. So if you want to really wild on your grunge designs, you may now explore different techniques in Photoshop that can give your artwork some textured, aged and uneven looks with rusting metal signs, dirty spots, scorched borders, or overall distressed accents. By the way, some time ago our good friends from Templates.com blog have published a post with as many as 900 Free Grunge Photoshop Brushes, so if you’re really into the grunge design style you should definitely take a look at these. Now jump into the mix to get mod unkempt appearances! This brimful range of brilliant grunge styles is definitely worth a shot.
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Head blow off effect
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Designing a typographic concept poster
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jQuery is a real treasure for web developers and front-end users because it makes life easier for both of them. It has became a good tradition to share some useful jQuery plugins with you guys, and today is the day when the new piece of these goodies will be revealed. The following collection is a mix of fresh and new plugins that certainly would make your website a better place to be. We want to say thanks to jQuery community that puts its efforts in creating more new plugins and developing amazing jQuery framework, pushing it to the limit. We also want to say that you really rock guys! Well, enough ranting – let’s get acquainted with our newcomers.
1. Website Tour with jQuery
As you may have guessed this jQuery plugin allows you to create an excellent interactive tour through your website that will help your visitors find out more information about it. The tour has a very user-friendly navigation that helps users browse it with comfort.
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2. jqDnR
Add the power and simplicity of drag and drop technology to your website by installing this light-weight jQuery plugin. This is a great way to enhance your website’s usability and make it more user-friendly.
There’re a lot of websites that have a lot of visitors daily, and basically the more visitors a website has the more difficult it is for the servers to handle the crowd – this whole thing slows down your website. There are multiple ways the website owners can handle this situation, one of them is by using the CDN technology (CDN stands for Content Delivery Network). The number of websites using CDN service grows every year and this sort of positive trend once again proves that CDN is a very promising and useful technology which helps you improve your website’s performance.
So, why should you use CDN network for your website? Frankly speaking CDN networks are the only perfect solution for the website with a lot of traffic and for the projects that care about global availability of their website content. So, the first reason is speed. Yes, it helps you to save priceless seconds that are so rashly wasted while your page is being loaded from the originating server. Secondly, CDN gives you the ability to have a huge network of servers all over the world that deliver your page faster and in a more reliable way according to their geographical proximity to the respective users. And the third reason is the bandwidth – if you own a blog or some popular project that receives tons of traffic, CDN servers will help you stay online and keep your content actually visible to all of your priceless users. But these are just a couple of major advantages that CDN technology gives you, now let’s take a closer look at it.
Content delivery network (CDN) is a simple system of computers that stores copies of various content (images, audio and video files) to maximize the odds that the users will freely access the data. The technology that stands behind CDN is placing geographically dispersed “caching servers” for covering maximum of various locations all around the world. The point is that when you host everything only on your own hosting servers (html files, scripts, images) it increases the number of times the files are being addressed on your server, which slows down your website and increases page load time. But by creating a number of sub-domains for images, videos and scripts and placing all these on CDN edge servers you’ll receive a very good result due to the parallel download effect.
Types of services
- Streaming – it is not a secret that video streaming requires a lot of bandwidth, and if you are going to deliver a high quality video content CDN will be the best solution for you.
- Downloading – for those websites that offer various types of software and other heavyweight content it would be reasonable to upload the content to CDN servers which will increase files’ download speed.
- Acceleration – CDN technology is using a huge number of backbones that naturally accelerate content delivery. The most popular method used by many websites is delivering graphic files via CDN servers and HTML files via the customer’s server.
- Server-Side Processing – some large web projects also use CDN servers to deliver their scripts (Java, ASP etc.) which is also a great method to reduce the numbers of times that the customer’s server is being addressed and therefore decreases page load time.
- Peer-to-peer Processing – the first P2P project was the famous Napster, and now bitTorrents are using peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. So, as you may have guessed this type of processing requires you to have a software installed on the user’s computer (like Torrent clients).
CDN Providers
Commercial CDN providers
Free CDN prodivers
As a popular open source solution, Joomla has a very flexible architecture and ever more developers build various components and modules for Joomla, which makes it more and more popular among other platforms. This time we will show you the top 10 free Joomla extensions you could use in case you’re looking to add a photo gallery to your Joomla project, they will surely help you take your Joomla website to the next level. The biggest advantage is that by using the following simple solutions you can easily add awesome image galleries for your Joomla-powered website without any hassle at all, plus totally for free. Yet note that all these extensions, except for Ignite Gallery, are for non-commercial use, so you may want to pay attention to the respective license terms.
Our today’s range of Joomla extensions is sure to give you slick new simple ways to display your photo album or personal portfolio and additionally you’ll have flexibility in setting up your Joomla photo gallery to be able to change it the way you like. That will help to reduce the amount of space wasted on the web page and highlight your most prominent works. So if you would like to use image gallery extensions on your Joomla-powered website, see the options we have for you:
1. Sigplus
Simple and powerful extension that delivers a great set of useful features including lightbox, slider and carousel options among others. Also you can configure many important features such as image margin, border, padding, slider/rotator orientation, animation speed and so on.
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2. Phoca Gallery
This extremely popular and efficient Joomla photo gallery solution has a bunch of cool features that will make your photo gallery simply perfect. Lightboxes, slideshows, shadowbox effects and many other wonderful options are available with using Phoca Gallery.
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Alright, people. Today on our blog we’re going to tell you about our blog itself. Perhaps it’s not that much fun as our regular publications, but if you’re a blogger or an owner of virtually any sort of web-oriented business, this is definitely something you should take a look at.
As some of you may know, some time ago TemplateMonster blog has joined a new network of design blogs and resources. The network was gathered by AdBoomer.com, they handle ad sales for us and so far there are 6 design blogs and resources on that network. The point behind it all is providing an advertising solution to the companies interested in working with TemplateMonster blog and other blogs and resources that have the audiences kind of similar to the one we have. What’s in it for you – you will ask? Well, from now on we’ll have other people negotiating about the ads sold on TemplateMonster blog, while we will be able to concentrate on delivering web design and development content to you. Plus, if you want to place your ads there, the following info will also be useful.
All of the resources currently available on AdBoomer are our good friends, which is basically how they got there. But this is not the point. The point is that in case you’re looking to be advertised on TemplateMonster blog (or Templates.com blog, or DesignFloat social network) you will now have to address AdBoomer.com and you may be sure you’ll receive good results in terms of what you spend vs. what you receive. There are multiple solutions available there, for basically all price ranges (the cheapest offer available there is a $50/mo banner placement on a 100K+ blog, and there are pretty good discounts available there pretty much all the time). Plus, in addition to the ordinary banners, there are alternate solutions also available – including a featured entry placement on a 25,000+ daily impressions DesignFloat social network, which we have tried ourselves and were absolutely delighted about (go ahead and learn more about awesome results we’ve received by working with DesignFloat featured entry option in a case study on DesignFloat blog).
By the way, as you can see, TemplateMonster and a number of other commercial projects that we’re friends with (such as Moto CMS, VideoSmash etc.) are also using this advertising network, which is yet another proof making the AdBoomer advertising one heck of a good deal.
Another important thing about this AdBoomer network is that it’s open for new relevant blogs and resources to join. And joining them is 100% free, there’s no any kind of entrance fee or anything like that. But we’ve got to say that there are certain requirements – not only does it have to be relevant resource, or a design blog, it also has to meet certain requirements in terms of traffic, content and products it possibly sells. So in case you own a project you think will fit, than you have to know that in addition to a quality targeted traffic you may receive from AdBoomer ads, you may also join the network and get paid for the ads you’ll publish.
In case you have any questions about the new project we’re into, or you want to place your ads, or you want to apply for being a part of the new advertising network, please contact AdBoomer representatives at the follwing address: “sales — at — adboomer — dot — com” (btw, if you’ll mention that you’ve been referred by TemplateMonster blog, you’ll receive a 20% discount on ads purchase). Good luck!
The eCommerce nugget created by French web developers has unleashed its latest version indexed 1.4. The long-awaited release has brought us many useful features and options that from now will be available to all PrestaShop fans. If you are not familiar with this excellent software you might be interested in reading the post that’s we’ve published some months ago called “A Deeper Look Into PrestaShop Shopping Cart” where you can find more precise information about what this eCommerce software basically is, its major features, advantages, as well as a short comparison with other popular eCommerce software. Also, we’ve added some most beautiful design solutions implemented for PrestaShop.
But today let’s take a closer look at this long-anticipated PrestaShop version 1.4. In general this release contains over 65 new features, according to the official sources. Along with a bunch of new modules you can enjoy some extremely efficient and well-timed features that are actually new (not just the updated old ones). We’ve tried to separate the options and improvements that are important for our audience from the web design point of view, and also have featured some fundamental functional changes to our list.
Web Design Features of PrestaShop 1.4
- live edit – you can edit your store’s design theme directly via Front-Office using “drag’n'drop” technology. This is very comfortable and user-friendly, it illustrates the customization process and simplifies the UI in general. Definitely a very good feature.
- fancybox – there is a new method has been used for the visualization window of product photos. The old ThickBox is replaced by FancyBox solution making this procedure more sophisticated.
- product page previews – you can use the opportunity to preview the CMS pages (product page) before actually posting them online and of course while editing them directly via Front-Office.
- three logos – interesting and useful feature that allows you to set different logos for your store’s emails, Front-Office and invoices.
- Back-Office themes – two new themes are added now so, you can enjoy new style of your Back-Office.
More than a week ago, TemplateMonster has arranged a fund raiser to help the disaster victims in Japan recover from the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. Now when the donation campaign is over, we’d like to inform you that with the help of our unanimous community we’ve collected $2,022 and transferred this money to a special fund on GlobalGiving.com – a famous worldwide donations and fundraising medium which is in our case responsible for the further transferring of the funds to the proper organizations in Japan.
The overall fundraising initiative implied that from every template sale, during a period from March 16th 2011 and until March 22nd 2011, TemplateMonster donated $1 to the Japan Tsunami fund, plus some of our customers optionally donated another $5 while buying any of our products.
Below, you can see a receipt that we’ve got from GlobalGiving.com upon money transfer. This is an official acknowledgment of all our donations being received and further transferred to the disaster relief in Japan.
Now we’d like to express our infinite gratitude for all of you who joined us in this fundraising for Japan. It’s very nice to know that people from all over the world are ready to support Japan and the Japanese people in need. The whole TemplateMonster team really appreciates being a part of the community that makes a difference.
In our previous blog series about free Tumblr themes we’ve already found out what Tumblr actually is and what it does. That it is quite flexible, powerful, and most importantly simple to work with blog platform which can be used to put categorized types of fully-variable information in a blog format. And today TemplateMonster is happy to announce the launch of our new product type – premium Tumblr themes. They’re all of premium design, which is pretty much a common thing for all TemplateMonster products, and they’re also coded by TemplateMonster’s best professionals. The rest is similar to other Tumblr themes you may have seen – our themes are extremely easy to customize and to install on Tumblr.
Many companies online are currently using Tumblr instead of setting up on their own weblogs, maybe because Tumblog is much easier to maintain compared to a full-fledged blog site. Overall Tumblr as a blog platform has lots of amenities. It’s very easy to get your own blog just by signing up for an account, plus it lets you fully customize and change just about every aspect of the appearance of your blog’s theme by editing its easy source code. And one of the best things about Tumblr medium is how easy it is to try out new styles on your enormously flexible Tumblog to give it a totally new look and functionality.
Please feel free to take a look at our first 5 premium Tumblr themes:
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