This one starts with a news that’s sort of a bad news. We’ve decided to stop a Facebook feedback promo a couple of days earlier than planned, because of a substantial amount of spam messages from India and comments from Russian guys informing people on how they can steal stuff and commit crimes. It’s a shame that such a great discussion was ruined by a bunch of kids who didn’t have any better things to do.
But let’s look at the bright side – the winners will receive their prizes earlier than expected. Basically, their weekends will start with good news about the freebie they’re receiving from us. Since there was around 140 comments on that feed, we’ll just consider there was 150 of them which means we’re giving away 3 free templates, 8 50% discounts and 15 30% discounts. Today we’ll deliver all of the prizes. The free templates go to Jeremy Mayhew, Anton Permadi and Lisa Westhafer. Here’s what their feeback was:
I’m mostly a web developer, so design is not my thing. I need to work quick because more clients means more income, and when you’re a self employed single father of two you need to do more with less time. Your templates are so unique and well put together can easily customize them for my clients. Template monster allows me to do more for my clients, and happy clients means better business for the little guy.
I think of all the designs that you have the most remarkable is the facebook template. Unique, stylish, eyecatching, and outstanding. I hope it can be developed toward face’COMMERCE’book templates that supports the online store, i’m very sure it will be more useful for business people like me and others of course.
Template Monster was the first website template site I had discovered when creating my first business website years ago. Now, as an Entrepreneur with several businesses/websites and a Marketing Consultant to Digital Advertising Agencies, I’ve used Template Monster over the years for everything from inspiration, to development tools, to referrals to outside Vendors. I’ve recommended Template Monster to numerous clients – thank you for making me look fantastic as an advisor by passing along your creativity and value!
Thanks again everyone! See you on our next Facebook promos!
Our massive WordPress 20% Discount Promo is almost over. That means it’s almost your last chance to take advantage of a fantastic 20% discount and be gratefully rewarded for the purchases of our fascinating WordPress Themes.
These designs have not only premium layouts that you’ll certainly love, but also the awesome functionality. Built to fully utilize the extended capabilities of WordPress blogging platform, the WordPress Theme we offer introduces a set of useful features. The latest themes made for WordPress 3.x version even feature deep content linking and plugings/widgets included, to make your WordPress website extremely easy to manage even in its smallest elements.
Speaking of the WordPress templates featured below, we’ve compiled this variety to show you the most interesting and multifarious WordPress layout solutions that utilize prominent design trends. Our team of expert designers has developed these solid layouts to make a tedious process of site building easy for you. Along with blog designs that are totally essential on the internet today, we also develop WordPress themes for web galleries, design studios, professional architecture studios, and other kinds of businesses. In here, we may see bold and contrasting design choices which however do not make the layout feel any cluttered. Besides, there’s a wide variety of minimal designs that focus on awesomely rendered lapidary style. With just enough variety of WordPress designs you are sure to find the best one for your website! The only thing left is to hurry up and take advantage of a marvelous 20% discount – and better do it sooner as in a day our promo is over!
Gyoen Web and UI Design
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Hey all – are you in the mood for something positively different? We’re used to see vertical websites with fixed width and variable height, depending on the length of the content available within the main layer. Today’s round up highlights horizontal websites being a great new way to create unique web experiences. Current examples don’t make you scroll up and down, but flip things around and use horizontal scroll bar or horizontal scrolling.
When it comes to usability of horizontal scrolling websites, they’re not universally embraced by the web design community. Such designs seem to be non intuitive and inconvenient to use compared to conventionally styled vertical sites. However, horizontal types of web pages work superbly well with portfolios or photo galleries due to being enormous and panoramic for images. They are just ideal to bring across quirky, bold messages that will create an impact to the visitors, at the same time keeping the writing to a minimum. This technique is employed by a bunch of the websites – see most interesting compiled below:
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jQuery being an awesome light-weight solution for virtually any kind of website functionality, continues surprising with its unique capabilities for simplifying the life of web developers and web users. There are tons of various solutions provided by this efficient and versatile tool. Also, we are sure that thousands of times you have seen various tag clouds, though may have never thought how difficult it is to develop a light-weight, visually appealing and reliable solution for this small website feature. Tag cloud helps your visitors to easily browse through the main topics of your website, which is very useful for your website’s reputation – not to mention the SEO effect of it. Today’s 7 tag cloud solutions demonstrate us the power of jQuery mixed up with the beauty of CSS. In this collection we have presented detailed tutorials with downloadable source codes as well as simple jQuery plugins that are also quite easy to integrate.
1. jQuery Tag Cloud
This magnificent tutorial tells us how to build a basic tag cloud which retrieves the tags to display as part of an AJAX request directly after page load. As you can see you’ll get a very attractive and tiny widget that can be easily integrated to any design.
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2. 3D Tag Sphere
Eye-catching 3D tag cloud would enliven your design with dynamics. You can easily control tags with the mouse. Tags are scaled according to the weight assigned to them and fade into the background as they rotate.
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Hyper charged with warm feelings after St. Valentine’s Day? We know a perfect way you can share these feelings, and benefit from this kind of sharing. From now on and for the following week we’re holding a brand new Facebook Feedback Promo for our audience on Facebook. Specifically for this new campaign, we created a new Facebook feedback page where everyone can read the official terms and leave their feedbacks (which is actually how one enters the promo – the person has to post a comment and should follow TemplateMonster’s Facebook fan page).
So to take part in the promo you just need to post a feedback or a testimonial saying why you love our products and what’s that special you appreciate about TemplateMonster as a company. You may mention as well which aspects in the overall process of working with our team you like the most, or what were the conveniences you experienced when working with our templates. Any positive feedback will do.
We start this initiative to receive responses and feedbacks from our customers and to extend our information exchange. If you are willing to leave a feedback, please visit our Facebook Page to read additional details about the terms of the current promo and post your testimonial. Note that the more comments we receive, the more prizes we’ll give away! And you know what – there’s much to struggle for! Here’re the benefits hidden behind:
- out of each 50 commentators, we’ll choose one person to get a free template from TemplateMonster;
- out of every 100 commentators we’ll randomly choose winners of one of five 50% discount codes;
- also, out of every 100 commentators we’ll choose winners of one of ten 30% discount codes;
Next Tuesday will be the day when we’ll announce the results of our Facebook Feedback promo and will give away all the goodies you guys will have won by that time. Alright now, hurry up to the Facebook feedback page – we’d love to know what our customers have to say about TemplateMonster products and customer service. So you may go ahead and drop your comments, and good luck to you all!
It’s upon February 14th that we’ve decided to bring you a round-up of Adobe After Effects tutorials to draw inspiration from when designing your own pretty romantic and lovable Valentine’s Day inspired works. With After Effects, this highly popular tool among the designers, you can enhance video production, produce vibrant visual effects as well as dynamic and expressively animated motion and web graphics. There’s no doubt that all people should adopt this perfect opportunity to create something fanciful, elegant, and imaginative for year’s loving event. Then, here goes the compilation for you:
Evolution Preview
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How to Create Glowing Elegant Lines
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With the new major upgrades being introduced to Facebook pages, a new design gives us better ways to share interests and activities. Sort of. Even though this new update is just one day old, there’s been a lot of controversy around it already. What we’ll try to analyze is how this update will affect the custom FBML pages we all love so much, along with what it will bring to businesses marketing themselves on Facebook in general.
First of all, to all of those who are against this update – you have to give Facebook a credit. For sure the guys have made the entire profile a more compelling visual experience and found some perfect facilities to keep the activity on the web page. The content field is now more visible and it has become much more convenient to use and navigate around. Plus, it is now possible to feature photos of page’s most recent experiences at the top of the wall. As for the navigation, it has been moved to the sidebar – so the navigation bar now resides on the left-hand side of the page. We cannot tell that’s a good move (since before it was highly comfortable and easy to jump to different pages using the tabs in a header), however that space is available for the main area content, including your FBML pages.
So what do we have? Here’s a couple of updates we consider to be the most important:
- the navigation tabs now reside on the left-hand side of the page, under the profile image;
- more visible content field;
- line for profile images at the top of the wall page;
- wall takes center stage;
We also want to officially inform you that all of our Facebook templates launched a couple of days before are fully compatible with the new changes Facebook fan pages undergone. Moreover, upon implementing our designs with the new Facebook pages they will become more vivid than they were before, because they’re higher in a browser space. Here’s how we can visually illustrate the changes having been made to Facebook in case you’re using one of the custom page templates from TemplateMonster. We decided to feature the old and the new variants of a particular theme, have a look:
The old one
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The new one
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What do you boys and girls think of this recent move from Facebook? Do you like the changes or not? Will it in any way affect the way you maintain your Facebook brand page? Let us know in the comments and be sure to check out as well our newest standard Facebook HTML Templates marked by both high performance and high quality!
Without a doubt Facebook has gained a huge popularity among businesses and brands by introducing custom fan pages. By now, we are well aware of the Facebook fan page notion, which in fact has become an absolutely essential thing for business owners interested in promoting various projects online on Facebook.
By utilizing Facebook Markup Language or most commonly known FBML that supports HTML & CSS, many people having a commercial or personal business are taking advantage of this aspect adding to their custom fan pages various stylized text, links, buttons, and images that can help direct the visitors into conversion stream. This lets them create great things that will define their brands, make their fan page prominent among others and provide some high value to followers.
We should mention that there are no clear design standards for custom Facebook pages – different people and different brands have their own custom Facebook pages with different styles, designs and of course their content. Still, there are plenty of good practices and that is what our today’s article explores. This showcase takes a look at some highly effective and well developed Facebook designs which make up the modern trends in this filed. The following examples put the projects they represent ahead of the curve and define such trends.
- Content Hidden from Non-Fans
- Extensive Multimedia Integration
- Eye-Catching and Prominent Profile Pictures
- Manifold Tabs Being Presented Within a Tabbed Interface
- Ample Amount of Custom Images on Facebook Fan Pages
- Call to Action
- Galleries and Animation on Facebook Fan Pages
- Featuring Other Social Streams
Content Hidden from Non-Fans
It has become widely applied to hide some interesting content on Facebook page until the visitors like the custom fan page. This is a great way to entice people to become a follower of the page, since a ‘fan-only’ content becomes visible only when they click ‘Like’ button. Hiding content creates curiosity and in this case it also helps generate a larger fan base for the particular custom fan page.
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Any kind of error is psychologically associated with negative emotions, because something allegedly went wrong. We think that even though an error itself is not a good thing, the way it’s being presented must be beautiful and charged with positive emotions. Nice and user-friendly 404 pages may help convince a visitor to stay on the website and finally find what he or she were looking for. I’m sure that you have seen many various blog posts collecting examples of 404 pages but today we are happy to present you a new portion of these pages that we think you haven’t seen before. If you don’t have any custom design for the 404 page at your website than you should hurry up and do that immediately because it is very fun and extremely useful. We sincerely hope that our picks of original 404 pages will inspire you to create your own original 404 page that will make your visitors smile.
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There is just no need to say that Facebook is a high-profile and most visited social network that has a huge influence on our lives. Joining this promising medium is currently an essential marketing effort for all businesses from around the world, and now you can also have a nicely designed custom brand page on Facebook – TemplateMonster starts offering premium quality Facebook Templates. These professional templates were developed specifically for website owners who would like to join the Facebook community and make their online project easily known by its means.
So, if Facebook guys have decided to add an ability to create custom landing pages for businesses and brands and extend some content beyond the profile page, why not use this excellent chance and get a very powerful visual tool to build a community inside of Facebook that will raise your brand awareness. With our Facebook Templates it’s now extremely easy to grow your Facebook fans count faster and get more potential customers for your business.
However if you’re new to this field, make sure we provide a guidance you need. Every Facebook Template is provided with the source files and goes with step-by-step instructions on how to install a Facebook Template. These designs are highly customizable and supported by all available browsers so have no doubt – in no time you’ll manage the installation and implement any changes you need with minimum efforts. Besides, check out some of the additional benefits of our Facebook Template:
- premium designs based on TemplateMonster’s best selling products;
- stunning Flash elements in every template;
- XML files to easily edit all Flash content;
- easy installation on Facebook.
Keep in mind that all our Facebook Templates upon using them and applying as Facebook pages can be equipped and customized with a lot of different widgets and applications. This gives you even more complete website experience with Facebook. So, don’t miss your chance to add an amazing look for your account and make your fan page unique, creative and stylish on Facebook. Browse our collections of Facebook Flash Templates, Facebook Flash CMS Templates, and Facebook HTML Templates and be sure to find the proper design that speaks for your project!
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