The winners of the 2009 edition of the Website of the Year awards were revealed on December 10, 2009. And now rejoice you crowd – for we have won in our category!
You got it right! TemplateMonster has now become the proud possessor of the “Website of the Year 2009″ champion’s title!
For you to know, “Website of the Year” is the people’s-choice website award initiative by online research agency called Metrixlab. This year there were 221 websites nominated in over 18 categories, and more than 1,500,000 votes were cast during the period between November 3rd and December 8th.
By overall public opinion, TemplateMonster has proven to be the excellent Technology site. And in this category we’ve won two prizes having become the ‘Best Website of Year 2009′ for the highest average score on content, navigation and design, and the ‘Most Popular Website’ having the highest number of votes. Cool, huh?
For sure, this honorary status has certain grounds since all these years, from the moment TemplateMonster has been founded, with total efficiency we work for you, guys, to deliver the most solid results when it comes to our services and product range. And we’ll keep it up in what follows, for it’s our true passion to be the Internet’s rock star providing excellent templates!
Of course, we’d like to express our infinite gratitude to those who voted for TemplateMonster, we very much appreciate that! And without a doubt TemplateMonster won’t leave this favor unanswered for future holds a lot of delightful things to offer.
Ok, today it’s our blog’s turn to host a brand new discount (that’s one of those daily Christmas discounts we’ve announced earlier). We’re sure you can’t wait to use it so we’re not going to torture you with long intros. Here comes the discount code:
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In order to use it copy this code and go to templates gallery. Pick the product you want to apply the discount to and proceed to checkout. And that’s where you’ll find the field that you will have to paste the code you’ve previously copied. The price will be accordingly reduced. Just make sure you use that code today because tomorrow the code expires.
Christmas is on the doorstep, and it’s just about the time to come up with some nice gift ideas! To make current Christmas time more memorable and appealing, we decided to present a whole new set of promos offering precious discounts daily, to bring in that special holiday mood into the web.
On this marvelous time of the year TemplateMonster and some of its devoted partners will give out a new discount each day, though it may well be even more than one a day. Yet what kinds of discounts and when they will be scattered is not yet disclosed (for the sake of some pleasant intrigue!). However, the whole number of discount offers will not affect each other, and therefore the company’s customers can take advantage of all of them. Note as well that the weekends aren’t exceptions, we constantly work on bringing new bonuses to you.
When it comes to the members, let’s mention the companies ready to be involved. These are ТemplateМonster, IconDemon, ProClipart, VideoSmash, JustHost, e-OnlineData, and perhaps some others will join in later. So, to be in the know with all current events, you are welcome to subscribe for the TemplateMonster newsletter, follow us on Twitter and check our blog daily.
Oh, by the way, today we’ve given out the first promocode in our newsletter. So, in case you’re not subscribed yet you might want to do so – there’s a signup form on TemplateMonster homepage.
And a happy head-start on Christmas!
Guys, we haven’t even expected that our free 7-in-1 Joomla Template would become one of the most demanded freebies provided by TemplateMonster. By this moment about 1,500 people have downloaded this stunning Joomla design available in 7 different variations. And that is on the very first day of the launch!
You see, we are extremely happy that our gift appeared to be so much popular among our beloved audience. In case there’s someone who – for some reasons – missed this event we strongly suggest them to hurry up for this exclusive offer. Do it right away since you can download 7-in1 Joomla Template absolutely for free. And by the way keep in mind other free items we have scattered a bit earlier, they could came in very handy for you:
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This year Santa’s a little early with one of his presents but we’re sure you don’t really mind, do you? Besides, early December is a perfect time for a present like this. We’re talking about a free 7-in-1 Joomla template that in addition to the awesome default design theme also contains a whole lot of 6 holiday customizations that you may apply to your website throughout the year. And now is the perfect time to apply the Christmas theme which is also inside the package you download for free. Check out the customizations available there:
Default theme:
Christmas theme:
And other holiday customizations that you get:
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Ready to get immensely cool offer from Videosmash? Let it roll!
From now on, there is no need to buy the whole number of effects from our partner Videosmash.com, but purchase the pack from the most versatile category available there! This gives incredible benefit in price while it becomes competitively profitable. That’s what is called a real concern for the customers!
Moreover, in case you are the client of Template Monster you gain even more having the chance to snatch this exclusive Abstract Video Effects Pack for as low as $29! The half of the declared $60 full price!
The fact is that Videosmash is a new project and the customers of Template Monster constitute considerable part of it. Some of them expressed a desire to purchase only those effects they need, instead of the whole variety of effects on different topics. Besides, it’s cheaper and comfortable.
Thus, we have considered all the wishes and separated the products on packs. And now TemplateMonster customers are able to purchase the most popular pack for ridiculously low price – only $29, as we have mentioned. Rather tempting offer, isn’t it?
So, gather speed to succeed!
Recently we’ve been informed that TemplateMonster website has been nominated by the WebsiteOfTheYear.co.in project for the Website of The Year 2009 award. Of course it feels good to be nominated but it will feel even better if we win. So that’s what we need your help for (we think that would be easy for you guys after having received all these countless discounts, promos and freebies from us – not to mention the premium templates). Everything’s simple – just vote for us on our voting page and rate the website as you consider to be right. After that confirm your vote via email and you’re done with your help 
But the best thing is that every participant who votes for the Website of the Year 2009 award may win a Samsung 32” LCD TV or a Sony PSP Go! Game console from WebsiteOfTheYear.co.in – just for voting. So this whole thing really seems like something that’s worth your attention. Now go ahead and cast these votes for us!
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Ahh, it feels so good to be one of the first website to have launched the Christmas design customizations this holiday season. And we’re sure you’re gonna love these – after all it’s the Christmas spirit, you can’t fight it once it’s there! Here’s what the website looks like currently:
check out TemplateMonster website or click the image to see the “full size live demo”
As you can see, we’ve customized a company logo, functional area background and tiling area. Plus notice the little things such as header links, the Affiliate program banner and some smaller functional signs (the search form button text, the featured products column etc.). So in case you’re a website owner you might want to start thinking on your own Christmas customizations, hopefully our little design hints will inspire you for something cheerful!
And don’t forget to let us know what you think about this design customization in the comments section for this entry.
Ok, guys, it’s high time to share some very exclusive bits of information related to constantly upgrading technologies in the field of web design. We discuss here the non-stop media innovations, namely the newly launched AfterEffects Intros – video templates for TV and video professionals, developed by TemplateMonster.
Newly-crafted AfterEffects Intros were designed specifically to fascinate you with professional Adobe AfterEffects efficiency. And if you want to create professionally distinguished videos with intensely modified design approach, resort to these high-tech templates which can be a good solution for video ads production, special effects creating, or for video post-production and editing. Another direction that this media product range may be used for is for TV and broadcasting.
Plus, AfterEffects Intros are available in full HD quality (HD 1080) and their flexible resolution is perfect for maximum effect of highly-detailed rendering! Therefore, you may apply these templates as well for web purposes and for Flash video creation – which is what our ordinary Flash intros are meant. So, in other words this product is good for much more ways of use than the ‘old’ Flash intros.
Oh, almost forgot – please feel free to watch the AfterEffects Intros video presentation to learn more about this new product.
As you may know, TemplateMonster is a solid company that does not talk at random being fully responsible for all the tasks assigned. That is the way it was with the website redesign of the Hotel ‘Goldener Baer’ in Vienna. Let’s brush it all up!
You may remember originally published post that cited the worst website designs of world hotels that are actually great. That caused a tide of moot points!
After having censured all those indeed unsuccessful design efforts, we decided to actually do something about it to change the course of the events. In fact, we offered our cost free redesign services to any of those websites that stroke the aforementioned list. The lucky one appeared to be ‘Goldener Baer’ hotel website!
So, we took up the deal, and that was enthralling, we should say. The new version of the website lived up to our expectations.
For now, allow us to remind you of what the initial look of the website we’ve redesigned was:
What we have done is that we completely modified the layout, including graphical design of subpages, coding, and the addition of new sections. And even that was not enough. The structure of the website as well required some functional changes. So, we worked on it a little bit having replenished it with extra texts, added an interactive map to show hotel location on Google Maps, user-friendly navigation menu, and much more. We’ve also added functional blocks that were supposed to be the important links to apply.
And what we have eventually received – there’s a world of difference! Have a look:
That is it! Not so long ago this project was successfully completed. So far as we have enlivened the discounts for Hotels category templates, it is appropriate to mention that supersonic redesign of ours!
