Moto CMS Updated to ver. 1.6 – Check Out the New Features

For those of you who know our good friends and partners from MotoCMS, here is a good news: last Friday, November 11, 2011 Moto Flash CMS has been updated to version 1.6. This major release includes a bunch of new features (as well as the significant improvements to the existing ones) which were implemented to make your website development process better and easier. Of course all of the Flash CMS templates and Facebook Flash CMS templates that were previously available on TemplateMonster will also include the latest version of Moto CMS.

So what are the updates about? Basically, from now on it will be much easier to maintain fully-functional websites based on MotoCMS. Here are several of the most important features which come with the update.

1. Create password protected pages/popups

An ability to protect pages and popups with a password has been added as a response to numerous customers’ requests. Now it’s finally here. It’s a good way to diverse your content for different groups of customers.

Moto CMS Updated to ver. 1.6   Check Out the New Features

Password protected pages and popups will still be visible on your website menu but only vip visitors will be able to view their content.

Also there are some changes made to the ‘Preferences’ window. Due to the new options and design improvements, it becomes easier to adjust website settings and activate password protection to website pages and popups.

2. Contact Form widget improved

Within this update the ‘Advanced Contact Form’ widget has become even more advanced then before. Radio button and text area items will add the real communication experience to your website. It is the next step to more convenient and efficient communication between website owners and potential customers.

Moto CMS Updated to ver. 1.6   Check Out the New Features

3. Search widget added

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Drupal Website Templates with Extra Features

TemplateMonster unveils the new series of Drupal Templates with extra features. From now on all of the new Drupal templates that you’ll see on TemplateMonster will be made according to this new standard. The renewed Drupal designs are the first ones to be delivered with an extensive set of features that greatly expand the possibilities of layout, bring cleaner code along with some slick pieces of functionality. Drupal Templates will now bring more freedom to end users by letting them customize the layout exactly how they want. Basically our developers team does a big thing to upgrade the way you develop with Drupal, as now we offer nimble and capable product that will help our customers create a website quickly & easily and progress at peak efficiency.

So, what’s new in our Drupal Templates?

  • HTML5+CSS3 – every single Drupal 7 Template is now has a clean and nice HTML5/CSS3 code.
  • CSS3 animation – these templates include animations made with CSS3. This allows you to perform beautiful motion-based functions and enhance site visual attractiveness (not displayed in any version of Internet Explorer).
  • Simple content editing – integrated WYSIWYG editor makes content creation easy, while savvy users can show off their web geek skills.
  • Easy install – installation process in just a few clicks; everything is quick, easy and doesn’t require any special skills at all.
  • Backup – backs up/restores your Drupal database.
  • Social media capabilities – add links with icons pointing to your social media accounts.
  • Social sharing – push your content out via social channels including Twitter and Facebook and let users share their social activity streams.
  • Content mashups with views – create sliders, galleries, carousels of different structure and complexity.
  • Super fish menu – each template has a drop-down menu that can be moved and placed according to your preferences.
  • Google maps – take advantage of Google maps with easy-to-use and flexible interfaces.
  • Lightbox – clicking on a small thumbnail image will open a lightbox with an enlarged image.
  • FAQ – special content type will create and adjust the page with frequently asked questions.
  • Polls – content blocks and pages for polls.
  • Panels – let you create layouts of any complexity and put up the content in them.

These are the major new features coming with each renewed Drupal Template. We believe these will change your life greatly while you’ll be working with Drupal templates because you can now control the template in ways you haven’t seen in any Drupal template before. Now here comes another awesome thing for you all – we’ve added a free sample of extra features Drupal template, so you’re absolutely welcome to download it, install and play with it and then let us know your opinion about it!

Also, please look through all new Drupal Templates with extra features that bring extra features and lots of improvements. Much more of templates of this kind are coming up.

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PlusGroup Drupal 7 Theme

Drupal Website Templates with Extra Features

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Sobos Drupal 7 Theme

Drupal Website Templates with Extra Features

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Stock Images from DepositPhotos – New Offer at TemplateMonster

Stock Images from DepositPhotos   New Offer at TemplateMonsterStock photography is all vividly-colored, expressive, and broadly appealing. This product has grown big and popular among our customers, so we decided to give it its own place on our website. From now on with a purchase of any template at TemplateMonster you can order a package of 15 stock images of your choice for your website from DepositPhotos. This means that in addition to the stock images already included into your template design, you’ll be able to download 15 more images out of an assortment of 4,500,000 items available at DepositPhotos. You can pick whichever image you like from small to high resolution versions.

With the scope of stock photo uses being so large, we’ve also made a poll about whether or not include stock photography offer at TemplateMonster. It turned out that people would highly appreciate the possibility to get extra stock photos for their professional purposes at some cost-efficient price. Now we give you exceptional quality at low cost. This offer is available for $14 for every customer who makes a purchase at our website. But if you feel you don’t really need a template right now and just want to get the images offer separately, you can purchase 15 stock photos package from TemplateMonster for as low as $30.

But of course if you need a professional design for your project, we won’t mind that at all! Go ahead and visit our templates gallery, choose a template you like the most and you’ll be able to add the stock images pack from DepositPhotos to your cart and get it at a special discounted price. Don’t miss this big chance!

Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project

Inspite of the wide choice of various web design solutions with awesome extra features, you are always looking for the one that will fit your business ideas in the best way. Of course, wallet-friendly and ready-made solutions are at your preferences. The professional, simple and effective themes are of biggest demand, and today you are welcome to get one of them – Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project.

We hope that you will like it because of its powerful functional background and visually attractive layout. Such stylish solutions in dual color scheme are considered to be among the most widely used in web templates for business projects. jQuery slider in the header of this theme will not become a surprise for you, it’s rather another pleasant feature of this free website template. Here it is – free template live demo for you to check out the rest of cool characteristics of this theme. You are welcome to try the theme we are providing you today and start your own profitable online business on its basis!

Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project:

Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project

As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project 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 with jQuery Slider for Business Project with PSD files (9,18MB)
Download Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project without PSD (778KB)

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.

Free Website Template with jQuery Slider for Business Project

jQuery Animation in Navigation Menu [TUTORIALS]

It’s needless to say that navigation menu is the cornerstone of any website. Its design and functionality deeply affects the positive experience for the visitors during the time spent on your website. Due to the rapid development of web technologies during the past few years today any website owner has a wide choice of various navigation solutions with awesome extra features. Of course jQuery library is the true leader of this field. JQuery-powered menus are very reliable, simple and spectacular. Now if you are interested in improving your jQuery skills than you should check out navigation menu jQuery animation tutorials below. The great thing about these resources you can build powerful navigation menus with spectacular effect. So, basically you’ll have visually attractive menus with powerful functional background.

Also, in case you want something that’s already ready to be used, check out the awesome jQuery templates that we have at TemplateMonster, there are a lot of options with interesting navigation menu solutions there.

How to Create a jQuery Animated Sliding Sub-Menu Navigation

jQuery Animation in Navigation Menu [TUTORIALS]

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Animated Content Menu with jQuery

jQuery Animation in Navigation Menu [TUTORIALS]

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25 Website Templates with Grunge Elements

Grunge style is so much popular these days that everybody wants to use it on their blogs and websites. But why people love grunge? It is rather destructive and messy – the complete negation of structural order. That confused blend of irregular lines, dirty stains, textures, spilled out liquids, images with a torn effect – the epitome of grunge, isn’t it? Well, grunge gives a more leeway to pure naturalness as there is no showiness in grunge, nothing to prove. Grunge always feels right. And it will always well up within people regardless of how well the others react. If you love grunge and feel that your website should be somewhat urban, assertive by nature, you should use the grunge website templates from our collection – they perfectly utilize multiple grunge elements. Today’s featured designs bring grunge style to make any website pop. Check out!

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Starter Xml Flash Site Template

25 Website Templates with Grunge Elements

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Gyoen WordPress Theme

25 Website Templates with Grunge Elements

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Vision Xml Flash Site Template

25 Website Templates with Grunge Elements

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20 Fresh WordPress Themes with jQuery

When WordPress goes paring with jQuery in the process of site development, you can come out with some really smart layout results. Because jQuery allows you to quickly animate your blog, style the navigation menu, add some interactive dynamic elements to showcase works – well this list can be endless as jQuery functions variety is ever-increasing. Most often site owners feel that the space on the front page is not enough to properly render their project objectives – if that is the case then this JavaScript library could be the solution you need. We extend our WordPress Themes with jQuery elements so you could make use of sliders, image/content galleries, show and hide functions as well as other interesting animation effects. You can use the most advanced techniques of this framework and your WordPress powered design will then feel more powerful and easy to browse and interact with. Those of customers who use our WordPress designs enhanced with jQuery already take advantage of everything this two amazing technologies can offer them. Now’s the time for you to benefit from our most advanced WordPress products.

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Jacov WordPress Theme

20 Fresh WordPress Themes with jQuery

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JustStephen WordPress Theme

20 Fresh WordPress Themes with jQuery

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Zero WordPress Theme

20 Fresh WordPress Themes with jQuery

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Ruby on Rails Tutorials for Web Development Beginners

Well, for those of you who have no idea how such weird things as ruby and rails can be used in web development, here is a little tip that might clear the situation. Rails is a framework that is mostly used in the field of web applications development and it is written in the Ruby programming language. So, basically this is one of the most simple yet very efficient languages for developing various web applications for your websites. The following Ruby on Rails tutorials cover various aspects of this programming language. If you are a newbie and have just started learning it we assume that you’ll find these tutorials really useful for you because they are pretty much plain and easy. And for those you, our dear friends, who buy website templates and want to go further than the simple customization (like changing texts or photos) Ruby on Rails is definitely the right solution. So these Ruby tutorials will be your perfect first step in building great ruby-based apps.

Ruby for Newbies: Working with Directories and Files

Ruby on Rails Tutorials for Web Development Beginners

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Ruby On Rails Tutorial – Setting Up The Environment

Ruby on Rails Tutorials for Web Development Beginners

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Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center

If you wonder what to use to get more attention, use good design concept. This is the very starting point that is of the previous importance for creating the successful online project. Each element of this design should be thought-out to make your project user-friendly and appealing for its future visitors. We are glad to present you the following Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center that you are welcome to use as the ready-made solution for your web presence.

This theme is the first of the dark style series that will be released during the next month. The dark-style background is the main feature of these free website templates that make them visually effective. Besides, all of them are professionally done according to the latest trends of web design by the team from TemplateMonster.com. This theme is noticeable not only for its attractive layout, but also for the jQuery Gallery implemented in it. Using it, you can easily present whatever images you want to support the main idea of your project. Free template live demo will show you all the rest of features that can be found in this free website template.

Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center:

Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center

As you remember, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. If you need only HTML source files, download them from this post using the link below. To get the full package with PSD source files included visit the TemplateMonster Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center download page and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (make sure to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you are not allowed to resell it as a template.

Download Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center with PSD files (32,2MB)
Download Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center without PSD (933KB)

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.

Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Beauty Center

Business Cards Giveaway from UPrinting

Ok guys, we’ve got an interesting giveaway for you today. Since you’re all professionals (which we’re sure you are) you do need business cards as a tool for your business promotion. And today we’ve partnered with UPrinting – an online printing company – to deliver a business cards giveaway. One lucky winner will be able to win a whole lot of 250 business cards from UPrinting, and they will be delivered absolutely for free. Now here are the rest of the details.

Up for draw is one following prize for one lucky winner:
250 pcs Die Cut Business Cards for one winner

  • 2 x 3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×2″ Rounded Corners, 1.75×3.5″ Rounded Corners, 2×3.5″ Leaf, 2×3.5 Rounded one corner, 2×3.5″ Half Circle Side, 2×3.5″ Oval, 2.5″ Circle
  • 14pt Cardstock Gloss / Matte / High Gloss (UV), or 13pt Cardstock Uncoated,
  • 6 Business Days Turnaround *Free shipping

see ideas for your custom business cards

Sounds like something you’re interested in? Read on!

You have two options of how to enter the lottery:

1. Twitter: Tweet including the business card URL, http://www.uprinting.com/business-cards.html
Example: II want to get a chance to win business cards http://www.uprinting.com/business-cards.html @UPrinting

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You can use the button below:


So as you can see it’s very easy to enter a lottery, so don’t hesitate to do that. And we wish the best of luck to everyone!

Disclaimer: Limited to *US residents 18 years old and above only. This custom business cards giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting. For more information about online printing please visit UPrinting,com.