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Free Design Templates

February 14th, 2007 in Developer's Toolbox | 203 Comments

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Free design templates don’t have to be unattractive, inaccurate and boring. Some web-sites offer high quality templates for the best price you would ever get - for free. You can download Flash-based templates as well as CSS-based layouts absolutely free; furthermore, you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions whatsoever. Still, before using some of the templates, throw a glance at the license agreements - they’re changing all the time.

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  1. 1.

    Ainslie (February 14th, 2007, 6:37 am)

    Here’s another one Link [www.opendesigns.org] :-)

  2. 2.

    Raj (February 14th, 2007, 6:43 am)

    Great stuff guys! I really don’t know how much time it takes for your guys to compile such a list of excellent resources but it takes a lot of time for me to digest it all! Keep up the good work!

    Thank you!

  3. 3.

    Biz Man (February 14th, 2007, 6:54 am)

    Wow, what a great list, definitely bookmarked.

  4. 4.

    StyleSpion (February 14th, 2007, 7:37 am)

    The 3 screenshots on top are damn ugly. But it’s still a great list. Thanks.

  5. 5.

    cssKid777 (February 14th, 2007, 9:46 am)

    Wow nice, huge list, thanks!
    here’s one more: Link [www.templateworld.com]

  6. 6.

    Paul Rand (February 14th, 2007, 11:31 am)

    These are Fugly

  7. 7.

    Michoacano (February 14th, 2007, 12:14 pm)

    OMG……

  8. 8.

    Troy (February 14th, 2007, 12:26 pm)

    I Just want to say..Outstanding.
    we own a link site or two..and we will be Glad to add you for free and Man..I could spend years on this site and still not find everything!

    Beautiful..This totally rocks!

    Thanks..
    Troy

  9. 9.

    joomla templates (February 14th, 2007, 12:33 pm)

    cool! great collection of valuable stuff. I’d love to see the same based on a CMS series.

  10. 10.

    Homeboy (February 14th, 2007, 2:29 pm)

    Classy stuff!

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    Michael (February 14th, 2007, 3:05 pm)

    Well, its obvious why they are free.
    You really do get what you (don’t) pay for :-)

  12. 12.

    Open Source Templates (February 14th, 2007, 3:26 pm)

    Link [www.opensourcetemplates.org]

    Funny this site wasn’t included as it is one of the more popular open source template sites.

  13. 13.

    Der Klempner (February 14th, 2007, 4:05 pm)

    Great list. Lotsa stuff right here, even quality one. Thx 4 sharing it. Will take hours to view all :O) and then save days when not reinventing the wheel/layout.

    My 2 cent

    Der Klempner

  14. 14.

    Fran6 (February 14th, 2007, 4:27 pm)

    As always a great article ! But now I have so many bookmarks and not enough time to discover all of them !!!

  15. 15.

    Navdeep (February 14th, 2007, 5:13 pm)

    A very good collection of Links.

  16. 16.

    Ivan Minic (February 14th, 2007, 5:17 pm)

    Great selection!

  17. 17.

    christian becher (February 14th, 2007, 7:12 pm)

    i know another ressource: Link [templates.phaziz.com]

  18. 18.

    xhizzle (February 14th, 2007, 7:27 pm)

    this place has some really simple but cool looking ones

    Link [www.simpleurl.co.uk]

  19. 19.

    loops (February 14th, 2007, 8:13 pm)

    Thanks for this nice list, great resource once again!

  20. 20.

    valentine (February 14th, 2007, 9:02 pm)

    Here is a free valentine template for WordPress.
    Link [wordpress.valentine-s-day.net]

  21. 21.

    scott (February 14th, 2007, 10:02 pm)

    Check out mollio - Link [www.mollio.org]

  22. 22.

    Keith (February 14th, 2007, 10:21 pm)

    Interesting Link [www.neohide.com]. Good work to those who develop them and offer for free usage.

  23. 23.

    Greg (February 14th, 2007, 10:31 pm)

    Here’s another one: Link [www.web-templates.ws]

  24. 24.

    Isnaini (February 14th, 2007, 11:02 pm)

    Thanks for listing my Link [freetemplates.blogspot.com] , feel free to visit my blog for new Link []

  25. 25.

    krash (February 15th, 2007, 12:25 am)

    i cant believe you posted these templates. reminds me of when I first started designing.

  26. 26.

    John (February 15th, 2007, 1:10 am)

    Nice list of links…I’ve been compiling a list for almost a year now and you have like 10 times as many quality links. You destroyed my personal collection…or I guess I could just say that you blew it up. I’ve never starting a website from scratch again…

    John
    Link [www.monomachines.com]

  27. 27.

    Christophe (February 15th, 2007, 1:39 am)

    Man you guys have been publishing some really useful posts. I think it would also be nice if you guys created a Del.icio.us account to tag and store all the links that come up on this blog.

  28. 28.

    Mike Walker (February 15th, 2007, 1:52 am)

    Great compile guys!

  29. 29.

    Funky Jay (February 15th, 2007, 3:18 am)

    i think Link [templates.arcsin.se] should definitely be mentioned here.

  30. 30.

    Kelvin Shiong (February 15th, 2007, 4:11 am)

    You have missed a nice 5 free webtemplates from Link [www.adesdesign.net]

  31. 31.

    onur pay (February 15th, 2007, 10:16 am)

    thank you for the great archive..

  32. 32.

    insomnity (February 15th, 2007, 12:51 pm)

    wow. another great post!

    thanks.

  33. 33.

    Chris (February 15th, 2007, 9:40 pm)

    Another for WordPress themes (my site): Link [wordpressthemesthatdontsuck.com]

  34. 34.

    Darrel Fryer (February 17th, 2007, 5:55 am)

    Hired MoxyWebDesign.com to create a website template - WHAT A DISASTER - they couldn’t even get my logo right - I’m ashamed of how ugly my site has become. If anyone out there can do better please contact me asap and tell your clients to beware MoxyWebDesign - this company is a total scam - they can’t do anything right at all

  35. 35.

    Stuart (February 17th, 2007, 8:00 pm)

    Seems kinda like plagiarism to me… offering free layouts really disturbs the functioning of our creative juices in the design industry.

  36. 36.

    B G Mohan kumar (February 18th, 2007, 1:55 am)

    STRANGE FREE WEB DESIGN IS SO DIFFICULT

  37. 37.

    Joost (February 18th, 2007, 9:59 am)

    Some good templates.

  38. 38.

    meryl (February 22nd, 2007, 12:49 am)

    Looks like Francey lost the domain name to a squatter.

  39. 39.

    Custom Web Site Design (February 25th, 2007, 4:14 pm)

    Excellent list. Great work.

    Thanks.

  40. 40.

    rob (February 28th, 2007, 8:13 pm)

    Thanks,

    really a lot of links…

  41. 41.

    fongpn (March 3rd, 2007, 10:31 am)

    Here are some open source webdesign templates, Link [www.oswd.org]

  42. 42.

    LGR (March 10th, 2007, 4:04 am)

    Don’t have time to check them all out? I pick the best five that are worth your time: Link [www.blog.lgr.ca]

  43. 43.

    Brad Pugh (March 10th, 2007, 9:54 am)

    These guys boast “web designers” - there is only - and she stinks

  44. 44.

    Andrew McAuther (March 15th, 2007, 8:28 am)

    We’ve got a bunch of free flash templates at:
    Link [www.flashvillage.com]

  45. 45.

    Web Development (March 20th, 2007, 8:23 pm)

    Designing Templetes is not as easy as it seem, wht most important is how others looks it.

  46. 46.

    websit babolroyal (April 16th, 2007, 10:45 am)

    very very gooooooooooooooooooood

  47. 47.

    web templates (April 18th, 2007, 7:55 pm)

    Really great material and amazing list! You rock!

  48. 48.

    Dena DeMent (April 26th, 2007, 12:15 pm)

    MoxyWebDesign is closed.

  49. 49.

    guanhua88 (May 4th, 2007, 11:37 am)

    This is Great! I have posted some related sites over here:http://todaytop10.com

  50. 50.

    alex_ng (May 4th, 2007, 12:34 pm)

    This is Great! I have posted some related sites over here: Link [todaytop10.com]

  51. 51.

    Website Templates (May 6th, 2007, 2:49 pm)

    Very nice and useful list of free templates sites. As I can see You didn’t include Link [www.getcsstemplates.com]. They have many nice and useful templates ready for download.

  52. 52.

    andy (May 7th, 2007, 4:10 am)

    check this cool site offering free logos (some really nice) Link [www.logodesignengine.com]

  53. 53.

    ragab mahrous (May 16th, 2007, 3:30 pm)

    very good

  54. 54.

    Thale (May 22nd, 2007, 10:31 pm)

    Excellent post! Just bookmarked…
    Thanks!

  55. 55.

    Michael (June 1st, 2007, 2:41 am)

    I’m writing about some free template sources but you’ve done it, this is it!
    This probably took you hours to make it, but now it is a valuable information for anybody searching for templates.
    Cheers!

  56. 56.

    Nikhil (June 15th, 2007, 7:40 pm)

    Great job, realy useful

  57. 57.

    amol kadam (June 15th, 2007, 8:29 pm)

    i’am into print media. i wanted to know web site that having a layout of visiting cards, letterheads, brochures, logos.
    if anyone know about any web site that having a layout.
    HELP ME !
    mail me link on- Link []

  58. 58.

    dx-xel (June 16th, 2007, 11:05 am)

    great list…very useful for me..thanks..:-)

  59. 59.

    Sean (June 22nd, 2007, 1:38 pm)

    Don’t forget Link [themebot.com]. Probably one of the only web design template sites that actually donates back to the open source software projects.

  60. 60.

    Aleisha (June 26th, 2007, 3:16 pm)

    There’s some pretty good myspace layouts for free at Link [www.snazzyspace.com] for those who don’t have websites, but have myspace profiles.

  61. 61.

    FreeBSD (July 18th, 2007, 9:31 pm)

    Are you keeping this list up to date? There are a few new sites that aren’t listed here (yet?)

  62. 62.

    Kjell (July 24th, 2007, 2:11 am)

    If you use ASP then I suggest you take a look at my site, I offer free opensource templates ported to Forest Blog and Forest Site. More CMS applications will be added very soon. Designers get in touch to have your template ports listed on Free-Template-Ports.com.

  63. 63.

    puika (July 30th, 2007, 3:12 am)

    Thanks for free tempalates great list,please continue your project.

  64. 64.

    igre (August 8th, 2007, 9:40 pm)

    Does anybody know where professional CSS templates could be purchased exclusively? Some of these free designs are great, but I would prefer a totally custom design only for my page. There are a lot of designers but they don’t have already made templates if you want exclusive designed site - they design it after you order.

  65. 65.

    Logo Design by Andreas (August 16th, 2007, 8:10 am)

    it’s so good collecting these resources all in one page! Thank you for your effort to share them with us!

  66. 66.

    Daniel (August 27th, 2007, 10:42 am)

    Here’s another one:

    Link [dodesign.us]

  67. 67.

    Sven Fischer (August 28th, 2007, 1:38 am)

    Hi,

    verry cool Design Templates - great work.
    Verry thanks and greetings from Germany

    Sven Fischer

  68. 68.

    Sharnee (September 2nd, 2007, 8:19 pm)

    I’ve got a few interesting Blogger designs in my archives (about 40+ now). More interesting than your regular old templates. Lots of retro, colour etc.

    Link [freebloggerdesigns.blogspot.com]

    No! Really! They are awesome.

  69. 69.

    Sharnee (September 4th, 2007, 12:47 pm)

    Groups: I disagree with you. So many people are blogging at the moment that it’s unrealistic to expect the average Blogger to have to pay so much money for something so simple.

    If someone can make a living my designing only Blogger templates, then Kudos to them. I only design them because I love doing so and I am just tired of generic and boring designs.
    It’s not plagiarism if I have made them and distribute them. Ever heard of Creative Commons?

  70. 70.

    Arda (September 22nd, 2007, 10:41 am)

    Link [www.solucija.com] has some nice free templates.

  71. 71.

    mediaVinci (October 2nd, 2007, 8:57 pm)

    here’s another one

    Link [www.pixel-templates.com] offering multi-page website templates which include various web page layouts.

    Cheers.

  72. 72.

    Gabriel (October 3rd, 2007, 3:15 am)

    Hi,

    Link [www.webmaster-elite.de] offering also some cool Templates.

    Gabriel

  73. 73.

    Robert Toth (October 3rd, 2007, 7:20 pm)

    More professional looking flash, HTML, PSD website templates you can download for FREE at Link [www.1stwebdesign.sk]

  74. 74.

    Gabrielle (October 4th, 2007, 1:59 pm)

    Nice templates, thanks.
    Here an other one :
    Link [www.freenicetemplates.com]
    Gabrielle

  75. 75.

    Sally (October 19th, 2007, 1:04 am)

    Wow! Too much services are mentioned.
    Thanks you, I find some useful sites with a great variety of website templates.

  76. 76.

    JLGraham (October 23rd, 2007, 11:58 am)

    Wow, that is one indepth list. Could I use it on my website, the entire list? I always like to get permission first.
    Jess

  77. 77.

    ABC Communication thiet ke web, dich thuat, thiet ke poster (October 31st, 2007, 3:18 pm)

    thiet ke web, thiet ke logo, thiet ke brochure, thiet ke website, thiet ke in an, web, website, lap trinh web, cho thue may chu, cung cap email, mail server, dich thuat, , quang cao in an, xay dung thuong hieu

  78. 78.

    Website Designers UK (November 26th, 2007, 6:43 pm)

    UK Website Designers, Breathe365 are a web design agency who can make a real difference to you business online.

  79. 79.

    James (January 8th, 2008, 8:47 am)

    i need bookmark it,really like it

  80. 80.

    Adrian (January 17th, 2008, 12:32 pm)

    Here’s one more: Link [csscreme.com]

  81. 81.

    ash (February 4th, 2008, 6:19 pm)

    Here another one: Link [www.nuviotemplates.com]

  82. 82.

    Brij (February 12th, 2008, 4:11 am)

    Hi,
    I am a SEO I really thanks you for creating such great resource page.
    Here is much services are mentioned. I find some useful sites with a great variety of website resource for SEO.
    Continue your project….

  83. 83.

    Kevin (February 16th, 2008, 1:23 am)

    Ginger Ninja! = not online anymore for templates

  84. 84.

    andreas from Bob Eco t-shirt (February 21st, 2008, 12:00 pm)

    nice resources. thanks

  85. 85.

    Svein Erik (February 25th, 2008, 3:14 am)

    Another site, they have both free and premium versions of their templates: Link [www.csstemplatesweb.com]

  86. 86.

    Laura Mockridge (February 26th, 2008, 4:00 am)

    Heres another one I’m surprised wasn’t added

    Dreamlinestudio.com

  87. 87.

    Martin (March 6th, 2008, 9:45 am)

    Great list. It is all listed in one place :-)

  88. 88.

    Tayyab (March 9th, 2008, 10:52 pm)

    Visit Most popular free online advertisement forum. where you can post your advertisement free of cost.

    Link [hlsinternational.net]

  89. 89.

    Mr.Askarinejad (March 19th, 2008, 12:25 am)

    Hi,
    Can i request for design a template for my weblog?
    If you can i want a template for my weblog. that in first page visitors can choos one of a these language: English العربيه فارسي
    I want it get very beatiful and formal.
    I can instead of it’s mony.advertise your site to my friend.
    you can send it to my mail
    Tancks a lot

  90. 90.

    victor (March 20th, 2008, 10:35 pm)

    Beautiful web layouts…..
    from, Link [www.bangaloreonlinemall.com]

  91. 91.

    AK (April 1st, 2008, 3:55 am)

    oh…great templates. May be i can order one.
    find free webdesign video lectures at Link [freevideolectures.com]

  92. 92.

    Marc (April 13th, 2008, 9:52 pm)

    Great list!!! Recently I have found very cool Wordpress themes. Free for personal usage! Link [www.presswordthemes.com].

  93. 93.

    Austin (April 18th, 2008, 10:10 pm)

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    We would be interested in purchasing advertising on your site Link [www.smashingmagazine.com.]
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