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100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates

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If you haven’t taken a look at the (X)HTML/CSS templates that are available for free from a variety of sources, you may be surprised by the quality you can find. WordPress themes tend to get a lot of exposure and attention in the design community right now, but there is also a wide variety of high-quality (X)HTML/CSS templates that are free of charge.

In this post, we’ll showcase 100 free high-quality templates. Hopefully some of them will save you some time in your design and development. While they are generally free for personal or commercial use, always remember to check the license first for any restrictions or guidelines.

You may want to take a look at other collections as well (some are from Smashing Magazine, some are not):

100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates

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Environmental Brand | Download Environmental Brand

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Internet Jobs | Download Internet Jobs

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Internet Music | Download Internet Music

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Harvest | Download Harvest

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Blackberry | Download Blackberry

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Flower Shop | Download Flower Shop

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Lingerie Store | Download Lingerie Store

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Web Application | Download Web Application

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Internet Studio | Download Internet Studio

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Jet 30 | Download Jet 30

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Green Web | Download Green Web

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Flash Web | Download Flash Web

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AppleWeb | Download Apple Web

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Trial Impact | Download Trial Impact

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Aquatic | Download Aquatic

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Business Events | Download Business Events

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Cool Web | Download Cool Web

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Genious Web | Download Genious Web

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Expert Vision | Download Expert Vision

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Intercraft | Download Intercraft

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Clean Design | Download Clean Design

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Business Design | Download Business Design

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Delicious Fruit | Download Delicious Fruit

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Simple Life | Download Simple Life

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Street Style | Download Street Style

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Miss Understood | Download Miss Understood

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Street Life | Download Street Life

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Clarity | Download Clarity

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The Old Forest | Download The Old Forest

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Typography Paramount | Download Typography Paramount

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Nature’s Charm II | Download Nature’s Charm II

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Zenlike | Download Zenlike

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Clicker | Download Clicker

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Biz Company | Download Biz Company

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Happy Template | Download Happy Template

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Internet Encyclopedia | Download Internet Encyclopedia

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Concept Nova | Download Concept Nova

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Free CSS Full Site Template | Download Free CSS Full Site Template

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Black Eyed Susan | Download Black Eyed Susan

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Interlude | Download Interlude

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Printing | Download Printing

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Numerology | Download Numerology

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Greeny Grass | Download Greeny Grass

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Collaboration | Download Collaboration

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Breakfast | Download Breakfast

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News Flash | Download News Flash

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Discovery | Download Discovery

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Adios | Download Adios

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Old Architecture | Download Old Architecture

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Beauty Co. | Download Beauty Co.

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Jewelry Shop | Download Jewelry Shop

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Book Store | Download Book Store

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Real Estate | Download Real Estate

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Business Company Dark Blue | Download Business Company Dark Blue

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Electronix | Download Electronix

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Photo Gallery Green | Download Photo Gallery Green

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Quartz Storage | Download Quartz Storage

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Aero Solutions | Download Aero Solutions

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Unnamed | Download Unnamed

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Imagination | Download Imagination

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Corporate | Download Corporate

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Urban Artist | Download Urban Artist

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VectorLover | Download VectorLover

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Keep it Simple | Download Keep it Simple

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FreshMedia | Download FreshMedia

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EliteCircle | Download EliteCircle

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Nature Theme | Download Nature Theme

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Mint Idea | Download Mint Idea

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Metplate | Download Metplate

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Decent Photo Gallery | Download Decent Photo Gallery

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Consulting Services | Download Consulting Services

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Flare | Download Flare

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Water Spill | Download Water Spill

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Inverted Headline | Download Inverted Headline

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Choice | Download Choice

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Purple | Download Purple

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Business Elegance | Download Business Elegance

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Symisun | Download Symisun

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Ad Agency | Download Ad Agency

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GUITARhero | Download GUITARhero

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Pixel Green | Download Pixel Green

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Subdued | Download Subdued

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The Big Leaf | Download the Big Leaf

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GreenWay | Download GreenWay

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BWDEC2007 | Download BWDEC2007

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Steven Snell has been designing websites for several years. He actively maintains a few blogs of his own, including DesignM.ag, which regularly provides articles and resources for web designers.

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  1. 1
    nick
    December 1st, 2008 2:53 pm

    A ton of nice templates here. Cool!!

  2. 2
    www.galaxyspectrum.com
    December 1st, 2008 3:04 pm

    . :-) Stunning collection of templates

  3. 3
    Ravi
    December 1st, 2008 3:09 pm

    A beautiful and highly useful compilation! Great work guys.

  4. 4
    matt
    December 1st, 2008 3:23 pm

    great just what we need…more templates that people can submit to design galleries as their “own custom design”

  5. 5
    chip
    December 1st, 2008 3:39 pm

    Very nice, some great inspiration there!

    matt: agreed, but “faking it till you make it” in the design game is a very short journey to failure!

  6. 6
    Curt Simon Harlinghausen
    December 1st, 2008 3:52 pm

    Genius

  7. 7
    Siah Design
    December 1st, 2008 3:52 pm

    Some excellent material. Some aren’t that great. But there is a lot of quality. Thank you so much for compiling.

  8. 8
    Atomised: the web design co-operative
    December 1st, 2008 4:12 pm

    Great list guys but are you trying to put us web design shops out of business?? haha!

  9. 9
    Dele
    December 1st, 2008 4:48 pm

    This is really an awesome bunch. And free?? Unbelievable!! This will definitely make some developers look like designers. hehehhee :)

  10. 10
    Rutchelle
    December 1st, 2008 5:01 pm

    Very helpful! thanks

  11. 11
    Jarryd
    December 1st, 2008 5:04 pm

    So…many…templates O_o

    Are they all cross-browser compatible?

  12. 12
    pickupjojo
    December 1st, 2008 5:15 pm

    Wow, thank you very much Smashing Mag!
    More posts like that please. :)

  13. 13
    Drew
    December 1st, 2008 5:23 pm

    Pure.Evil.

  14. 14
    DemusDesign
    December 1st, 2008 5:53 pm

    Great list, and thrilled to see two of my templates in there (Inverted Healine and Choice).

    (How do I get in touch with the author to see if he can change the links to go directly to my website… DemusDesign?)

  15. 15
    Steven Snell
    December 1st, 2008 6:19 pm

    Jarryd,
    Some of them list browsers that have been tested, but generally I wouldn’t assume too much from a free template. I would recommend testing even if it claims to be cross browser compatible.

  16. 16
    Simon
    December 1st, 2008 6:31 pm

    Seeing how “Reference” is such an obvious ripoff of superawesome it makes me wonder how many other templates in that bunch is nothing else but a cheap clone of some good looking website.

  17. 17
    Reza
    December 1st, 2008 6:46 pm

    All wonderful templates, I am wondering how easy is to plug them into cms frameworks like Joomla or Drupal?

  18. 18
    Emil
    December 1st, 2008 7:22 pm

    nice collection there !! very smashing magazine indeed !!

  19. 19
    cupidnouva
    December 1st, 2008 7:56 pm

    Rock you the free theme of website…
    thanks for recommendations…

    cupidnouva

  20. 20
    BR
    December 1st, 2008 8:45 pm

    This is the downfall of web design. Sure, that may sound a bit exaggerated, but this is exactly the reason why so many websites today look line clones of one another — with all their repeated “Web 2.0 elements” and what not. Developers need to stick to what they do know best, just like how designers should not pose as hardcore developers. Economy is bad enough as it is. Brands across the nation and around the world could actually use some competitive designs that don’t look like every other site with rounded-corners; and the design agencies, whether big or small, could actually use the work. Smashing Magazine, please stop feeding everybody the same kind of bullshit. It’s one thing to inspire people to learn and create, but it’s totally something else to just hand everything to people without them earning it through their own labor. Please, if you guys care one bit about actual creativity in the field of design, if you guys care one bit about the progress of art and design, then you know this isn’t the way to stimulate anything new.

  21. 21
    yoshi
    December 1st, 2008 9:26 pm

    very nice

  22. 22
    DC
    December 1st, 2008 9:43 pm

    Going to have to disagree with a few posts above. I’m just getting into the field myself, and it is quite helpful to be able to dissect a fully operational template to try to come to terms with all of the quirks in browsers and techniques to resolve different layout issues. (The real solution would be to teach it at the university, or make books much cheaper for students, but apparently no one has thought of that so far…).

    (Though I agree with not making 7000+ clones of the same tired website. Even someone interested in the field gets tired of looking at the same thing.)

  23. 23
    Tschai
    December 1st, 2008 10:00 pm

    Love free templates.

    But a lot of these are quite underwhelming, actually. Tastes do differ, I guess.

    PS: Why is SM lacking a field for our URL in the comments box, so people don’t have to spam?

  24. 24
    www.Mons.ws
    December 1st, 2008 10:04 pm

    Exelent =)) !

  25. 25
    Dileep
    December 1st, 2008 10:36 pm

    Excellent selection of templates! Thank you very much!

  26. 26
    CantY
    December 1st, 2008 11:13 pm

    wow….
    It’s nice list :)

  27. 27
    Daniel
    December 1st, 2008 11:28 pm

    Stunning selection of templates, thank you so much for the share :)

  28. 28
    Ballu
    December 1st, 2008 11:39 pm

    gr8 collection !!

  29. 29
    Nick
    December 1st, 2008 11:43 pm

    wow this article has a lot of low quality and terrible layouts. Bad article.

  30. 30
    aniec2
    December 2nd, 2008 12:07 am

    thank you very much:)

  31. 31
    Rudi Verago
    December 2nd, 2008 12:12 am

    Fine selection.

  32. 32
    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
    December 2nd, 2008 12:17 am

    These templates are not supposed to be copied and used 1:1. But designers can learn a lot from analyzing the code and learning new techniques presented there. That was the main point of this post.

  33. 33
    jacksuc
    December 2nd, 2008 12:26 am

    beautiful

  34. 34
    gopi
    December 2nd, 2008 12:29 am

    Good number of collection !
    There is a lot of things to learn from these templates ….. ! i recommend the website to my friends

  35. 35
    Lorenzo Bondioni (Bestgrafiks)
    December 2nd, 2008 12:30 am

    Very cool and intresting post. i love it.

  36. 36
    wohoos
    December 2nd, 2008 12:46 am

    These templates are not supposed to be copied…

    Great joke. You’re killing me.

  37. 37
    Arda
    December 2nd, 2008 12:46 am

    nice post, but some of them are really so old. Especially templateworld stuff.. I don’t agree with people who hate free templates. Creativity costs! Not all the people have money to pay for creativity. Even if they have, do you think that there are thousands of artists who can make creative designs?
    Using free templates is a very good way, especially about corporate web sites. If you are smart enough, you can create a uniqueness by changing the header images, font-family, colors. If you have time, you can even change the layout with few lines.
    It’s better to create a uniqueness with your services, with your products. It’s more important then your web site’s a:hover effect :-)

  38. 38
    ShoutWhat
    December 2nd, 2008 12:46 am

    Nice templates u hv there, really professional templates.
    Thanks for sharing~~

  39. 39
    Shuklendu
    December 2nd, 2008 12:56 am

    Thanks for giving such good stuff.

  40. 40
    Markus
    December 2nd, 2008 1:13 am

    Thx for the great List! Awesome!

  41. 41
    LC
    December 2nd, 2008 1:15 am

    So many templates, even free that sometimes i wonder why I spend so much times on photoshop and html. However templates never connect to me, I just see them as soulless.

    But for sure I take inspiration from them :)

  42. 42
    Federico
    December 2nd, 2008 1:25 am

    Very cool templates…. molto bene!

  43. 43
    David Airey
    December 2nd, 2008 1:47 am

    You’ve outdone yourself, Steven! I hope you’re keeping well (and Vitaly / Sven).

  44. 44
    Mark Magyar
    December 2nd, 2008 2:18 am

    Big thx man!

  45. 45
    ALan
    December 2nd, 2008 2:21 am

    THANKS !! xmas came early!

  46. 46
    www.dsignzmedia.com
    December 2nd, 2008 2:35 am

    Nice Collections.. Thanks

  47. 47
    ptarmigan
    December 2nd, 2008 2:41 am

    what a listing :D
    thank you very much

  48. 48
    Bruno Wiltemburg
    December 2nd, 2008 2:49 am

    This is a cool list. For many times I’ve looking for a nice CSS template, here I found various.
    Thanks

  49. 49
    gabi
    December 2nd, 2008 3:27 am

    Very nice templates.

    Next time don’t forget about
    THESE nice free template :)
    Thanks

  50. 50
    Andrew
    December 2nd, 2008 3:36 am

    Let’s not forget that these free templates are designed solely with publicity in mind. The designers of these sites use them as a platform for future bespoke commissions. That’s no bad thing, but it does give a soulless generic feel to some of the freebies. I kind of agree with BR in terms of rounded-corners being passé. They can kill a site if not used subtly. The Greeny Grass template is great by the way – a simple but effective bit of design.

  51. 51
    J
    December 2nd, 2008 4:17 am

    SMALL POSTS TO RSS
    PLEASE

  52. 52
    Tom
    December 2nd, 2008 4:23 am

    @BR

    “Developers need to stick to what they do know best, just like how designers should not pose as hardcore developers.”

    That smacks of hard grapes on your part BR,
    Clearly you are making alowance for designers who engage in a little non-hardcore development.. aka yourself

    Since using templates is considered non-hardcore design you have justified their use by developers.

    Perhaps, to paraphrase yourself “Designers need to stick to what they do know best”

  53. 53
    dan
    December 2nd, 2008 4:24 am

    I found in this templates a lot of learning. I belive every beginner can learn interesting css building methods from this. Thank you.

  54. 54
    tim
    December 2nd, 2008 4:24 am

    siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
    thanks, smashing rocks !

  55. 55
    Alex Rainy
    December 2nd, 2008 5:35 am

    Looks like Interlude theme ported from Drupal :)
    Nice!

  56. 56
    oleven
    December 2nd, 2008 5:39 am

    Nice well.

  57. 57
    matt
    December 2nd, 2008 5:54 am

    These templates are not supposed to be copied and used 1:1. But designers can learn a lot from analyzing the code and learning new techniques presented there. That was the main point of this post.

    that’s the most absurd idea! post tutorials and tips, not 100 free templates please.

  58. 58
    Elad
    December 2nd, 2008 6:34 am

    Great!!!

  59. 59
    vacuna
    December 2nd, 2008 7:59 am

    great designs here, i njoyed alot

    Thanks you

  60. 60
    Disposable_Hero
    December 2nd, 2008 8:22 am

    People sure do whine a lot about free stuff…

  61. 61
    r_jake
    December 2nd, 2008 9:17 am

    Three points:

    1. Surely in any design discipline one has to build upon existing and past work. We don’t exist in a vacuum. Nobody can say that they design from scratch every time they start a new commission – all designers borrow and lift from other things they have seen whether they are conscious of it or not. What’s the difference between being inspired by elements within another site or developing elements from a template? When you’ve a got a tight deadline you have to resort to using a few ready-made ideas to add to your own.

    2. None of these would be suitable to use wholesale, and they are not intended to be used in this way. They would all need adapting to meet a clients needs, and this would be beyond anyone who doesn’t have a good grasp of XHTML and CSS. So arguing that templates put designers out of job is a bit daft.

    3. Not all clients need cutting edge designs! Some just need cheap, simple, functional sites. This is the bread and butter of our profession, so surely anything that speeds the process up a bit has got to be a good thing, right?

  62. 62
    Carlos Cortes
    December 2nd, 2008 9:51 am

    Now this is just AWESOME!!!

  63. 63
    Jon
    December 2nd, 2008 11:37 am

    Some of you need to quit complaining!

    It’s an outstanding collection that is free from the designers. The designers can do whatever they want with their CSS, Code and creative productions.

    It’s up to you to demonstrate to your prospective clients why your work is going to stand out. Why YOU are different and make a difference!

  64. 64
    Tom
    December 2nd, 2008 11:51 am

    wow, good design is conquering the web! :)

  65. 65
    B
    December 2nd, 2008 11:57 am

    Templates are evil, existing only to aid those who are incapable of doing the work themselves and promoted by those only interested in saving money. They represent all that is wrong with our industry and their wide acceptance is why jobs that belong to designers go to office assistants and secretaries and why most people don’t know the difference.

  66. 66
    alphaone
    December 2nd, 2008 12:56 pm

    fantastic! thanks!

  67. 67
    ramblingsoul
    December 2nd, 2008 1:10 pm

    thats cool :) my 2 templates are there. thank you

  68. 68
    Calítoe.:.
    December 2nd, 2008 3:28 pm

    I see that many of the Freecsstemplates templates are linked through Ez-designs instead of linking freecsstemplates.com directly, is there a reason for that?

  69. 69
    Frog
    December 2nd, 2008 4:02 pm

    To be perfectly honest here, I’m amazed these are free! Seriously, they are fantastic!

  70. 70
    Genziz.com
    December 2nd, 2008 7:52 pm

    Really nice collection, thank you very much.

  71. 71
    Kelvin Li
    December 2nd, 2008 11:57 pm

    Thank you so much! totally agree with frog.

    Some of these are even better than those which cost.

  72. 72
    Hero
    December 3rd, 2008 12:00 am

    thanks you so much!

  73. 73
    Mark
    December 3rd, 2008 3:00 am

    Good templates designed with CSS are hard to come by & these are brilliant web design resources »

  74. 74
    unregistered
    December 3rd, 2008 3:24 am

    Thanks, it is really useful info! You’re the best! :)

  75. 75
    FAOT
    December 3rd, 2008 5:42 am

    Good idea !

  76. 76
    Ricardo
    December 3rd, 2008 9:01 am

    I don’t think it is wrong to exist free templates. I think it is wrong people who charge their clients for a layout wich were not made by them.

    One problem is that it is really bad for industry, not for the fact of free stuff, but for the fact people take advantage of it.

    Most of clients don’t understand fully our job, but if you question them: ‘do you prefer to pay X or Y?’ (X=layout “done” by someone who used a free template / Y=layout done by an experienced designer / being X much cheaper than Y). Most of your answers will be: ‘i prefer X.’.

    People who use ‘FREE’ templates shouldn’t charge anything for it (but that doesn’t happens). They are only difficulting designers life.

    Get an insipiration over ‘FREE’ templates, yeah OK. But that doesn’t happen too. They are used often, and often and often.

    Even web agencies have their website over a FREE template. But then they say that they design it? (come on…)

    I had clients that come to me cause of ‘their’ website been done by people like that (meaning a long range types of people). Conclusion, they all get frustated cause now, they will have to pay more for a ‘good job’.

    I coud be giving several examples, but i want to be short.

    I am a developer having design knowledge (but most of my work is developing). I don’t think the question is ‘defending’ designers, or developers who don’t know how to design.

    Unfortunately, working on this area(web) is very ‘hard’(?) for those who try to keep up a good work. Probably i could say that about 60% who claims to be a webdesigner/webdeveloper should consider a change, cause most of them do ‘bad’ works. (and i have several examples of that).

    About this list in smashing, i agree that shouldn’t exist. Honestly.
    Considering the slogan: “we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.”
    Life easier to whom? True designers, i don’t think so. All other people who claims to be a designer and in fact they’re not, yes, they get life easier.

    As i said i am a developer, and i don’t understand for all other comments a ‘fight’ over designers X developers. Being a developer, every time a have do design i do it. Insipiration over several stuff, but never using a free template for a client. If it is for my brother who wants a website, yeah, why not using it, keeping the author of the template and so on..

    It is all.. Good work to everyone

  77. 77
    webguru
    December 3rd, 2008 9:22 am

    amazing summary. sure a lotta work. thx !

  78. 78
    gomezconversoz
    December 4th, 2008 12:41 am

    very nice – thanks a lot

  79. 79
    leoner
    December 4th, 2008 12:48 am

    They all are so beautiful, and free. Ah, i love em all.

  80. 80
    Diggity Dee Gee
    December 4th, 2008 11:38 am

    I’m of the mind that if you are a good enough artist you’ll use these templates appropriately. I, for one, like to look at completed works like these and dissect them. Then again though, that’s just the way my brain works. Being fairly new to CSS this is a tremendous help!

    There was one template, for example, called “Consultant” that has a few design concepts I couldnt seem to figure out. After downloading it I realized a particular technique of using background images with lists and headers. Of course! Again, Im fairly new to CSS but had I not looked, it might have taken a while to figure it out on my own.

    These are excellent teaching tools but if you seriously want to use them “as-is” then shame on you! That just sucks! Thanks Smashing for providing these for “newbs” like me.

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    milham
    December 4th, 2008 4:04 pm

    very atractive
    Nice post
    nice template
    visit my blog

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    malbiniak
    December 4th, 2008 5:42 pm

    Seriously? Did you run out of title characters? I don’t see “bad” in there anywhere.

    Editor: 100 Free Bad High-Qualit XHTML/CSS Templates | Putting the “you get what you paid for” in free.

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    reza
    December 4th, 2008 6:09 pm

    Awesome designs..!

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    Mmahdi
    December 4th, 2008 10:31 pm

    good job. thanks a lot smash!

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    ali
    December 5th, 2008 11:01 am

    exellent

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    Zaigham
    December 5th, 2008 5:00 pm

    Very nice list of quality templates. Thanks.

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    Kanta
    December 6th, 2008 9:17 am

    Well… this is complicated…these many designs to chose from…one beating other….

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    Landing Page Templates
    December 7th, 2008 12:39 am

    wow these templates are so good. I just love them.

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    Aleso
    December 7th, 2008 7:29 am

    wow a lot of cool template, thanks

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    哥特
    December 7th, 2008 9:41 pm

    太强大了~~~谢谢提供

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    Pritam
    December 8th, 2008 5:22 am

    simple Awesome !!!

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    Mario Koerbler
    December 8th, 2008 10:49 am

    Great sites, I love them!

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    hanuman prasad
    December 9th, 2008 8:45 am

    Really nice and cool
    XLNT—XLNT—XLNT
    Thanks for your help….

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    volc
    December 14th, 2008 7:10 pm

    一流的设计,谢谢

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    Intikhab Ahmad
    December 15th, 2008 2:02 am

    Thx a lot Dear

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    serrano
    December 15th, 2008 4:11 am

    muchisimas gracias por las plantillas¡¡¡

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    milan
    December 19th, 2008 1:33 am

    nice, nice and nice………………………………

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    Santosh
    December 26th, 2008 10:28 am

    Great collection.

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    HungamaOnline
    January 12th, 2009 1:18 am

    You guys always come up with cool and best stuff. Smashing i love u so much

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    4psd.com
    January 12th, 2009 4:39 pm

    nice!

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    durale
    January 17th, 2009 12:30 pm

    very nice selection, carry on I would like to find a css template like cisco.com or dell.com with a flash diaporama in the middle and a wide screeen…

    Do you know where I Would find such template ?

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    Luis|
    January 28th, 2009 3:11 pm

    I think that all is awesome but that a little of color in picture part but nothing more .. Note: amazing job!!!! congratulations!!. well see ya!!.

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    Michal
    January 29th, 2009 4:55 am

    Very nice collection! Thanks a lot.

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    Nura Grafix
    February 1st, 2009 5:50 am

    This is coooooooooolllllies 4rm cool guyz.

    hey ya !!!

    KUDOS !!!

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    Rudi
    February 1st, 2009 9:34 am

    You guys ROCKS. Your collections are always stunning.

    Thanks again best design blog.

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    DARWANS, TANGERANG
    February 3rd, 2009 8:03 am

    I love all of the templates.
    They’re amazing.
    Thank you
    Mercy
    Terimakasih

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    kkozwwa
    February 24th, 2009 11:11 pm

    good!!!!!

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    粽子
    February 25th, 2009 12:33 am

    They all are so beautiful, and free. Ah, i love em all.

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    Movie Gravity
    February 26th, 2009 2:31 pm

    WOW! Cool templates. Does anyone have an ideea how can I change the design from my site with one of these ? Thank you.

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    timmynaija
    March 9th, 2009 8:06 am

    I cant believe any where on earth will any one find this stuffs as free..
    Tons of wonderful templates an not just few.

    Sweden

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    Sargon
    March 10th, 2009 12:01 pm

    How can you add Tables to these?

    . . . I’m just kidding

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    dennis
    March 11th, 2009 1:47 pm

    Wow, I hear a lot of hate coming from designers fearing for their jobs. Get over it. When open source hit the developer world, I heard a lot of ‘oh its all just crap’ and the like out there… mainly from poor excuses for developers. Open source projects didn’t take away from the software world. They helped propel it forward. Instead of building things from scratch, you build on and integrate what’s out there. From a design perspective, these free templates aren’t replacing the job of a good designer: you still need art work, site layout and flow. If your job was just to solely produce CSS and templates like above, then up your skill set.

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    Patrick
    March 12th, 2009 8:58 am

    Good selection ! cheers …….

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    Tejas Desai
    March 16th, 2009 9:08 am

    I mean this is unbelievable Guys….
    Check this.

    Http://www.opensourcedeal.com

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    hareesh
    April 2nd, 2009 3:20 am

    awesome it is, any way best wishes

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    Nayana Adassuriya
    April 6th, 2009 8:34 pm

    really nice collection. keep on!!!!

    thanks.

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    Zeeshan
    April 19th, 2009 1:52 am

    Dear One! A very Gud Collection Of themes i found.I’m an undergraduate student.Making final project on Online auction system its my humble request to all of u that kindly submit some auction templates.i have’nt found ywet.plz help me

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    Brainwires
    April 23rd, 2009 1:45 pm

    Thanks for the awsome collection

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    jasonr
    April 27th, 2009 7:30 am

    Thanks for the good ideas and freebies. Many more thanks to the folks who did not lock these templates away.

    To those who think everything everywhere on the www should be for cash… Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, guys. And we ‘learn by teaching’. Want to up the value of your product? Get people hooked on it just like the developers of these CSS sheets.
    You know they’re picking up a few hits just by being out there.

    I’ve seen several of these templates that make me say to myself ‘Ooo, yeah, I want one like that… but… how do I make my logo (or button, or header, or image…) look like… ‘
    Each template is a great start but none is an end unto itself.

    I guess I’ll end up hiring somebody who can turn my name into a cool icon, like Don Capones stuff… probably, I’ll hire one of the folks who doesn’t mind teaching me how it works while they’re at it!

    Keep up the great work! Cheeers!
    Jason R.

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    Marc Chilcote
    April 30th, 2009 12:26 am

    Nice collection, I found some cool freebies here http://www.dreamlinestudio.com/freetemplates.php

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    ;l
    May 4th, 2009 9:09 am

    vet bedagt geef me je bron en je schripts’.’

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    Arto
    May 4th, 2009 12:52 pm

    very thanks – it’s very nice templates

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    Marizell
    May 16th, 2009 8:42 am

    Hi in this page there are wonderfull design is great

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    Loki
    June 9th, 2009 2:56 pm

    A nice collection mate thank you theres a few i havent seen there before. :)

    so..guess this is where i become the evil guy…I run a template customisation company. Yer i wont use any of those dew to legal issues etc :)

    Now i dont see why so many of you believe templates or people such as my self are evil as templates help get alot of small buisnesses (that wouldnt normaly be able to afford some of the crazy prices some designers charge) online. This in its self is what the web is all about!

    The more people and buisnesses that start using the web the better for designers and developers in the end. My company also offers custome designs from scratch and about 60% of my clients that start out with a cheep template site end up paying for a custome job within a year as they have found things worked out online. now as i have around 200 clients a month thats alot of people that are now after custom designs that before would never have even thought of paying out so much money.

    Also if you think the only reason 80% of websites on the web look the same is becoase of templates then you really do live in your own little world. ever heard the saying “there is no original thought left in the world” well its true, infact its almost impossible for there to be as our brains hae to get the idea from some where (and yes that is a proven fact) granted over the years there have been a small hand full of people that have come up with somthing new, picasson, d’vinci etc. (dew to use of areas of the brain most of us dont use) so..look at your time line and see how far appart those two fellas where…think there are enough people around at the moment to design all fresh, new designs for web sites?

    If you thinks your one then please send me an email pmooreimages@aol.com and i will quite happily find an example that your not.

    (btw i only charge $60 for a 10 page site customisation and $120 for an ecommerce site so im not all that evil ;)

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    风卫
    June 17th, 2009 6:14 pm

    非常感谢,呵呵

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    jumi
    June 19th, 2009 1:47 am

    very nice collection… thank you very much

    Quality Web Design

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    Jairo G
    July 10th, 2009 8:35 pm

    Hello, excelent post, Thankyou for you time and share this layouts, Regards from Colombia

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    Bruno Rogério
    July 25th, 2009 6:47 am

    Beuatiful!!!!
    Very great!

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    lang0807
    July 31st, 2009 1:30 am

    great!!!!got it!!

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    Rajendra Dhakal
    August 9th, 2009 2:12 am

    it’s very nice templates

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    Toni
    August 11th, 2009 9:36 am

    Thank you very much!!!
    Great templates.

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    Azamat
    October 13th, 2009 5:56 am

    Great templates!

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    Aman
    October 28th, 2009 6:42 am

    good!Beuatiful!!!!

    简洁漂亮!

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    Chris
    November 16th, 2009 4:14 am

    This is the best template site.
    Very good!

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