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A ton of nice templates here. Cool!!

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

Genius

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

Very helpful! thanks

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

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?)

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.

nice collection there !! very smashing magazine indeed !!

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.

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.)

Exelent =)) !

wow….
It’s nice list :)

gr8 collection !!

thank you very much:)

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

These templates are not supposed to be copied…

Great joke. You’re killing me.

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

Thx for the great List! Awesome!

Very cool templates…. molto bene!

Big thx man!

Nice Collections.. Thanks

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

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

Looks like Interlude theme ported from Drupal :)
Nice!

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.

great designs here, i njoyed alot

Thanks you

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?

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!

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.

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

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

Thank you so much! totally agree with frog.

Some of these are even better than those which cost.

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

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

very nice – thanks a lot

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.

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.

good job. thanks a lot smash!

Very nice list of quality templates. Thanks.

wow a lot of cool template, thanks

Great sites, I love them!

一流的设计，谢谢

muchisimas gracias por las plantillas¡¡¡

Great collection.

nice!

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!!.

This is coooooooooolllllies 4rm cool guyz.

hey ya !!!

KUDOS !!!

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

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

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

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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.

I mean this is unbelievable Guys….
Check this.

Http://www.opensourcedeal.com

really nice collection. keep on!!!!

thanks.

Thanks for the awsome collection

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

Hi in this page there are wonderfull design is great

非常感谢，呵呵

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

great！！！！got it！！

Thank you very much!!!
Great templates.

good!Beuatiful!!!!

简洁漂亮！

Thx wery nice templates

thank you for all….

gracias me ha sido muy util para crear mi primera pagina web. un millon de gracias.

great site with very nice htmls. thank you.

Very Good Information Site.
Will tell all to visit this site.
Thanks,
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Hi.
thx for templates.
please chose the best premiume templates for free. it soooo good
GOD DAMND

Excelente aporte … Me gustaria saber si se puede implementar una plantilla de estas con sus respectivos cambios para subirla a la web.

Gracias !!!