A ton of nice templates here. Cool!!

. :-) Stunning collection of templates

A beautiful and highly useful compilation! Great work guys.

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

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!

Genius

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

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

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

Very helpful! thanks

So…many…templates O_o

Are they all cross-browser compatible?

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

Pure.Evil.

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… Link [demusdesign.com]?)

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.

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

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

nice collection there !! very smashing magazine indeed !!

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

cupidnouva

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.

very nice

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.)

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?

Exelent =)) !

Excellent selection of templates! Thank you very much!

wow….
It’s nice list :)

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

gr8 collection !!

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

thank you very much:)

Fine selection.

beautiful

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

Very cool and intresting post. i love it.

These templates are not supposed to be copied…

Great joke. You’re killing me.

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 :-)

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

Thanks for giving such good stuff.

Thx for the great List! Awesome!

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 :)

Very cool templates…. molto bene!

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

Big thx man!

THANKS !! xmas came early!

Nice Collections.. Thanks

what a listing :D
thank you very much

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

Very nice templates.

Next time don’t forget about
Link [csstemplatesmarket.com] :)
Thanks

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.

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@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”

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

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thanks, smashing rocks !

Looks like Interlude theme ported from Drupal :)
Nice!

Nice well.

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!!!

great designs here, i njoyed alot

Thanks you

People sure do whine a lot about free stuff…

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?

Now this is just AWESOME!!!

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!

wow, good design is conquering the web! :)

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.

fantastic! thanks!

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

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?

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

Really nice collection, thank you very much.

Thank you so much! totally agree with frog.

Some of these are even better than those which cost.

thanks you so much!

Good templates designed with CSS are hard to come by & these are brilliant Link [www.onlinesynergy.net] »

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

Good idea !

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

amazing summary. sure a lotta work. thx !

very nice - thanks a lot

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

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.

very atractive
Nice post
nice template
Link [www.template-holic.blogspot.com]

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.

Awesome designs..!

good job. thanks a lot smash!

exellent

Very nice list of quality templates. Thanks.

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

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

wow a lot of cool template, thanks

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simple Awesome !!!

Great sites, I love them!

Really nice and cool
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Thanks for your help….

一流的设计，谢谢

Thx a lot Dear

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nice, nice and nice………………………………

Great collection.

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

nice!

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 ?

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!!.

Very nice collection! Thanks a lot.

This is coooooooooolllllies 4rm cool guyz.

hey ya !!!

KUDOS !!!

You guys ROCKS. Your collections are always stunning.

Thanks again best design blog.

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

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

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

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

Sweden

How can you add Tables to these?

. . . I’m just kidding

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.

Good selection ! cheers …….

I mean this is unbelievable Guys….
Check this.

Http://www.opensourcedeal.com

awesome it is, any way best wishes

really nice collection. keep on!!!!

thanks.

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

Thanks for the awsome collection

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.

Nice collection, I found some cool freebies here Link [www.dreamlinestudio.com]

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very thanks - it’s very nice templates

Hi in this page there are wonderfull design is great

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 Link [] 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 ;)

非常感谢，呵呵

very nice collection… thank you very much

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