Open Source Web Design Free Templates
Maybe you have been thinking for a while about creating your own website, but have no idea how the design should look like, or no talent to create a stunning design for the site.
The open source web design site offers you more than 1500 free templates that you can download right from the site to use in your own web projects. You can browse their designs by rating, date or name. Every page shows thumbnails that visualize the design, and options to view the template in fullscreen or download it directly.
I'm coding websites in a regular text editor but you can of course use tools like Dreamweaver instead to alter the text and the layout of the templates that you have downloaded.
Update: The site has reached the 2000 free design marks, and while that is impressive enough, its developers have also modified the design of their own site. When you now open the site in your browser, you see the latest designs displayed on the frontpage.
On the left links lead to various site sections like premium designs or favorite designs. You also find the most popular designs linked here, which may be a good starting point for new site users as it can give you an impression of the quality of web templates offered here.
Downloads usually include HTML and CSS files to get you started. You can load those files into a plain text editor or HTML/CSS editor to make modifications to the design or contents.
Update 2: The last designs that have been uploaded to the site date back to 2007, which indicates issues with the site. It is likely that its developers have abandoned it. While you won't find recent designs anymore on the site, you can still download and use the old designs that have been uploaded to it.
Another option that you have is to sign up for a hosted solution, say on WordPress.com as it provides you with your own Internet website in an automated fashion. You can still change the theme of the website and make a couple of modifications to it. While you do not get the same freedom that you have when you create a design from scratch or host it on your own web hosting account or server, it is the easier option to get started without having to think for a second about coding, altering files or uploading them to a web server.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.