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. Links checked: Nov/21st. 2008.
Free CSS-Based Design Templates
- Free CSS Templates
There are 105 CSS Templates in the database at the moment. - Art for the web
Free web templates
- TemplatesBox
Free Website Templates, Free Photoshop Web Templates - Template Monster
Web Templates, Flash Templates, Website Templates Design - TemplateNavigator
Free Web Templates | Free Flash Templates. TemplateNavigator.com is the largest on the net catalogue of free and professional website templates and free flash templates. - DotcomWebDesign Providing free site layouts, web page layouts, website templates & site templates for the free Content Management System, cmsimple.
Feng-GUI is a free web based service that enables you to view: “which areas of an UI is getting the most attention when an user looks at it in 5 seconds”.
With an artificial intelligence behind, the service generates a heatmap over an image uploaded.
Generated heatmap’s opacity can be changed for a better view & can be viewed in a bigger modal window or downloaded.
Feng-GUI is very handy to get another thought -about a user interface designed- other than the collagues, customers..
Website: http://www.feng-gui.com/
Thoughtpile is a challenging project that gives you the chance to win a new Embody chair by Hermon Miller. Participate by adding your thoughts to the pile.
Link: http://www.thoughtpile.org/
FusionCharts Free is a charting component for creating good looking, data-driven & free animated flash charts.
It can be used with PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations.
The component is the free version of FusionCharts & missing some features when compared with the paid one. But it is still powerful & supports:
- 2D / 3D column & bar charts
- 2D/3D pie & doughnut charts
- Line charts
- Area charts
- Stacked charts
- Gantt charts & more..
Another nice feature is the ability to combine different chart types in one chart.
Sometimes, when you are about to design, a well-designed object can easily inspire you. And, using such objects:
- save you time
- improve the overall quality of the design (in general)
- help you to improve yourself by seeing how it is done & more..
This is a collection of 30+ free & various vector object sets to help you create better. Here they are:
Page Curls In Vector:
Ecology Vector Set:
Vector Ink Splatters:
BrandX Pictures – Speed
50 UHQ RGB JPEG Images | 4075×3305 Pixels | 45 MB
Professional Photocliparts – Speed
Weather icons are very handy when displaying the weather status, generating a weather based content & more.
You can even customize the look of your website according to the weather conditions (CSS-Tricks has a nice tutorial on this).
There are beautiful free weather condition icons that can be used. Here is a collection of them:
Glossy Weather Icons
Set contains 22 glossy weather icons.
Sizes are 16*16px to 128*128px. They are in both ICO & PNG format.
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