Pre-made web design templates save both time and money. I've collected a list of websites who offer free (aka open source) web design templates.
Free web design templates allow me to offer my services at a reduced rate. This is because I don't have to get a graphic designer to create a design for the website. Also templates are already mocked-up in html so it is easy to fix up the mistakes and create a CMS template.
I've try to keep my list clean of sites which offer non-valid, crummy looking templates. Remember: you get what you pay for.
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30+ Free HTML email templates
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HongKiat
60 High Quality Free Web Templates
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SkinPress
These are skinpress's free wordpress themes, they also have premium available.
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Zimplit
There are some interesting designs here, that don't take much to fix up.
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Rocket Theme
They have a club membership but do give a few free templates.
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Free CSS
They offer paid and free templates
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Template World - Free Templates
This site was mentioned on Smashing Magazine, and now I'm mentioning it. It is good! The only problem, you have to translate the content into English (Which is find as you were not going to keep the default content anyway).
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Free CSS Templates
Just took a glance at this one, but I'll be back here for sure.
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Joomla Shack
Free Joomla Templates and Themes for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5
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Open Web Design
One of the most popular Free template sites around.
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Free Template Desings
Your standard free design website, but you can search by colour.
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Open Design Community
The most popular open design site with over 1,300 templates.
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Open Source Web Design
By far the most popular free template site on the net.
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Free CSS templates
These templates are not very good, but they are free!
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Open Source Templates
A popular site with free CSS and XHTML Website Templates
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Solucija
CSS templates, for free!
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Themetation
This site has both free and premium themes, but lack selection.
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Mantis-a templates
Plain but useful free web templates. Also some wordpress templates elsewhere on the site.
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Best of Joomla
Really good templates and free!
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Fox Theme
About 11 free templates here.
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Free CSS Templates
There are a few good ones here, I'm sure it will make your bookmark list.
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Wordpress Themes Free
There are a lot of nice free Wordpress templates here
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Joomla Designs - Free Joomla Templates
This site is hard to navigate, previews are poor, but the templates are FREE! Templates for both 1.0 and 1.5.
Hand Picked Designs
I very often stumbleUpon articles which list an authors favourite Free CSS templates. I'd like to share those articles with you now. This should save you time from weeding through the above sites if you are not looking for something specific.
- 101 high quality Css and xhtml templates
- 100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates
- Techpp.com - 27 free wordpress themes
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