CSS Galleries: Free Web Designs for Download

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CSS Galleries: Free Web Designs for Download

Posted: Sat 06/09/2007 by ramiro

A visually appealing website design will not result in lots of recurring visitors if you don't have good content. In contrast bad, old-fashioned, or boring designs may well be accepted by a loyal readership if you have good content. To have both good content and a good design is invaluable.

People who want to publish on the web do not need any knowledge of HTML, CSS and the like to get a site up and running. Many providers offer one-click installs of systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. Learning how to configure these systems will take some time but it is manageable.

As the headline tells this post is not about writing good content but about where to find good web designs that give your site a catchy look and feel.

Free Web design Galleries

All of the resources listed below offer free downloads, browsing and most of them search functions. Moreover there are previews for the designs, so you can test them in different browsers to see how they look and behave. When sites offer advanced functions such as filtering search results, I describe them briefly.

Open Web Design

Open Web Design offers an advanced search to restrict type of validation (various versions of HTML/XHTML strict, transitional), contrast (dark on light, light on dark), primary and secondary colors, and categories.

Open Design Community

Open Design Community is a group of Open Source Website designers. They offer an advanced search to restrict type of validation (versions XHTML strict, transitional), license (Public Domain, GPL, Creative Commons), contrast (dark on light, light on dark), width (fixed, fluid), Number of columns, colors, designers and free search terms.

CSS Design Templates

CSS Design Templates has sections for generic templates, Wordpress themes, Joomla, and Blogger templates.

Free CSS Templates

Free CSS Templates currently offers a small number of free generic and Joomla templates. Moreover they have sections linking design tutorials and about CSS techniques.

Free CSS Templates

Another Site called free Free CSS Templates. Currently they do not offer a search so you might want to use Google's site search feature. Currently they have 192 free CSS templates for download.

Open Source Web Design

Open Source Web Design currently offers more than 2000! free web design templates for download and live preview. Using the advanced search function you can set filters for type of validation (versions XHTML strict, transitional), whether images and CSS are used, contrast (dark on light, light on dark), Number of columns, and colors.

Solucija

Solucija is a site dedicated to information architecture, web standards and web design. They offer some truly professional looking free templates for download.

Open Source Templates

Open Source Templates offers download and preview of Open Source templates. Registered users can vote on templates. Templates with the highest vote appear on the front page.

Free CMS Themes and Templates

The web design resources listed above all offer generic templates for download. In this section I'll list some sites that offer templates and themes for Open Source content management, forum and blogging systems such as e107, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Fusion, phpBB, PHPNuke, vBulletin, Wordpress, and Xoops.

themesBase

themesBase offers templates and themes for some of the most popular content management, blogging, and forum systems, each of which has it's own dedicated section.

Free CMS Templates and Themes for Download

OSSkins

OSSkins of Joomla templates, Drupal and Wordpress themes for download and preview. Each of these 3 systems has it's own dedicated section on the site.

Free Joomla templates, Drupal and Wordpress themes

Drupal Theme Garden

Drupal Theme Garden is a live showcase of themes available for Drupal 4.7.x and Drupal 5.x. Themes can be previewed on Theme Garden and downloaded from the linked Drupal theme project page.

Wordpress Theme Viewer

Wordpress Theme Viewer offers live previews and downloads of Wordpress themes. You can set filters for Number of columns, colors, rounded corners, whether plugins are required and widgets can be used.

Summary

This list is not all-embracing, but the resources listed are impressive and definitely worth checking out. If you are a designer yourself, you probably find new sources of inspiration. Enjoy these sites and the great free web designs they offer for download!

Recommended Web design Books

For those who want to create their own unique web design with HTML and CSS, and don't know where to start, I recommend these books, I enjoyed reading very much. The links below are affiliate links pointing to the respective Amazon book pages.

Submitted by Ehestifter (not verified) on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 08:59.

Super Links. Thank you!!!

Submitted by Live tv (not verified) on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 15:13.

Great selection, the open source ones are actually quite professional.

Submitted by Newshot (not verified) on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 15:20.

I didn't look through all the sites yet, but they do look good. Thanks.

Which site(s) can help with creating free forums? Templates or whatever.

Submitted by Scott S (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 06:04.

Very nice thanks im trying to learn css and this helps alot when i can look to see how css can be applied

Submitted by Motorcycle Guy (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 13:33.

These are some great sites! thanks!

Submitted by Free Templates (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 20:10.

Another resource that provides free CSS templates can be found here: http://www.free-css-templates.co.uk/

There are over 600 templates that can be downloaded for free, all of them are based on CSS.

Submitted by idebagus (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 20:43.

Geez I never knew there are so many nowadays. Great find and hopefully more are coming.

Submitted by syahid ali (not verified) on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 07:01.

super links with superb designs! thanks a bunch!

Submitted by g (not verified) on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 05:24.

great selection, now I don't have to start from scratch.

Submitted by Myo Kyaw Htun (not verified) on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 02:36.

I did not spam. Why you deleted my comment ? :(

Submitted by ramiro on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 21:41.

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Submitted by SEO Position (not verified) on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 23:18.

Good list. You beat me to this post! I was going to do one very similar but perhaps I'll add quite a bit to mine and make it a mammoth list. MOOOHH HAH HAH HAH!! ;-)

Submitted by Sharebrain (not verified) on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 23:49.

Thx for this list. And even more templates sites u can find here. Maybe you find it useful : http://www.sharebrain.info/website-templates-c-52.html Greetings, thomas

Submitted by hrvoje461 (not verified) on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 02:27.

There is another website with more than 50 free css templates You can download free css templates at http://www.getcsstemplates.com

Submitted by pat (not verified) on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 15:12.

there are many out there that provide cool templates, but the ones from www.drupal.org originally stand out.

Submitted by CSS Blog (not verified) on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 02:35.

Thanks man, just what I was looking for.

Web Design

Submitted by Steve (not verified) on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 14:41.

Very nice list, used a couple of the sites before, always handy to have a few more for when you are trying to find that right one.

Submitted by Donald Mckenzie Jr (not verified) on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 22:56.

Thank you soooo much for this list. It has halped me out a lot. Keep up the great work!

Submitted by sunder (not verified) on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 08:08.

free css list always good....but i found this post is very usefull..thanqs for the links

Submitted by mustaffa (not verified) on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 08:05.

i need to publish a well designed website so i do know some about web designing that is why i can do everything as i like.

Submitted by tobto (not verified) on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 11:17.

thats cool, but very rare valid multibrowser code can be found.

Submitted by idwebhost (not verified) on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 16:12.

Nice CSS galleries, thankyou very much. This post really help me find good design for my projects.

Submitted by Kirsten (not verified) on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 16:14.

Hi, very nice summary for free css files and design. I admit your work of collection them all together. Best regards Kirsten

Submitted by Greg (not verified) on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 22:20.

Yup, the combination of good content and visually friendly website will make for repeat visitors. My buddy was running this gamer site that didn't look that great in the beginning but once he redesigned the viewers sky rocketed.

Submitted by Web designer (not verified) on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 14:41.

To my mind it is better to have both a well-written content and professional web design. That make your site perfect. What do you think?

Submitted by Irene Chan, M.S., REALTOR® (not verified) on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 06:17.

Many thanks. This saves a lot of time. Some great designs, even one available for a realtor. Cheers, Irene

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 07:48.

Thanks for the resources holmez :) *Bookmark*

Submitted by n252 (not verified) on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 00:12.

Open Source Web Design has very cool designs aslo http://www.wordpressthemespark.com/ has many nice wordpress themes

Submitted by website design (not verified) on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 10:00.

Nice CSS galleries, thank you very much. This post really help me find good design for my projects.

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