SEO Expert Blog

About 6 weeks ago I published an article introducing some valuable online resources for free Web designs. In the meantime I came across more sites that offer free templates, themes, skins, or however you want to call them, for download.

Free CSS Templates

All of the resources listed below offer free downloads, browsing and live previews of templates. Some sites feature CSS templates from various designers and offer designers to upload their own templates. Each site is briefly described.

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.

Did I already mention that Drupal is a really cool CMS or should I call it Web application framework? One of the features that sets Drupal apart from many other open source projects is its taxonomy system. With Drupal you can easily categorize content using vocabularies and terms.

For SEO Expert Blog I have set up one free tagging vocabulary called keywords. Each time I write a new post I can enter tags that will be added to the vocabulary if they do not yet exist. These tags are displayed as links in each post. They link to a teaser list of posts tagged with this term. A great way to set up relations between your posts.

yigg.de is a German language social news community that resembles digg.com in many aspects. To add an interactive yigg.de button (also see diggthis), I added the following code in my theme:

Osskins is a free repository for the newest Joomla templates, Wordpress and Drupal themes. The preview image gallery is a good starting point for exploring this cool site.

Visitors can download templates and vote on them. In case there is a live demo a link is provided.