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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.

According to 37 organic search engine optimization experts the Keyword Use in Title Tag is the number one of the positive factors that influence the search engine ranking of a page.

When I search for something and see the result page the first thing I do is take a look at the titles of the linked pages, than I look at the URLs before I actually click on one of the links. Titles and URLs often reveal more than just whether the result may be good or not.

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.

In this video tutorial Michael Gray from Graywolf's SEO Blog explains how to avoid duplicate content in your wordpress blog. One technique is to deny certain sections from being spidered by search engines, for example the archive section. The information given can of course also be applied to other content management systems, such as Drupal or Joomla.

Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress are very popular and powerful content management systems. They are all written in PHP, support the MySQL DBMS and are built on a modular architecture that allows for extending them with additional functionality.

There are hundreds of free add-ons (modules, components, plugins) available for each of these three systems. Some of them are especially useful when it comes to optimizing your website for search engines.