Way back when, OSWD.org was the place for free templates. Most were public domain or had GPL-type licenses, and it was a great way to get a site up and running with an attractive layout.<\/p>\n
OSWD hasn’t been actively maintained for a long time, but OpenDesigns.org<\/a> and GetFreeWebDesigns.com<\/a> have replaced it. Quality varies; some are amazing, some are mediocre. But for the price, you can’t really complain. It’s worth noting that many are not<\/em> free (as in speech); they often require attribution or similar. This may or may not matter. (For something like my site, I gladly left the linkback in the footer. If I were designing a commercial site, I wouldn’t be so comfortable with that.)<\/p>\n I bought a template from OneDollarTemplates.com<\/a> a while back. I was pleased. (Especially given the price!)<\/p>\n Today, I just discovered Theme Forest<\/a>, where a lot of extraordinarily talented designers sell excellent templates for low prices. Columns<\/a> is an amazing blog template, for example; Nova<\/a> and Liberation<\/a> are quite something, too. And Blue Business<\/a>. Dezineplus<\/a> is superb. Really, most everything there is pretty fantastic.<\/p>\n From the comments on one of the designs, I found another tip: the free Nevis font<\/a> is an approximation of the commercial Gotham font. Ten by Twenty<\/a> has several other great fonts, too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Way back when, OSWD.org was the place for free templates. Most were public domain or had GPL-type licenses, and it was a great way to get a site up and running with an attractive layout. OSWD hasn’t been actively maintained … Continue reading