1. oswd.org
This site currently has 2080 free designs, its mission is to help make the internet a prettier place. You will find web design from the intricate and stunning to the simple and well laid out. You can browse by favorites, all , or search. Each template details number of views, comments made and the number of downloads. You can add your rating for individual templates via a 5 star system.
2. opendesigns.org
A community providing 1527 free open source website templates over 55 pages, you can view details of each design for: age, validation, license, columns, contrast, width and colours. An active forum is available for your questions and information.
3. openwebdesign.org
You’ll find over 3707 designs available for download via search or browse facility at this site. Designs are categorized as either fun or business. The search facility allows a good range of specificity in what you are seeking.
4. oswt.co.uk
Here you’ll discover 267 free open source XHTML CSS templates with 100% W3C validity. It contains both frameworks for pages and CSS Menus as well as fully designed web templates. You can browse or use the search feature that allows you to select parameters including W3C validation type, accessibility, CSS and images .
The option of template layouts and CSS menus provides much greater flexibility and freedom than fully developed designs, not if you are only looking for ready to go designs. It also offers links to some interesting and potentially useful online tools ie: CSS Formatter and Optimiser; Web Form Factory and a PHP Object Generator.
5. csstinderbox.com
This is another site for those a little more confidence and ready to try a more hands on approach to design. It provides very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates as a framework or foundation for building your own web design, as well as some fully designed templates.
6. themebot.com
You’ll find a wealth of choice at this site with 6599 templates, skins, themes and layouts for HTML, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, e107, SMF, XOOPS, PhpBB, Flash and Myspace. Go to downloads on the menu bar then website templates. All free templates are easily accessible via graphical buttons for the particular platform designed for. Each thumbnail contains the usual information on columns, width, layout, W3S validity and a 5 star rating system.
7. opensourcetemplates.org
While this site claims to be the original site for open source templates is contains 20 fully designed templates, and the link to the wordpress templates actually links to a vector art site with interesting visuals. Still in the 20 open source templates you may find one that is right for your purposes.
I hope you’ll enjoy taking a journey around these open source website template sites and that within them you’ll find some inspiration, some learning and something that strikes you as a good fit for your next site.
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