Free Website Templates
What is a Website Template?
In case you're wondering, a website template is like a ready-made web page that you can use and reuse to create one or more pages for your website. This will allow you to whip up a website quick and easy and will essentially free you from the hassle having to create the page layout, select backgrounds, select font styles, color-coordinate everything, decide what to put where, decide whether it will all work, etc.
With one of these free website templates, all you have to do is supply some content (either text and/or graphics) and insert it in the appropriate places in the HTML source code and then presto. Instant web page. You can use the same template for all the pages on your website to give it a uniform appearance.
How to Get a Free Website Template
The free templates are available for previewing and downloading on the following pages:
Free Personal Website Templates
These 7 templates are the latest additions to my collection here at Iron Spider. These are all 2-column web page layouts with a fixed width style some of which —like the example on the left— feature the spectacular photography of .Free Easy Website Templates
Here are some simple 3-column web templates. All these layouts will expand or contract according to the viewer's screen resolution which is commonly referred to as a liquid display. These web designs also feature gradient header backgrounds which make them easy to fit in with any website theme.Free Business Website Templates 1 (Standard)
These are 2-column and 3-column templates intended for small business websites. (But this is only a suggested use. If you want to use one for your personal website, no problem.) Some are liquid displays, some are fixed-width displays and some feature a nice drop-shadow effect.Free Business Website Templates 2 (DHTML Menu Effects)
Here are some more 2-column website templates all using fixed-width displays and designed with the small business entrepreneur in mind (once again, only a suggested use). All these web layouts feature DHTML menu rollover effects.Free Professional Website Templates
Here are some more 2-column fixed-width web page layouts which are a little more progressive in nature while still retaining a professional look. These can be used for both business and personal websites (although some of them may be a little over the top for a personal site).
Free Website Template Downloads
Unless otherwise specified, all these free website template zip file downloads contain at least the following:
index.htmmain.csstemp-header-bg.jpgORtemp-header-bg.gifadd-logo.jpgORadd-logo.gifadd-logo.psdadd-logo.pspimage
For a more detailed rundown, please see Template Zip File Download.
Getting started
To turn your free template zip file into a kick-butt website, all you need to do is:
- Download the zip file.
- Unzip it to any directory (requires zip file program).
- Open the
index.htmfile in any HTML editor (like HTML Kit) or any text editor (like Windows Notepad). Delete the filler text and type in some of your own. - Open the header background graphic (header-bg) in any graphics editor and add your website logo. If you don't have a graphics editor then you check out my list of free graphics editors.
Free Website Templates Help
Don't have a zip file program?
You can do one of the following:
- Download EasyZip — EasyZip is a powerful and easy-to-use zip and unzip utility for Windows.
- Download the trial version of WinZip — This is the more popular and full featured zip file utility.
That's it.
Enjoy!
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