60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts

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In terms of creating a website (corporate or personal) it don’t have to be coded from scratch anymore. That means you probably don’t have to start from a blank .PHP, .CSS or .HTML document. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are distributed freely over the Internet.

Even if you are not too familiar with web designing, you too can have a professionally looking website. All you need to do is find a suitable template, tweak the designs and styles, pump in your contents. There are tonnes of templates sites out there, that makes searching for a free yet high quality templates hard and tedious, so we attempted to collect and showcase you some of really good ones. Here, we proudly present 60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts, a great reference for anyone who wants to create a website, even it’s just a small one.

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38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates

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A friend once asked “why do you still surf for web templates when you can create one?“. I answered, for fun. But then again I start to ponder and realiazed even if we are capable to create, there are still many great reasons to check out free templates out there.

Thanks to many of the generous souls, most of these web templates found online are no longer the same. A lot of them are high quality, XHTML compliant, cross-browser compatible and comes with Photoshop .PSD files. As a developer cum designer myself, I wouldn’t say you should get a nice free template and implement directly, but rather, check out the structure, design and codes. Labeling, naming, styling and structuring are what interest me more, and I’m pretty sure there’s more if dug deeper.

Without further ado, here’s (another) 38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates, and I’ve previously showcased 60 High Quality Free Web Templates, that makes it close to 100 piece of nice templates in the archive. Full list after jump.
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HTML5 and The Future of the Web

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Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard all the blogging chatter surrounding the “new hotness” that is HTML5. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news.

Things like jQuery plugins, formatting techniques, and design trends change very quickly throughout the Web community. And for the most part we’ve all accepted that some of the things we learn today can be obsolete tomorrow, but that’s the nature of our industry.

When looking for some stability, we can usually turn to the code itself as it tends to stay unchanged for a long time (relatively speaking). So when something comes along and changes our code, it’s a big deal; and there are going to be some growing pains we’ll have to work through. Luckily, rumor has it, that we have one less change to worry about.

In this article, I’m hoping to give you some tips and insight into HTML5 to help ease the inevitable pain that comes with transitioning to a slightly different syntax.
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