Open source webtemplates

[NtodaS]

There are some site's like http://oswd.org that provide free templates madeby users. Some actually are very good and made for optimal usage. Does anyone ever use these kinds of templates? or do you make /let make everything yourself?

list of links to OS template sites:
http://andreasviklund.com/templates/
http://oswd.org
http://lilly.csoft.net/~vdebaere/projecten/templates/

 

[joe]

I really like the free templates at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List. They have some high quality ones there.

 

[peach]

I believe in making unique designs for each site, it's a form a branding.

 

[a.titus1]

Agreed with Peach, but those sites are a nice resource to start getting ideas from. I find I cant really come up with something from scratch, so I tend to browse around to get ideas.

 

[NtodaS]

Me too i browse around them, They often give inspiration and show the build of it's layout blocks very clearly in css.

 

[peach]

Agreed with Peach, but those sites are a nice resource to start getting ideas from. I find I cant really come up with something from scratch, so I tend to browse around to get ideas.

For ideas I often bookmark beautiful sites and browse through those, I have them sorted by year so I also get a nice styling trends archive.

I think I have about 200 nice sites bookmarked now.

 

[VinSVT]

I think some of those are great for getting a website off the ground or for a turnkey, but to me having your own design will pay off in the end.

 

[NtodaS]

OS templates might deliver a very good fundament for a website. With some tweaking and tuning you can make it pretty different and still have the basic layout. I think for small projects these layouts are great.

 

[V12Kid]

I believe in making unique designs for each site, it's a form a branding.

agreed but sometimes you can get away with a template, all dpends on what your doing with it

 

[donn]

I believe in making unique designs for each site, it's a form a branding.

Unique is better in seo no matter what the situation. Design. Content. Marketing Strategy. Adwords strategy.

 

[Dave]

I used free templates ages ago, mainly the ones with the iFrames, but i always end up designing my sites myself, feels so much better for ppl to comment nicely on ur own creation.

 

[NtodaS]

I used free templates ages ago, mainly the ones with the iFrames, but i always end up designing my sites myself, feels so much better for ppl to comment nicely on ur own creation.

Yeah that's true, but when i use a template i moderate is so much it doesn;t even look like the original anymore.