In terms of creating a website  it dont 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 or 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 its just a small one.

Greefies
This is a template that uses no tables, css and HTML only.
Demo | Download

Beauty co
Demo | Download

Beez design
Demo | Download

Compressed v2
A three-column, fixed-width template fit for 1024×768 screen resolutions.
Demo | Download

Jet 30 v2
Jet 30 is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layout by Template World.
Demo | Download

Individual v2
Individual is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layout by.
Demo | Download

Redish
Demo | Download

Facing
Demo | Download

Update
Demo | Download

Temper
Demo | Download

RS11
XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0, No Javascript
Demo | Download

Imagination
Demo | Download

Stylish
Demo | Download

Simple Life 2.0
Demo | Download

Green House
The Green House is a free template from Free CSS Templates released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
Demo | Download

Snowglass 1.0
A free, fully standards-compliant CSS template designed by NodeThirtyThree for Free CSS Templates.
Demo | Download

Nightvision
Demo | Download

Glazed
Demo | Download

FrozenAge
Demo | Download

Earthling
Demo | Download

Keep It Simple
A grid-based, minimalist website template. Ideal for news websites and blogs with lots of contents.
Demo | Download

Vectorlover

A modern and stylish theme design which uses a combination of brown, green and gray colors. Has a fixed width and two-column layout. Ideal for personal and small websites.
Demo | Download

UrbanArtist
A light on dark template. Has a fixed width, two columns layout. The design is a combination of a dark background and bright colored text and headers.
Demo | Download

Techjunkie
Features a clean and modern design. Ideal for blogs and small websites. It has a 2 columns, fixed-width layout and uses a combination of blue, light green and muted colors.
Demo | Download

Unbound 1.0
A three-columns, fixed width CSS template suitable for blogs and news sites. It features a nice, clean design with an image header that can be easily replaced or modified.
Demo | Download

Colourise
Colourise 1.0 is a free, W3C-compliant, CSS-based website template by styleshout.com.
Demo | Download

Freshmedia
This website template features a simple and clean design. Has a two column layout and uses a combination of cool and muted colors
Demo | Download

EliteCircle
A fixed width, 2 column layout. This template features a simple, clean and classy design
Demo | Download

New Horizon
Fixed width, 2-column website template. A light on dark theme design with a nice colorful image header.
Demo | Download

Watch This
Demo | Download

Conceptnova
Demo | Download

Small Corporation
Demo | Download

Web Application
Demo | Download

Internet Studio
Demo | Download

Internet Corporation
Demo | Download

Internet Music
Demo | Download

Internet Market
Demo | Download

Organic Design
Demo | Download

New York Magazine
Demo | Download

Environmental Brand Design
Demo | Download

Eco Business
Demo | Download

The Autumn
Free web templates from kohout. See also Winter, Summer
Demo | Download

Green Web
Yet another free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layout by Template World.
Demo | Download

Breaking On Top
Demo | Download

Apple Web
Demo | Download

Wallpaper Medialab
Demo | Download

The Watch Shop
Demo | Download

My Personal Page
Demo | Download

Squick Design
This is a web template, featuring 3 separate pages: Home, contact and portfolio.
Demo | Download

Surreal
Demo | Download

Colorus
Demo | Download

Clicker
Demo | Download

PG Photo Gallery
PG Photo Gallery also comes in black color.
Demo | Download

Organic Beauty
Demo | Download

News Portal
Demo | Download

Electronix
Demo | Download

BuBlue
Demo | Download

HarvestField 1.0
A fixed width, two column, W3C compliant layout. Has a nice-looking design that uses natural earthy colors.
Demo | Download

Brightsideoflife
Demo | Download

Coolwater
A simple and clean design. Uses a combination of light blue and green colors. Has a fixed width, two-columns Layout.
Demo | Download

In this web roundup, we have handpicked some of the best free Flash photo galleries on the Internet. From web based scripts, to Flash components ready to be integrated on your website. And on top of that, we’ve also included some cool tutorials that will help you to learn how to create your own 2D and 3D Flash Galleries and how to turn it in a Flash Component.

FlashFlickr PhotoGallery

A gallery from Sephiroth.it, based on Flex and Actionscript 3.0 that uses the famous Flickr API.

Flashmo 3d Grid

Flashmo is a well known free flash templates site, where you can find several cool interfaces like this 3D Grid gallery.

 

PhotoDiary 1.0

PhotoDiary is a Flash based gallery, cool for people that don’t have flash skills or would like to have an application where easily could manage the photos on a normal php back end.

Tony Photo Album

FlashMo Stack Photo Gallery

Another cool gallery from FlashMo.

3D Album

This 3D album component is based on the bellow “Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite” tutorial .

Slideroll Gallery AV

Another very easy to manage flash gallery, that allows you to insert caption on each image.

WS-Slideshow

Imagin Flash Photo Gallery

FlashMo Circle Gallery

Art Flash Gallery

Zen Flash Gallery

Flash Mo Grid Gallery

AutoViewer

Cool gallery, with a very easy navigation and clean layout.

Flash Gallery

PostcardViewer

This gallery it causes a somewhat interactivity wit a cool zoom effect.

FlashMo Photo Gallery

InventMedia FlashGallery

dfGallery 2.0

A Dezinerfolio application, with lots of features ready to use. They have even included a cool video explaining how to install and customize this cool gallery.

Polaroid Gallery

This is an impressive image gallery that can load data either from a xml file or flickr rss. You can use it on a portfolio or something like that. This is an open-source application, so if you have some actionscript skills, you can add additional features to it.

Flash Image Gallery

Free Flash Gallery

Andrew Bergs Flash Photo Browser

A very cool interactive stack gallery.

flShow Carousel

A nice caroussel kind gallery.

Simple Viewer

Another cool gallery, ready to use.

Veppa Photo Album

XML Photo Album

Tutorials

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

This tutorial explain how to create an awesome Flash 3D Album using the FIVe3D framework and TweenLite.

Build a Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control

Another cool tutorial showing how to create a flash gallery controled by a slider and using xml data.

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D

A 3 part tutorial, creating from scratch a 3D application similar to the famous PicLens.

Flash Slideshow Image Gallery

Learn How-to Create Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and Flickr API

If you want to create your own gallery, or if you want to add some features to some of the above mentioned examples, why don’t you compile it as a flash component, ready to deploy in your following projects? And better than that, you can sale it in several sites such as the Adobe Exchange.

Christmas is getting close. Whether you are still in the midst of the last minute Christmas newsletter design, or just want to spice up the desktop a little bit, chances are theres always something for everyone. We are talking about the free Christmas related icons, vectors, fonts, wallpapers, tutorials, themes, etc created designers and shared all over the net. They are probably our early Santas.

Heres our final Christmas related entry - a mash-up of the Best Design Resources for Christmas around. If theres any we have missed, let us know in comment, we will add it in. Merry Christmas in advance.

1. Icons

PSDTOP: 25+ Beautiful Chrisstmas Icon Set

PSDTOP would like to present especially for you 25+ Beautiful Christmas Icon Sets which you can use for your web site or your desktop.

Web Design Ledger: 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets

Web Design Ledger presents you 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets to put you in the Christmas spirit.

 

aComment: 13 Elegant Free Christmas Icon set in PNG/Gif

aComment showcased some elegant and high quality Christmas icons which lets you use them in your websites easily.

Design Bliss: 10 Sets of Beautiful Free Christmas Icons from deviantART

Design Bliss has hand-picked 10 sets of beautiful Christmas icons from deviantART and they’re all FREE!

Smashing Magazine: Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

Photoshop Roadmap: Nice List of Christmas Tutorials, Brushes, Clipart and Icons

Photoshop Roadmap built this list gathering some new (and old) Christmas related tutorials, brushes, cliparts and icons for personal use..

Vu Nguyen: 20 Beautiful Christmas Icons

Vu Nguyes prepares 10 beautiful Christmas icons for you to decorate your web according to the Christmas spirit.

Smashing Magazine: Christmas Icons and Christmas WordPress Themes

Smashing magazine has selected high quality Christmas icons, and Christmas WordPress themes to let you get into the true Christmas spirit, decorating your personal desktop and adding some Christmas flavour to your recent designs or weblogs.

2. Wallpapers

PixelResort: Xmas Holiday Wallpapers

You will find a few goodies of Xmas holiday wallpapers to decorate your desktop.

Smashing Magazine: Christmas Wallpapers

Some Xmas specials – for your desktop or current web-project.

Hongkiat: Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers For Your Desktop

HongKiat showcased some really Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers for you to decorate the desktop while counting down to Christmas.

Hongkiat: 30 Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers, Part II

Here’s another 30 Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers collected at our home.

A New Morning: Best Christmas Wallpapers 2008 Download

Some really nice Christmas wallpapers posted by A New Morning.

Crestock: 16 Stunning High Resolution Christmas Wallpapers

Take this opportunity to put your desktop in that festive mood with wallpapers courtesy of some of Crestock’s finest contributing photographers and designers.

3. WordPress Themes

Developer Fox: 15 Interesting Christmas Free WordPress Themes

Developer Fox thinks you might be interested in dressing up your blog with a new Christmas free wordpress themes.

SheepTech: 30 Christmas WordPress Themes

SheepTech has compiled 30 Christmas WordPress themes if you are a WordPress user and wants some holiday feel on your WordPress blog.

Pulse2: 42 Free Breathtaking Winter WordPress Themes

Here is a list of 42 of the best WordPress winter themes to get your blog ready for the winter.

4. Photoshop Brushes

1stWebDesigner: 48 Snow, Ice, Snowflake and Christmas Brushes

There are pine, ice, snowflake, snow and many different Christmas related brushes for every taste in this list.

Web Resouces Depot: Christmas Design Toolkit: Photoshop Brushes, Vector Images And Tutorials

This is a giant design pack which includes Photoshop Christmas brushes, Free Christmas vectors, and Christmas-related Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials.

Observin: 23 Wonderful Winter Photoshop Tutorials & Brushes

Observin has gathered these winter photoshop tutorials and brushes are the perfect way to spruce up your designs and get you in the holiday mood.

Design Bliss: 5 Sets of Free Christmas Photoshop Brushes (2008)

Here are some free Christmas Photoshop brushes Design Bliss found over the past year.

Toxel: 20 Free Christmas Photoshop Brush Sets

A collection of free Christmas Photoshop brush sets that you can use to design something special during the holidays.

Photoshop Roadmap: 25 Nice Christmas Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes

Photoshop Roadmap has compiled another nice selection of Christmas Photoshop tutorials and brushes. All the brushes featured on this article are free to use on personal, non-commercial, projects.

Gosublogger: 16 Photoshop Brush Set For Christmas

This sets include xmas tree brushes , xmas ornaments brushes, xmas decoration brushes and other sets.

5. Photoshop Tutorials

Toxel: 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

To help you prepare for this year’s Christmas celebration, Toxel presents this collection of free Christmas-themed Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

StayUpdate: 31 Free Christmas Photoshop tutorials

StayUpdate has gathered free Christmas Photoshop tutorial for designers to be able to have the best design skills for Christmas.

My Ink Blog: 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials

My Ink Blog helps get everyone in the Christmas spirit by sharing some awesome Christmas related tutorials.

Smashing Magazine: 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

You’ll learn how to design Christmas trees, snow globes, snowflakes, Christmas candles, Christmas balls and much more.

6. Fonts

Dafonts: Free Christmas Fonts

Dafonts provides over 70 free Christmas for download without paying a single penny.

Woork: 10 Free Christmas fonts

Take a look at this list with some of Woork’s favourite Christmas fonts which you can download and use on your design projects.

Font River: 20 Superb Christmas Fonts and Dingbats

Font River gathered a wide variety of funny fonts and dingbats to pep up your designs. Make your own matching Christmas cards, invitations, favors bags, place cards, napkin rings, and much more!

Simple Thoughts: 20 Attractive Free Fonts for you This Christmas

Simple Thoughts prepared 20 fonts for you this Christmas which are absolutely free.

7. Misc

PSDTOP: 45+ Beautiful Christmas Cards

You’ll find in PSDTOP’s post 45+ Beautiful Christmas Cards which you can use for inspiration.

PSDTOP: 36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks – Winter Inspiration

PSDTOP brings you 36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks – Winter Inspiration hand-picked from deviantart.

PSDTOP: 70 Impressive Painting Artworks – Winter Inspiration

PSDTOP has hand-picked an incredible amount of amazing painting artworks from deviantart to inspire any artist.

Life Rock 2.0: Window XP Themes: Top 7 Christmas Themes

Life Rock 2.0 has compiled a list of top Christmas themes with Wallpapers for Windows XP and Vista to decorate your desktop.

CrazyLeaf Design: Free Christmas Vectors

CrazyLeaf Design thought some free Christmas vectorial resources will be welcomed for the coming holidays.

PSDFan: 20 Superb Christmas Designs

PSDFan has rounded up 20 of my favorite christmas themed designs. Hopefully these will help inspire you in your own works:

Pixel Perfect Digital: Free Christmas Stock Photos

Over 50 high resolutions photos which related to Christmas available for free download.

Garcya: 2000+ Christmas Goodies – PNG, Vectors, Icons, Wallpapers, Cliparts and PSD files

Garcya has prepared a mega list of free Christmas goodies just for you to have a stack of Christmas resources .

Lifehacker: Holiday-Themed Desktop Roundup

Lifehacker highlighting the holiday-inspired goods of readers have created.

Once in a while, you may want to try a different approach in design. If the concept/idea is green or nature related, wood elements can fit in pretty nice and they are fundamentally suitable. In this article, we attempt to showcase you 28 High Resolution Wood Textures designers can take full advantage of. Unable to create realistic wood texture from scratch in Photoshop is no longer an obstacle.

Note: Some of these textures have limited rights. That means they are not allowed for commercial usage. We urge that you check the rights before using them for business purposes.

 

• Bg Texture Wood
  by nortago
• Dark Wood Texture Pack
  by cloaksAll textures are 1024*768 pixels.

  

• Grey Wood
  by Loona-Loup
• 45 Wood Textures
  by JammurchAll jpeg images, 1280×960 resolution, 7.0MB.

  

• Wood 01 Patterns
  by silverHere a great set of 9 different untreated wood patterns. Includes Mahony, Cycamore, Rosewood, Maple, Cedar and more!

  

• Wood Textures
  by QBit71
• Wood Texture
  by SilensTemplum
• Wood Uncut
  by borysses10 seamless textures of uncut wood.

  

• Wood Textures
  by nureen-REStockA collection of wood textures for you to use. Assorted pack of 2 very large files.

  

• Wood texture
  by shadowh3Wood texture with overly large nails in the bottom.

  

• Wood Texture
  by pabloalvin
• Wood Texture
  by DayDreamsPhotographyHigh resolution wood texture in resolution of 2832×2128.

  

• Wood Texture
  by xNickixstockx
• Wood Texture 2
  by elenulin
• Wood Floors
  by gnrbishop
• Wood CSS Pack
  by Bobbyperux
• Wood
  by valkiria-stock
• Wood
  by Breyer Stock
• Wood & Rays
  by ycResolution 2816 x 2112, JPG format.

  

• Valle old wood texture
  by enframed3456×2334 resolution valle old wood texture.

  

• Tileable Wood Texture
  by ftIsis-Stock
• Old wood texture pack
  by prigix3 wood textures set. All in 1800×2400.

  

• Wood Breaker
  by Beyond-Oddities
• Three by One
  by Beyond-Oddities
• Dark Wood
  by zygat3rComes in resolution of 2560×1600, 1920×1200, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1152×864, 1920×1200

  

• Wood Floor
  by gnrbishop
• Wood Texture Wallpaper
  by sebgonz

In another week or two, 1.3 billion from China and 40 million Chinese around the globe will be celebrating Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year), the year of Ox. For designers who are working on designs and promotional campaigns for this festive season, we figured you could use more resources. Here’s 20+ Images, Brushes, Wallpapers and Fonts to Design for Chinese New Year.

Images and Cliparts

Lunar new year elements. from Veeqi.com

Happy 2009
via ikingyo
3 cute ox icon images available in .PNG format.

 

Ox
via k-hots

Happy Ox Year
via inObrAS

Chinese New Year clipart

More

• Lunar new year results from Baidu
• Artworks from IECool

Wallpapers

2009 Year of the Ox

Year of OX
via theletterA

Year of the Ox 2009
via duosun00

Sacred ox
via ShantiShantiShanti

More wallpapers:

• Chinese new year wallpaper from 6to23

Fonts

Sinosplice chinese fonts
13 free chinese fonts, in TTF format.

Free Chinese Fonts

More:

• 6 Chinese fonts by cice0129

Brushes

Chinese Ink
via arpad
This brush set was made with real Chinese ink. Good res.

Dragons volume II
via AmarieVeanne-Stock
39 Photoshop dragon brushes.

Chinese Zodiac Brush Set
via Cheshire-Angel
13 different Photoshop brushes.

Chinese Dragon
via TD-Brushes

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, heres 38 Free Elegant XHTML CSS Website Templates, and I have previously showcased 60 High Quality Free Web Templates, that makes it close to 100 piece of nice templates in the archive.

 

1. Book Store
   2-column template with clean wooden book shelf as header
   Demo | Download

   

2. Symisun 01
   Demo | Download

   

3. Strockes
   Strockes comes in package of .PSD, HTML, CSS and fonts. Registration is required.
   Download

   

4. Home
   Demo | Download

   

5. Warped
   Demo | Download

   

6. Aqueous
   Liquid 3-column layout. Also available in 2-column.
   Demo | Download

   

7. Typography Paramount
   Demo | Download

   

8. Real Estate
   Complete solution for a real estate company. Includes also admin templates.
   Demo | Download

   

9. Purple
   Demo | Download

   

10. Package
    Registration is required.
    Download

    

11. Redfire 2
    Nice black and red template
    Demo | Download

    

12. Mint Idea
    Demo | Download

    

13. The Spring
    Same style with more different colors – 1, 2, and 3.
    Demo | Download

    

14. Nature Theme
    Demo | Download

    

15. Musical Instrument
    Demo | Download

    

16. Extreme Updates
    Demo | Download

    

17. Trial Impact
    Demo | Download

    

18. Corporate Profiles
    Demo | Download

    

19. Blue
    Demo | Download

    

20. Impress
    Demo | Download

    

21. Darkside
    Demo | Download

    

22. Deep Blue
    Demo | Download

    

23. EC Mania
    Registration is required.
    Download

    

24. Dally Studio
    Demo | Download

    

25. Ideea Hosting
    Demo | Download

    

26. Prom Night
    Demo | Download

    

27. My Personal Page
    Demo | Download

    

28. Medical Clinic
    Demo | Download

    

29. Free Software
    Demo | Download

    

30. The Radio Station
    Demo | Download

    

31. Mirax Development
    Demo | Download

    

32. Photographer Folio
    Demo | Download

    

33. Cleo Studio
    Demo | Download

    

34. Happy Template
    Demo | Download

    

35. Internet Encyclopedia
    Demo | Download

    

36. Gentle Wiki
    Demo | Download

    

37. GrungeEra 1.0
    A fixed width, single column website template designed for small sites and personal blogs. It features a stylish grungy theme design and uses a warm colour scheme.
    Demo | Download

    

38. News Flash
    Demo | Download

    

Art and design magazines are designers close companion. Not only it feeds us with latest trends and news in the design industry, its also a good source of inspiration, particularly useful for those who hit the design block frequently.

Just in case you werent aware, theres a huge pool of free design magazines on the net; we meant those softcopy magazines you can either browse online or download for offline viewing. Not only they have high quality content, each issue released is also free. We thought thats generous of these folks. Today we want to present you with N Free Magazines for Designers. Even if you are looking for something to kill the spare time, we think these mags will help too.

Our Top Picks

GizMag

Weekly web magazine full of neat stuff. Every 3 months a free PDF is published with some of the past subjects, including interviews and artwork.

A List Apart

It’s not really a ‘magazine’ since it dont come in .PDF or any downloable format. But it’s certainly a must-read for any web designers.

Bak Magazine

 

Artzmania

Veer Catalog

PDF Mags

Nothing but lots of PDF magazines, for free.

Destructed Magazine

Art- and Designmagzine in .PDF format released quaterly with each issue deals with a unique topic.

Magwerk

Love Pics

Komma

Delve Magazine

Delve was created to explore visual culture through experimentation in design, photography, illustration, and other related visual arts.

Kino Mag

CRU A Magazine

CRU A is a digital magazine about arts and culture.

Root Magazine

More Free Magazines

RevolutionArt Magazine

REVOLUTIONART international magazine is a publication delivered in pdf format as a collective sample of the best of the graphics arts, modeling, music, and world tendences. Deliver every 2 months.

Castle Magazine

Castlemagazine is a pdf online mag which consists of the work of free Illustrators, Artists or other creative nerds.

ANTI

NTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world.

Blanket Magazine

Free PDF art + design + photography magazine that is released bi-monthly.

bitFUUL Magazine

Breed Magazine

BREED Magazine covers art, fashion, music and ideas quarterly for free subscription.

Bloodwars Magazine

Wag

True Eye

Royal Magazine

Private journal of The KDU (Keystone Design Union), a Global Fraternal Creative Collective dedicated to creating and managing innovative design centric objects, brands and experiences.

Ruby Mag

Sphere Magazine

Phase Collective

NLF Magazine

Noname Magazine

Multilink Magazine

Kromag

TXTnein

Free pdf magazine made with submissions of graphic designers, photographers and artists over the world

Etel Magazine

We thought this is a good magazine, but too bad the English version is currently not available.

Proteus Mag

Online art and design magazine.

{ths} Beast Magazine

The bible of inspiration.

Bedifferent

CODE Magazine

Daheim Magazine

Design And Life

The minizine gathers information including design, lifestyle, fashion, trend and creative news from all over the world.

File Magazine

Publish images that treat subjects in unexpected ways.

Made in Street

2ndDesign Magazine