Open Source Web Design Templates and Tools

The open source is a great way to implement the newest ideas and latest concepts into design.

Wordpress Themes - excellent collection of Free WordPress Themes updated regularly.

Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates

• OSWD - is a collection of web designs submitted by the community that anyone can download free of charge. Currently has 2080 free designs.
• OpenWebDesign - is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place. It has 2425 designs total.
• CSS Tinderbox - is an effort to support open source web design by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates that web designers and web developers can use as the foundation for their own projects.
• Open Design Community -is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing hundreds of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download.

Web Design Templates

• Template Monster - is a high-quality set of web, flash, and blog templates, with over 5,000 website template designs.
• MasterTemplates - provides professionally designed free website layouts along with PowerPoint templates.
• Flash-template-Design - is one of the highest quality collection of flash templates and web design templates.
• TemplateNavigator - is the largest catalogue of free website and flash templates, along with quality preview shots.
• TemplateBox - offers over 300 freebie website, logo, banner, and flash templates to complement their collection.
• Free Website Templates - a large collection of templates that don’t require a reciprocal link.
• Free CSS Templates - is a strong resource which is frequently updated with new submissions. It is free but require a reciprocal link.
• Effex-Media -is a free website templates with a massive list is categorized by website type and includes user reviews of many of the templates.
• TemplateWorld -is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layouts designed by Template World designers.
• Steve’s Templates - offers a dozens of templates, free with link back.
• Templatespace - offers website templates, CSS templates, Flash templates, logo templates, photoshop web designs, newsletter templates and abstract images.
• Themebot Design Templates - makes it easy to find exactly the right theme, template, style or skin for your favorite content management system, blog or forum. There are also standard XHTML web design templates to download
• Layouts4Free.com - hosts over 3000 free templates, 2000 Web Graphics & 1500 Resources with more content added daily.
• Template Perfection - is run by webmasters all across the world. All content is reviewed before its added to the website by the staff.
• Sunnyflash - offers high quality and affordable pre-made flash templates that will add value to any web page.
• TemplateWorkz - offers 48 freebie web templates, along with some basic logo and newsletter templates.
• Free Layouts - hosts 500 templates.
• Free Flash Template - offers web templates and intros with tons of special features. You don’t need any flash knowledge, just open the text file included with every template and change your text.
• Free Templates Online - proposes dozens of easily customizable templates categorized by theme.
• Web Design Helper - offers full page templates including the graphics and code.
• FreekTemplates.com - offers free and professional website templates for successful web development.
• Zymic - 80 freebie templates (HTML Pages + CSS + Images + PSD Files + Blank Images Files).

Blog Themes and Templates

• Bloggingthemes - is a distributor of blog theme-templates. All of themes are provided free of charge.
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• Adsenseblogthemes -10 unique blog themes and start earning money with Google Adsense in just a few minutes!
• Scribez - New Ten Best Free Wordpress Templates.
• Blogger Templates - a collection of Blogger templates on a wide variety of themes.
• Blogfashions - allows to view, download any of the blog templates (including images) featured on this site.
• WP Themes - is a website for sharing the wordpress themes.

CSS Layouts

• Layout Gala - is a set of 40 layouts that we’ve thought worth sharing: on each of them you’ll find also a download link (if you want, you can download the entire collection, 40 HTML pages in a single zip file).
• Glish - is a collection of CSS Layout Techniques which have been stripped down to the bare essentials.
• IronMyers - is a collection of layouts with full Grade-A browser support for IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and more.
• Maxdesign - is a range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts - free to use and abuse as needed.
• FU2K - CSS layouts designed for Netscape 4 compatibility.
• CSS Library -is a list of tableless, CSS based page templates to quickly define the skeleton of your pages.
• CSS Template Directory - collects many css formatted page templates, developed and distributed by different designers.
• ssi-developer - contains two columns CSS template samples with recommendations.
• Mollio - is a set of html/css templates.
• The Layout Reservoir - simple, straightforward, and manipulable 2 and 3 column layouts.
• Ruthsarian Layouts - offeres to you royalty free, copyright free, and warranty free so that you might learn and enjoy working with CSS-based layouts.
• IntensiveStation - is a collection of all new basic CSS templates.

Open Source Web Design Programs

• Nvu - makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
• Bluefish - is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners that supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
• Cssed - is a small developer editor and validator, that tries to ease the CSS editing. It has some support for HTML (with embbeded Javascript), XML, Javascript, Java, PHP, JSP, C, C++, Apache configuration files, .htaccess, Python, Perl, SQL, SH and other languages.
• GIMPShop - is a free Open Source image editor that is similar to the popular Adobe Photoshop.

Automated CSS Tools and Generators

• CSS Creator - easy to use CSS layout generator with options for fluid or fixed width floated column layout.
• Strange Banana - is a generator that automatically creates graphic webpage designs
• Maketemplate - creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer. This PHP / CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs full featured tableless code i.e. tables are NOT used for the template with the column layout.
• IBDjohn - yields a three column layout without using any Tables. This HTML & CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs a full featured 3 column template.
• Wordpress Theme Generator - creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

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