Just Free Templates blog

Celebrating over half a million template downloads

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:10:18 +0000

Last week Just Free Templates served its 500,000th download and so we decided to celebrate that fact by highlighting the most downloaded templates in our database. With over 730 free css web templates and WordPress themes there’s lots of great designs… At the current time of writing we’ve served 513,723 template downloads since we started [...]

Summer themed web templates and WordPress themes

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:08:37 +0000

With the sun shining we thought it would be nice to highlight some of the summer themed designs on our website. With over 700 free web templates and WordPress themes on our site there are quite a number of fresh and sunny themes to choose from. Check out a few of our favourite summer themed [...]

5 WordPress plugins most blogs shouldn’t be without

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:52:05 +0000

With over 9,500 WordPress plugins available on the official database alone, it’s hard to know which ones are useful and which ones you could perhaps do without. We’ve complied a list of 5 WordPress plugins we think most blogs should’t be without. Be sure to check the compatibility of these plugins with your WordPress version [...]

Beginning with CSS sprites in your designs

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:37:32 +0000

CSS sprites provide a neat and easy way to reduce loading times on your page as well as adding rollover effects simply and easily without the use of javascript or worrying about pre-loading images. But what exactly are CSS sprites and how can you make use of them with CSS? Read on for our guide [...]

Creating a WordPress post calendar date icon

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Blog calendar date icons, which show the publication date next to each entry, provide a simple way to spice up your WordPress design. Using just a single image, a bit of CSS and some WordPress PHP this tutorial will show you how to implement something similar in your own themes. Plus we have some free [...]

Top free web template designs of 2009

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:00:18 +0000

In 2009 over 400 free templates were added to our website, while over 200,000 downloads were counted and close to 1 million views of the themes and designs on the site were logged. Going into the new year we highlight some of the top content of the past year based on views, downloads, ratings and [...]

Great sites for free and paid stock images

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:34:27 +0000

Images can help make a website that much better and fortunately you don’t need to be a professional photographer and graphics designer to get some great content. In this blog post we’ll be highlighting some brilliant websites that offer free and paid stock images for your work. Free All of these website’s provide images free [...]

7 ways to check cross browser compatibility

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:52:25 +0000

Today there is plenty of choice for internet users when it comes to browsers – the current most top 10 most widely used browsers includes multiple versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari together with both Chrome and Opera. While web standards continue to improve – even in IE! – all these browsers still have [...]

Indepth: CSS3 – All about borders

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:04:16 +0000

Following on from our previous article about the changes in background properties in CSS3, we’re now going to look at the changes and new features of borders in CSS3. Things to look forward to include the ability to easily create rounded corners and using images for borders. Plus – how to add drop shadows to [...]