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Old 07-31-2006, 09:48 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Free Templates?

I'm looking to start selling a product through my website but my design skills are very limited. So I was curious if there are any websites that offer free templates for less than a half a dozen products and shopping carts??

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Old 07-31-2006, 10:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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hey just go to yahoo/google and search for free templates. im sure you'll find some.
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Old 07-31-2006, 10:51 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Yah I have been lookin for the same thing on google/yahoo. I cant seem to find any free templates for online stores with shopping carts. Can anyone help us?
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Old 07-31-2006, 11:01 AM   #4 (permalink)
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are you looking for something like this: http://www.comersus.com/templates.html ?
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Old 07-31-2006, 11:09 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Try this site for templates

http://www.zymic.com/

Also, the osCommerce shopping cart has a couple of decent looking templates as it's default. It's free and easy to set up.
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Old 07-31-2006, 10:27 PM   #6 (permalink)
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http://yourbusinessforum.com- theres free templates there
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Old 08-01-2006, 05:58 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Like Bestmiller said search google/yahoo or go on www.oswd.org
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Old 08-01-2006, 09:16 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Forget cost and think about value. You can great "free" templates, but what's that going to cost in terms of lost business?

You can get relatively inexpensive templates at Template Monster:
http://www.templatemonster.com/

At least they don't *look* free.
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http://www.interspire.com/templates/

I've used some here and they seem pretty good. Also, they've got templates for other media as well (email newsletters, etc.)
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Old 08-01-2006, 11:49 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Some fairly good free templates can be found here

Also, I would check ebay, they have 11GB CDs with several templates on them for about $10.00 plus s/h
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Old 08-02-2006, 01:28 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Have any of you used the photoshop templates? At first glance, they seem pretty difficult to use. Photshop is a good program, but its difficult for me to find what I want in their menus. I've just looked at one of these last night and it seems that if the text of the web site is in an image, search engines won't be able to find your site unless you use the meta tags.

Are there any alternatives to manually changing the colors of the buttons in a template in paint or photshop? The colors of my logo are a little odd/unique and I'd have to do quite a bit of image editing to get everyting to match up. I was mainly wondering if this problem is just with the freebie templates and if the ones you pay for have some additional features to let you change the colors of the buttons in the template. I'd rather pay $50 for a good template that will let me change the button style so I can avoid 4 or 5 hours of busy work per style change :-D

Thansk for the help.
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Old 08-02-2006, 01:55 PM   #13 (permalink)