Get Free Web Designs

WebDevNews is happy to announce the official launch of it’s new sister site, Get Free Web Designs. Get Free Web Designs, is the result of collaboration between the people behind Xavisys and Blogging Rock Star and offers high-quality open source templates completely free! You can find open source templates in a number of great designs, and use them to create professional web sites that stand alone or integrate with popular CMS platforms.

Get Free Web Designs, or GFWD, currently has 167 open source templates for free download available on the site, and they are all valid XHTML! The designs can be viewed by author as well as being searchable by validation (XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.1), license (Public Domain, GNU GPL, Creative Commons), contrast, width (fixed or fluid), number of columns, and color. If you would like to get regular information on updates and the addition of new themes to the site, subscribe to the RSS feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GFWD-Design-Feed.

GFWD is open to designers who would like to list their themes and templates on the site for hosting and download. It’s excellent exposure for new designers and it’s a great way for seasoned designers to give back to the community. If you would like to register to submit designs, visit the Get Free Web Designs Registration Page now to get started!

Thanks go out to Wolfram Fiedler for the amazing design which helps to truly showcase each of the designs submitted to the site. Also, Sean of Blogging Rockstar for the site layout, search engine optimization, and user interfaces, all of which I’m sure you’ll appreciate whether you are contributing designs, looking for designs, or both! Lastly, Aaron with Xavisys Web Development for the back end coding which allows the site to be responsive and reliable, allows the searching to be robust and intuitive, and also makes things like the statistics page possible.

We want Get Free Web Designs to be an amazing resource for you, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, please contact us. Also, stay tuned and watch the Get Free Web Designs blog! We’ll keep you updated as new features and functionality are added to the site.

Please feel free to check out the free XHTML and CSS designs on Get Free Web Designs. If you’re overwhelmed or aren’t sure where to start, hopefully some of these will help (pulled from the current statistics):

Top Web Template Contributors

1. graystatic contributed 30 designs
2. wfiedler contributed 22 designs
3. NickyD contributed 19 designs
4. Outsider contributed 14 designs
5. coollew contributed 13 designs
6. Karen Blundell contributed 9 designs
7. Gigacore contributed 8 designs
8. conartistdesign contributed 8 designs
9. Pat Heard contributed 7 designs
10. Payal Dhar contributed 7 designs

Most Downloaded Designs

1. wfiedler_21 by wfiedler (42 downloads)
2. Wild City by Outsider (38 downloads)
3. Leaves by NickyD (35 downloads)
4. lazydays by Pat Heard (30 downloads)
5. Orangealicous by graystatic (28 downloads)
6. Falling Away by Pat Heard (27 downloads)
7. Metamorph Floral by metamorph (26 downloads)
8. Simple Life by Pat Heard (24 downloads)
9. wfiedler_12 by wfiedler (22 downloads)
10. Chocolatey brown by kalyan (22 downloads)

Most Downloads Per Day (Average)

1. Nature by NickyD (15 downloads per day)
2. Mustard Green by kalyan (9 downloads per day)
3. Simply Plain v2 by kalyan (7 downloads per day)
4. Simply Plain v1 by kalyan (5 downloads per day)
5. wfiedler_22 by wfiedler (5 downloads per day)
6. metamorph eagle by metamorph (5 downloads per day)
7. dip! by Outsider (4 downloads per day)
8. metamorph darkside by metamorph (4 downloads per day)
9. Simply Black v1 by kalyan (4 downloads per day)
10. Chocolatey brown by kalyan (4 downloads per day)

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