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Industry, an Industrial Strength Template

admin — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:50:02 +0000

Great template out-of-the-box for manufacturing, factory or industrial related websites or blogs. However, you might encounter some problem when trying to modify the horizontal transparent navigation bar. It looks nice though, if you made it to work.

Come view this template with some related niche. You might get some ideas for you own project yourselves.

Small Studio, Big Template

admin — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:26:19 +0000

A nice and clean looking fixed width 3-column template. Great for interior design, decorator, home furnishing or furniture related sites. It includes a search box at the top right-hand corner.

Click here to see the Small Studio template in action with some live niche content. You can also see some Adsense placements ideas.

City in Paint: No Complaint

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:14:21 +0000

The header background is the city of Seattle. The designer describe it as a design:

“with stretching horizontal border. Also incorporates a great javascript free thumbnail enlarger”.

Although the image thumbnail that enlarges can break the flow in the right column, you can easily opt not to use that javascript function. This template is suitable for all kinds of blog, especially if you are an urban person. To see this template in action with some Adsense placement ideas, go to this preview here.

Adsense Placement Ideas
This template is more like a 4-column layout design. For better click through, you can try put Adsense on the first and 3rd columns. Leave the second and right-most column for your own content. Ads on the first column are usually the most visible while the ones on the third column will blend in well with the rest of the content.

Greenery, the Greenish Grassy Garden Template

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:36 +0000

According to the designer (fullahead.org),

this template is tableless XHTML/CSS that validates as 1.1 strict. It uses relative widths so that it handles browser font +/- without any troubles. The vertical plant image is easy to switch for one of your own, as is the accent colour.

Great for sites about gardens, trees, plants, or anything related to nature.

Click here to see this template in action, with some modification and ideas to include Adsense ads to blend in with the theme.

Lazydays, Lazy City Scape

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:14:57 +0000

The designer classify this design as a city themed XHTML Strict 1.0 template. It uses a fluid CSS layout with dark background. The header is a cityscape with some hot air balloons flying over the buildings.

Great for any personal blogs, events, special occasions and cheerful urban forums. Click here to see Lazy Days in action.

Go here to download this open source template: http://www.oswd.org/design/information/id/2839/

Cruiser, a Template for Classy Convertible Cars

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:07:18 +0000

This is another good looking CSS template by Dreamlogic. It uses a fixed background to keep the image at the bottom of the screen. Click here to see Cruiser template in action with some Adsense ads placed in different places.

Suggested usage:

sites or blogs about convertible cars
sites or blogs about muscle cars
anything about classic cars

Reflection, Reflecting City Live

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:20:47 +0000

Here is another cityscape template. It has a grayish background on a 2-columns layout.

Suitable websites may include financial sites, money, stock exchange, urban blog, business, management, marketing and construction industries. View the template in action with some Adsense built-in.

To be honest, this template is not the easiest to modify. I had trouble looking for a suitable color scheme to blend Adsense ads into this template. If anybody have a good color codes for Adsense to be used in this template, please share with us here.

TerraFirma, A Template for Any Blog

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:54:19 +0000

A nice looking 2-column web design template. I would proposed this template to be used as either personal blogs, nature related site, biological research or even .

This template was featured as one of the 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen.

The use of these hex colors – #46461F, #FFFFFF and #CCCCCC – for Adsense would make your ads blend in nicely with the layout. Check out our TerraFirma template in action.

Click here to see this template in action with Adsense.