Free CSS Layouts And Templates

As a web-developer you don’t have to re-invent the wheel all the time. If it just has to work, and has to be valid, and has to have a nice, visually appealing design hierarchy, you just can use css-techniques developed in the web-dev-community over the last few years. If you take a look around, you’ll find many templates, which include basic (X)HTML/CSS-markup.

You can start from there, learning and exploring the possibilities of CSS and modifying templates for your exquisite taste. Below you’ll find a list of resources which offer free, gorgeous and valid CSS-based templates - usually with images and full layout structure, such as headers, navigation bars, content containers, sidebars and footers.

Usually developers require a link to the site where the template was downloaded from. So before using these templates it might be useful to take a look at the license agreement the developer provides. Links checked: June/19 2008.
(X)HTML- and CSS-Templates

* Open Source Templates
15 impressive templates
* OSWD
Hundreds of templates and layouts of all possible kinds.
* OSWT
A huge collections with search- and sort-functions. With annoying advertisement.
* Maxdesign
23 layouts and design solutions
* CSSplay
Stu Nicolls presents dozens of free professional layouts. Sometimes a permission to use layouts is required.

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* Changingman
Beautiful liquid 3-col-layout.
* Mollio
Seven variations of one template, incl. style guides as .pdf-files.
* Six Shooter Media
15 Templates
* Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
A complex solution for many problems you might ever have: grid design is a principle well-known from image editors and layout tools.
* CSS Design Templates
12 Templates
* ThreeColumnLayouts, by CSS Discuss
Collection of 3-column-templates, gathered from a dozen of sources on the Web.
* CSS Intensivstation
15 Layouts

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* CSSFILL
Small collection for personal web-sites
* CSS Frames Layouts
Frames are also possible with CSS

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* Ex-Designz
98 (X)HTML-based CSS-templates
* Code-Sucks
6 templates and various layouts with 2-4 columns.
* Jimmy Lin
8 simple templates
* Layout Gala
40 professional Layouts for fresh and serious online-presentations.
* Little Boxes
16 Layouts, classic.
* Solucija
19 Templates