Where is the best place to find some good free psd web templates. everywhere I look has pretty much the same, boring, generic looking templates, anyone know of some cool, professional looking ones? Thanks
Best... PSD... Templates... Same sentence... Bwahahaaa. Oh man, that cracks me up. No such thing so far as I'm concerned, since starting from some goofy picture of a website usually just means shoe-horning content into a layout it wasn't meant for -- especially since most PSD jockeys wouldn't know emissive colourspace, accessible font sizes, semi-fluid layout or responsive layout from the hole in their Photoshop DVD. Markup your content semantically with zero concern for what your layouts (yes, PLURAL!) are going to look like, bend that semantic markup to your will using CSS to make your layouts, THEN you bring in the art chik-fil-a to make the graphics you hang on those layouts. Why plural? There's more to development than screen, much less that perfect magical screen size and default font-size the designer happens to have been dumb enough to design to; from 192px wide handheld to 2560x1440 IPS, a GOOD layout will adapt automatically to all of them instead of having some idiotic fixed width that's too big for netbooks/smaller and leaves people diving for the zoom... On top of screen resolutions there's all the old MEDIA types like PRINT, HANDHELD, and the people who block all the presentational crap for it wasting bandwidth -- which is why a well written page will have graceful degradation for CSS off, images off and scripting off. Much less PSD jockeys LOVE multiple equal height equal width elements in the middle of content flow, something that is NOT viable for web deployment if you give a flying purple fish about accessibility and reaching as many people as possible. You fix the height of anything other than the header/horizontal menus at the top, or the footer (required for min-height), 99.99% of the time you've made an inaccessible train wreck of a layout. Same goes for declaring everything in PX metric fonts. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but people do not visit websites for the goofy graphics and inaccessible fixed width layouts that inevitably go hand in hand with them -- they visit for the CONTENT, which is why that is where you should start! Starting from some goofy half-assed picture of a website drawn by an artist who when pressed goes "WCAG, what's that?" -- that's just the road to failure! It disgusts me to the point of nausea that said approach has become a industry norm -- but that just proves most people working professionally in the industry do little more than prey on the ignorance of others and most certainly do not to professional quality work.
Wow...deathshadow.......I am glad me asking was something that amused you today. I have never used a PSD template before. I don't know code, css or java script. I have built 4 of my own websites over the years and mostly did it myself, starting with the old splash web authoring program and moving to dreamweaver mx....which I still have and like. I have DW8 and CS5 but still use the ole trusty MX cause I am used to it. I only know how to layout my tables, grahics and insert my content like I want, ad streaming video or whatever. I just wanted to re-design and re-vamp a new ste to make it look fresh and professional and I didnt have time to do it, right this minute and thought that might be the way to go. You could have just explained that to me in a better manner then having to write a book to me about that, and I surely hope that the nausea you have developed over the course of me asking this question doesnt lead you to Puke on your keyboard..LOL Thanks for your babble, I appreciate it. So would a DW template be better? or just do it plain, boring and generic like everything else? I agree people dont visit for the graphics but for the content, BUT......think about it. If you need a lawyer and.,,.....on the left side of the street is a spraycan blown piece of plywood sign, and lawyer in ole dirty overalls, ....and on the right side of the street is a nice looking sign, and lawyer dressed in a suit --------Which one are you going to naturally go into?? BadaBoom "Here's your sign" Thanks Hollywood~