The Most Incredibly Outstanding Site Templates
From January 1-31, ThemeForest hosted a fierce site template competition. Our authors competed against one another to win $300 – as well as some helpful promotion.
After much thought and deliberation, the winners were selected early in February! Trust me when I say that this wasn’t an easy task – by any means! So without further ado, here are the best ten site templates from our “$3000 New Year Competition”, in no particular order. I hope more of you will consider entering our upcoming ThemeForest competitions. Be sure to check the site regularly, as we host a new one each month!
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Live Performance Premium Template
“We built the Live Performance Template based on the 960 Grid System (http://www.960.gs) to suit those in need of a website template for their band, group, comedy tour, venue, or anything requiring a schedule, really.”
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Great Portfolio
“Great Portfolio is a one page portfolio and a very clean template. It has 2 color options to choose from namely, dark blue, and dark brown. It also has a smooth scroller to each menu of the page. Contact Form is functional and ready to use.”
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Portfolium
“Portfolium is aimed at creative professionals including but not only : graphic and web designers, photographers, developers and artists of any kind. It puts accent on your work and features a nice jquery slider on the homepage.”
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Coffee
“This theme is a fixed layout based on 960px grid. It uses no tables for layout. The main page has three columns whereas sub pages have the left-most columns merged.”
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Business Portfolio 960
“I built this Business Portfolio template based on the 960 Grid System. It’s one of the few templates on ThemeForest that are based on this system and it’s just one of the many things that makes it unique.”
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Ultimate Animated Portfolio
“This is a complete, fully featured, animated portfolio template that includes two skins, a dark one (black/blue/orange) and a bright one (white, gray, blue).”
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Core 3
“The Core 3 template is very simple, clean and effective. It is incredibly easy to modify and can easily be used for business or personal. Theme coding is very well commented and easy to read.”
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Business | Portfolio + Blog
“A stylish design ideal for a web dev company or a business. The design can be modified to work with other types of websites, such as a blog. And you don’t need to worry about fonts! This design uses only one font, I bet you’ve heard about Lucida. I’m draw this illustration (apples).”
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Silver Spoon
“This is a modern template which uses a lot of jQuery and CSS to create great user experience.”
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Nothern Lights
“An amazing colorful and very functional site template that can be used for general business or a sweet portfolio.”
And there you have it! We considered many factors when making our choices.
- Practicality: How “real world” is it?
- Uniqueness: Does this template stand out among the others?
- Sales: How many sales has this template made, per day?
- Construction: Does the template validate and follow best practices?
- Options: Did the author supply different CSS “themes” for each template? Has extra value been added?
Please join me in once again congratulating the winning authors. Stay tuned for more upcoming ThemeForest competitions!
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Good selection
yea, some cool design!
Definitely quality designs! Nice enough to share it with us all.
Nice ones. Designs are cool but they are less in number, so hope to see more of them
very nice themes there
My favorite is business template 960. Love the sliders. Thinking about a new photography website that I need to make. That template would save me hours….
Thanks, glad you like it! (it’s mine) :)
I already tried all of them at ThemeForest.net and they are so good. :)
Some very good designs there
Awesome designs. Definitely worth winning a competition like this.
Can’t say I’m a fan of any of these. They’re all far from unique, that’s for sure.
And why the hell is the last one titled “nOthern lights”?!?
Can’t wait to do quality stuff like this, thank you for sharing.
So! Great Templates. All Have a good design!
Wow, true excellence.
Great Portfolio looks like it came from William Smith’s portfolio. Looks the same except a few tweaks.
http://www.authenticstyle.co.uk/
Excellent templates, indeed!
I’m guessing that all the nominating people are male… why? A strong preference for darker colors. Just a guess. :)
I only like the second one. It is simple and it has style.
nice list
A lot of 960 love out there. Nice post!
They’re all nice but so… similar. Bums me out.
Great Portfolio seems nice
Yep. They’re templates ;)
Off topic, but I’m getting really tired of words like “incredible”, “outstanding”, “fabulous”, “mind-blowing”, “insane”… you get the point. It makes me feel, “like”, 13 again. Does anyone else feel the same?
very nice templates. i think coffee is my favourite does anyone know if they are free or do i have to pay?
Hi..
Definitely good designs, thanks for sharing with us.Very eager to see the new list.
Thanks..
Anna
Hmm.. Some of them are really nice, but not all.
Meh.
Eh, some of them seem nice, but they aren’t really appealing.
$15 max for a theme??
Envato rips people off with ThemeForest
Great designs.
I like “Core.” The others didn’t do much for me.
Some good ones for sure. Feeling the Business 960.
Awesome collection!
It’s really cool collection!
Some are pretty nice. Sure they are helpful to some people.
But I wonder why a web designer would purchase a template to demonstrate their OWN abilities in web design? Does that make sense to anyone? Because it sure doesn’t to me.
I know the template could be used for other types of portfolios, but it definitely seems to be focused on web designers.
Some nice templates, I like the Silver spoon and Northern Lights the best I think
Nice themes :)
Cool dude!!
Nice Collection
I like the Coffee template. Thanks for sharing these.
hımm!.. Nice Collection
I love all the Envato sites and all the great content – I think that post title just crossed a line though. Anyone else feel a backlash against over sensationalism?
Nice collection. I like the Business Portfolio 960. Thanks for sharing