aSimpleTemplate.com is now in your hands!

1. About aSimpleTemplate.com
2. Our success is in your hands
3. The road to your first design
4. Participation
5. Why participate?
6. Requirements
7. Usage of images?

About aSimpleTemplate.com

First of all, Welcome to my website! Here you will find lots of free css templates and other products.

My Css templates, and other products are ready-made designs, that can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality website. My free css templates, and all other products are completely customizable and ready for immediate download (read before usage). All of my CSS templates are:

• W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML transitional)
• Table-less (ie. Not a single table is used)
• Very leight weight (achieved through: sprite technique)

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Our success is in YOUR hands

I woke up this morning (2010/09/23) and decided to turn the roles that was being played. Since the start of this website, all products were created by me. TODAY, that is going to change!

Its time to ask for your help! I encourage you to contribute to the future success of open source web templates and to this website. By doing that, I am putting the responsibility of this website and its success in YOUR hands ;).

I wish to encourage everyone interested, to build and submit their own template, which will eventually be posted on this website for free download and usage. Please read the entire page for more details

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The road to your first design

We at aSimpleTemplate.com invite you to start producing your own designs using your utmost imagination and creativity. We also encourage you to send them to us and if your design passes our terms and impress us, it will be offered for free download and usage on our website with reference to your website or work. Learn to use the (yet to be) time-honored techniques in new and invigorating fashion. Become one of US.

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Participation

Graphic designers only. If you're creating a complicated design, strong CSS skills are necessary, so, don't create something that might work on one browser and won't on another.

Once you have completed your masterpiece (please, don't submit half-finished work) and wish to donate it to us. You'll have to Contact us via our site for us to provide you with the details on how to to send your product.

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Why participate?

Why participate? For recognition, inspiration, and a resource we can all use freely. This is sorely needed, even today, more and more people need a css template that is not only free and beautiful but one that also validates as well.

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Requirements?

We would like to see as many templates possible. Please avoid the use of hacks that might end up breaking your design in the future. aSimpleTemplate.com is about functional, practical CSS and not the latest bleeding-edge tricks. The only real requirement we have is that your CSS validates.

Unfortunately, designing this way highlights the flaws in the various implementations of CSS. Different browsers display differently, even completely valid CSS at times, and this becomes maddening when a fix for one leads to breakage in another. Full browser compliance is still required, but we do not expect you to come up with pixel-perfect code across every platform. But do test in as many as you can. Your design should at least run in IE7 and above, Firefox, opera and Chrome, the rest is important but we can go without them.

File names should not be changed. Html file should be named "index.htm" or "index.php" and placed in the root folder, the css file should be placed in a folder called "style" and the file should be named "default.css".

We ask that you submit original artwork. Please respect copyright laws. Please keep objectionable material to a minimum; tasteful nudity is acceptable, outright pornography will be rejected.

You retain full copyright on your graphics, but we ask you to release your CSS under a Creative Commons license so that others may learn from your work.

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Usage of images?

All images are allowed as long as you respect the copyright laws of others.

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