5 sites to promote your open source design
If you design open source templates, of course you want them to be downloaded and used by other people. You can just upload them to your own site but in most cases they won’t be downloaded a lot of times. Probably the site is not so popular. There are some exclusions like Andreas Viklund’s site but not a lot of them.
One more way is to upload your template to special sites for such things. Let’s see what sites are that.
- Open Web Design. The site has a very good community which always ready to give some comments in the forum. If you upload your template there it won’t be showed on the site immediately. Standing in the queue usually takes about 3-4 weeks. That’s because they give templates a chance to be on the main page for some time. So be patient and wait. OWD can generate a lot of traffic and downloads if the template is good. There is also an images size restriction. They shouldn’t be more than 25kb in sum. (p.s. Looks like that changed a tradition with a long waiting at the queue at the last week. Probably that’s just for once but who knows…)
- Free Layouts.com. This site doesn’t have such community like OWD, but it usually generates much more downloads and site visits. The queue usually takes 2-5 days. In contrast to OWD it hasn’t any size limits.
- Free Web Templates.Do you like when a site have a lot of advertisements? If you hate that than you shouldn’t upload your templates there. That’s because you’ll see a lot of advertisements at its main page. If advertisements is okay for you than you can get some downloads from there. An amount of them probably would be somewhere between OWD and Free Layouts. This service doesn’t have any restrictions and templates stay in the queue for about a week.
- Zeroweb.org. Advertisements, quite stupid UI and even less downloads than OWD don’t make this site very good. At the same moment, promotion is promotion so if you need it, you’d upload your templates even there.
- Open Source Web Design. I think it was one of the first such services and very popular some time ago. At the moment it doesn’t takes new templates but probably will do that again. I heard that OWD was made by one of OSWD admins.
I think there are some others such sites. For example - 4LAYOUTS.COM. The site is very strange. Looks like you can’t upload templates there by yourself and it takes them from Free Web Templates by itself. That of course generates some trafic but not a lot of it. You also can upload screenshots of your templates to special section of deviantArt. But my experiments show me that that won’t give you a lot of traffic.
If somebody knows some more such services or promoting ways I will really glad to hear them from you. They also would be added to the article with proper credits.
Thanks for the links, already bookmarked them
You’re welcome! =)
I was just about to write about open source and now you have. I spent 2 days looking for an open source css web site and finally found one.
Template is here http://www.ozwebhub.com/csstemplate.html
Look familiar?
What exaclty should look familiar? =)
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Why the site will look familiar is if you have ever visited glish.com It is his template but he says anyone can use his codes. He even has a box down the bottom with the code in it. I have changed the css a little.
I do acknowledge him in http://www.ozwebhub.com/whatsnew.html
Ah. You mean that idea of open source templates is familliar?
You can download a lot of templates from sites which I linked in this post and use them as you like. They all are free to use.
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For those who design themes for WordPress (open source blogging/CMS software) a great site to feature your work is http://themes.wordpress.net - They host everything and have ratings and total download counts. A must-do for any WP theme designer…
Yep. I know about it but thanks anyway.
The site is really great for themes distribution.
Nice list, thanks! Our list is up if you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d like to look?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ have a great day!
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MamaDuck: Thanks. You too =)
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Hi Mike,
I really like your web design work - it’s great. I also like your approach to coding that is very important also when it comes to search engine optimisation
Keep up the good work, I bookmarked you
Cheers,
Sante
Hi! Thanks a lot. I’m happy that you liked my templates.
Cheers!
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