Free Templates

Pixabella05 is a free 3 column HTML template, and comes with two layouts, the traditional sidebar-content-sidebar, and the popular content-sidebar-sidebar layout. This template is valid XHMTL transitional and is released under a Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license.

The images were all created using Inkscape, which is quickly becoming my favourite drawing program, and which seems like it will one day be a very successful free alternative to commercial drawing software. The original site layout was sliced within Inkscape and the HTML built around the exported images. Download Pixabella05 free HTML template.

I love this design, it's my first template design that has been created using Inkscape, and it won't be my last. The header and footer images in pixabella03 come from my love of African Violets.

What makes this template special is that I also drew a transparent tile that sits on the purple background so it looks like a watermark with almost invisible African Violet flowers. Download the zipfile for pixabella03 to use it on your website.

I'm very excited about this, I was checking through my website stats and I noticed a link from a site that I assumed was using one of my templates. Wow, how right I was, it seems 'TheSlayer' has ported my pixabella01 template to Etomite CMS.

To the best of my knowledge this is the first port of one of my free HTML templates to another CMS. Check it out at Slayers site, or read the official announcement in the Etomite forums.

Pixabella02 is my second free HTML template. The inspiration for this template came from watching the movie Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Since watching Chocolat I've finally tried chocolate with chili, OMG, chocolate just got better!

So, enough distraction, back to the template which is valid XHTML transitional, and includes two page types, a regular html page, and a blog template page. Modifying Pixabella02 for your needs shouldn't be too difficult, a simple text editor will do nicely. See my HTML tutorial for more info.

Download Pixabella02

Today marks the rebirth of pixabella.com with the release of my first free HTML Template. I originally released this as 'Ceejay01' for the Serendipity blog engine, and it proved an immediate hit with countless users, many of whom customised the design with their own images whilst staying true to the original design. The success of pixabella01 in the Serendipity world also encouraged me to release the template for Blogger and Thingamablog users.

This release, which is renamed pixabella01 is just the first of many HTML Templates that I plan to release, all of which will be free to download. Some design elements have been improved and the template is valid XHTML transitional. Two HTML pages are included within the zipfile, the first is ideally suited to a personal or small business website, whilst the second would normally be used for blog or news sites.

Over the next few days I hope to start writing some tutorials on basic HTML and Stylesheet editing for novice webmasters who want to know how to adapt any HTML template to their needs.

Finally, here's the link to the pixabella01 zipfile. Thanks for your support, and feel free to comment below if you use this template on your site.