As you may have noticed Templates.com product range has suddenly been extended with lots of new Website Templates and Flash Templates. Where they come from is Template Monster that we have signed a reseller agreement with.

 

The reason for this cooperation is simple - that is what our audience had asked for. Our own collection of templates even though pretty big appeared to be not big enough for some of our visitors which is why we started negotiating with Template Monster in regards to reselling their templates at Templates.com

 

The result is obviously great - now there are really tons of templates for you to choose from. We are sure that now you will find the one particular template that will suit your requirements.

Someone celebrates holidays by years or days. We don’t deny that someday we will celebrate anniversaries and stuff. But now that we’re still young we celebrate events in our own way.

 

What we celebrate this time is the glorious figure of 1000 illustrations available in the Templates.com collection (you may see it yourself at the Illustrations product page). We have reached this record yesterday and that’s really something that inspires us for further achievements. Besides other product types are still under 1,000 and that means we still have a lot of stuff to keep working on.

 

 

Nevertheless 1,000 is a great accomplishment as these are not simple clipart images but the high-quality artworks made by professional illustrators and designers. Each of these illustrations would be a great accompaniment for any possible project starting with a post stamp and ending with the complex designs like print advertising campaigns and magazine designs. See it yourself - here is the record-holding Illustrations product page with all of our brilliant masterpieces.

Here’s one for you, my friends: why are obvious design requirements and being constantly declined and ignored on the Internet today? I mean if the modern design is about paying more and more attention to the visual aspect than this aspect should not be forgotten, right? And it’s not only a matter of fashion or being trendy, it’s more about the convenience and usability: the visitor today tends to spend less time on the website and therefore in order to deliver the message webmasters are to make this message more vivid. What happens in reality is that the designs for some reason stay old-fashioned and are overloaded with texts (that are in turn appear to be ignored in most cases). Don’t get me wrong – audience becomes no dumber and people do still read texts, but in order to stand more chances in turning the visitors into customers the designs HAVE to be optimized to be less time-consuming in delivering the message. Illustrate, my friends! That’s what will bring you fame and fortune.

 

Let’s take for example a web hosting sphere. Hosting providers were always considered to be the headliners in having their share of attention (which is easy to explain as they are the only tool of getting the precious space). “Wait a minute!”– you will say. “How can one possibly illustrate such an abstract concept as web hosting?” A good question as every good question it has to have a good answer Here it is: “DISPLAY HOSTING SERVERS AS AN ILLUSTRATION!”

 

Take a look at how it can be with the actual hosting websites examples (Server 3D Models from Templates.com have been used for this):

 

LunarPages.com

 

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Server 3d Model #1106 has been used here.

 

Velocity Servers

 

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Verio Servers

 

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There’s nothing revolutionary about it and that’s a tremendously simple design hint to be honest. Nevertheless for some reason only up to 30% (according to our own research) of all of the hosting providers apply it. Of course some of the big players can afford that as they already have their own loyal audience and their brand is powerful enough to attract new customers only by being presented at the top position of SERPs. But on the other had why not to diversify your means of influencing the visitor, after all this is a GUARANTEE of a greater conversion rate. Besides, it is a proved fact that if a person looks for a package or an offer where the word “server” appears he or she intuitively expects to see a nice shiny server that his data is going to be stored on. Another important thing is that text blocks are less comprehendible than the graphical illustrations and putting a server image is way much more striking than the text. Text is good for explanations and clarifying while images attract attention and impress. It’s a shame to ignore such an easy and effective tool.

 

To prove how great illustrations are if combined with an ordinary (or even extraordinary) text we will ourselves illustrate the things mentioned above. We have found several hosting providers websites that we think might want to consider some design improvements. These are all good companies by the way and they provide great quality services. PLEASE NOTE that we are not trying to offend any company’s reputation by this, we only generate suggestions and illustrate those suggestions. Besides this whole thing DOES NOT mean that they have a non-usable design, it’s only about diversifying their ways to attract even more customers.

 

Here’s another portion of striking examples. This time it’s not about actual hosting companies, just a couple of innocent designs that have had such a bad luck to get into our sight

 

INNOCENT EXAMPLE #1

 

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Server 3D Model #1331 has been used here

INNOCENT EXAMPLE #2

 

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Server 3d Model #933 has been used here.

 

INNOCENT EXAMPLE #3

 

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Server 3D Model #1239 has been used here

Quite impressive metamorphoses, huh? Once again, please remember that these are only our suggestions about how putting a simple image of a 3D server to where a visitor expects it to be can change the whole train of a visitor’s thought and urge him/her to take the mental steps that you need him/her to take.

 

Please feel free to express your thoughts and suggestions on this issue (no matter how critical they may be) in the comments to this post, we promise to answer every single question and take every single comment into consideration.

 

We also welcome your graphical variants of design suggestions for hosting providers’ websites. We will publish the best works as the updates to the post. Besides that we will reward the best redesign suggestions with discounts for the Templates.com products. Please be sure to use the Servers 3D Model images from Templates.com in your designs (okay if with the sample watermarks) and send the design screenshots to fred.murray[at]templates.com

Greetings, my friends, for today is the glorious day of Templates.com official blog launch! So be sure to remember this day in order to be able to tell your grandchildren of it or mention it in your memoirs

 

Anyways, here’s why you will love this new blog. The major thing about it is that it will be the only official news provider for the revolutionary project of Templates.com and from this blog you will constantly get new proofs for that revolutionary character. All of the news, updates, releases and reports will also be posted here. In other words this and only this place is the right one to get all of the info you might possibly imagine. Enjoy premium blogging with us!