There are several reasons for opening yet another of the nearly infinite list of template web sites. We’re attempting to address specific issues we’ve had in the past with regard to template web sites.

First of all, though there are numerous ports of themes from one CMS to the next, they’re not done on a consistent basis and ports of themes that one might very much want may not be available. With this site, a key focus will be in making themes available for as many CMS’s as possible, including even the standard HTML/CSS format which can easily be used as a basis for porting the themes to an unsupported CMS.

Second, it’s not quite so easy to find free CMS themes tailored to very specific needs, one being themes for church web sites. Most small churches will likely desire a simple, uncomplicated theme with little graphical flare to emphasize the content while larger churches may want a more corporate appeal to the site. Both of these types of themes will be offered here along with other themes tailored to perhaps more uncommon circumstances.

Many CMS themes require users to keep the link-backs to the author’s web sites intact in the theme. This is often very undesirable as it might possibly detract the visitor’s attention from the site’s material, especially where the link-backs are very noticeable. Another issue proceeding from this is that such link-backs might include information on which CMS is being used by the site, giving malicious visitors a starting point for finding a security hole. The free themes here require no such link-backs, but only require that the license.txt file included in the zip file is kept intact.

Something we consider to be a feature, though perhaps not seen as such by some, is that though our themes may not provide the robust feature sets and intensely complex layouts as some commercial themes, it is intentionally so. We prefer to provide themes that are somewhat less complex than some of the monstrous commercial  themes out there because we’d rather provide a starting point from which users could then build a site more befitting their needs. We also don’t want users to be required to have particular plugins installed for our themes to work. Some of our themes are in fact designed such as to be templates from which to build a robust theme.

Finally, with this site and accompanying forum, we’ll attempt to accommodate requests for themes from our visitors and users. The scope of this will, of course, be limited to some degree since we’re making such theme requests available across CMS’s, but we can guarantee we’ll try to provide the best themes we possibly can given our limitations.