Original link: template0.com
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Site Introduction
template0.com is a directory website aimed at collecting high-quality free templates available on the Internet, including landing pages, blogs, portfolios, ecommerce, and admin dashboards, among others.
Why is it called template0? It has two meanings:
- I firmly believe that success begins with a template, not from scratch. The "template" comes before "0", representing this meaning.
- You can also consider 0 as $0, meaning all the templates here are free of charge.
Why create such a website? To put it simply, there are three purposes:
- High-quality free templates are often forgotten in some corner. This is a showcase site for free templates.
- When searching keywords on Google, free templates are often overshadowed by paid template results.
- Because the templates are free, many creators don't invest much effort in promotion, making it difficult for quality templates to gain visibility.
- Many free templates created by people do not have a specific place for display. Template0 is such a directory website that showcases creators' works and provides a platform for explorers to discover them.
- Desired free templates are hard to find.
- Many templates lack detailed information on purpose, tech stack, or preview images, making it difficult for those seeking templates to find what they need.
- Many free templates require registration to download. These have been filtered out.
- All templates go through a basic screening to ensure good appearance and include a live demo.
- Aesthetic sense stems from exploration.
- This is another reason for creating this site: to encourage exploration and experiencing others' websites, thus enhancing one's aesthetic sense.
- All website content is manually collected or user-submitted, rather than being scraped in large quantities by web crawlers.
- I will continually keep an eye on industry trends, collecting high-quality free templates as I encounter them. The site's content is continuously updated.
Preview and Feature Overview
Homepage
The homepage includes a hero section, quick search access, sponsor section, latest releases section, featured section, blog post section, email subscription section, and footer.
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Category Filter Page
Here, more filtering options are provided to help everyone quickly find their desired free templates, such as by purpose, tech stack, whether it's featured, preview images, release date, and alphabetical order of names.
There is also a sponsor carousel module at the top, and at the bottom, there are email subscription and footer modules similar to those on the homepage.
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Collection Page
To support everyone in exploring and discovering others' free templates from different dimensions, Template0 offers curated collections.
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Blog Page
In addition, to continuously produce content and increase search engine exposure, Template0 also includes a Blog page. Of course, there is currently limited blog content, but more will be gradually added in the future.
Price Page
First, let me state that all the content on this website is free, whether it's templates or submitting your own free templates. The website is maintained solely through sponsorship:
- To avoid excessive disturbance to users, there are only eight sponsorship slots.
- Sponsors are ranked by the amount of sponsorship (up to $99), and then by the earliest sponsorship time. The top 8 are displayed.
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Submit Page
Here, you can submit your free templates for free to gain exposure and traffic. Last month, the site's traffic was 4k UV and 14k PV, and it is continuously growing!
template0.com is just a directory site and will not host any preview content or source code. Links will lead to your own website, providing traffic and SEO benefits to you.
template0.com only accepts templates that are free to use, come with a live demo, and have a good appearance. If you have free templates in template0.com, you can copy the badge below and place it anywhere in your template demo or repository.
<a href="https://template0.com/item/XXX" target="_blank">
<img src="https://img.template0.com/template-$0-created-for-fun-v1.svg" alt="Template $0 - Created for Fun" style="height: 50px" />
</a>
About featured template Featured template has no commercial content and is purely based on personal preference of the site owner, with a focus on the following points:
- Whether the template code is well-structured, well-documented, and easy to modify.
- Whether the appearance is clean, modern, and sleek.
- Whether the overall appearance of the template is a relatively unique design, such as a terminal style.
Generally, meeting any of these criteria will lead to being featured.
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After submission, it will undergo a review process, which I usually complete and publish within three days. This is to prevent non-free content and other inappropriate content from appearing on the site, as we have previously received NSFW submissions.
Meanwhile, you can view and manage your submitted projects on the Dashboard page.
Favorites
You can freely explore your favorite templates here, click to save them on the details page, and find your private collection list on the Dashboard page, making it easy to quickly locate them for future use!
Conclusion
Welcome everyone to explore the free templates you desire here, or if you're just curious about what websites others have created, this is also a great place to check out~
You're also welcome to submit your own free templates to the site, and submissions are free of charge!
If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me through any means (contact information is available in the footer of the site).
Top comments (8)
UX is kinda terrible. It looks like a directory of sponsored links
Hi, Zizaco~ Can you specifically say what is bad about the UX? We are currently iterating quickly!
As for sponsorship, this is a necessary condition for the long-term maintenance of this website, so I hope to gain some understanding
Hey Justin, thank you for asking. Here's my feedback:
1) The landing page
/
is unnecessary and adds friction. I struggled for a while to locate the template list. I suggest you remove this page altogether (see #2). You can reallocate the hero text to the footer.2) The
/category
page (which is the list of all templates) should be the homepage.Also, calling it "Category" is illogical. It would be better referred to as "Browse All" or a similar title. (BTW, I almost gave up trying to find this page.)
This should be the core and the most important part of the website.
3) A prominent "primary" button for "Visit website" would greatly improve user experience compared to the
/item/<slug>
page. The entire Details page is just annoying. It could simply be a tooltip that appears on hover. All the options on the Details page, such as "Add to Favorites" and "More like this," could be incorporated into a thumbnail or hover tooltip instead. (Although the page can still exist if you deem it important for SEO)4) The
/collections
page is currently empty and doesn’t make sense as it stands. This was the first link I clicked while searching for the list of all templates, and my initial conclusion was, "This website is empty!".If collections are not implemented yet, consider implementing some automated grouping based on tags and categories to provide at least some content. Alternatively, you might remove it altogether now.
However, when I click on a collection, it would be better to redirect me to the filtered listings (aka:
/category
) rather than displaying an empty and worst pagination experience (/collection/<slug>
)5) The list of sponsors should be on the bottom (perhaps the last row of each page?). It would be ideal if it doesn't show every single time.
6) Naturally, monetizing this seems logical. However, consider how it might conflict with user experience and potential growth. I suggest you push sponsors more succinctly.
I’m not sure how you’re hosting this site, but since it's mainly static, you can scale for very cheap by generating static pages whenever a new entry is added. I would recommend against monetizing it too quickly, as that might deter adoption/growth.
7) I recommend removing the "Pricing" link from the top. Since the website is free, this link will only drive users away. Instead, keep it in the footer. It would be clearer to label it as "Submit (Sponsored)" or something similar.
Good luck with your project!
Wow! So many suggestions, this provides a great direction for my subsequent modifications to the website, thank you, Zizaco.
As for other suggestions, I need to digest them well, thank you!
Thank you for considering the feedback.
Regarding
toolify.ai
. Their homepage already presents options to filter the list further, which I would say is equivalent to my suggestion.Have a good one!
Awesome! Looks like alot of effort went into building this good stuff.
I cant imagine any of these templates being linked to somewhere other than github? Imo itd be great to integrate github repo stats better into the UI (as a first class citizen of sorts), maybe being able to sorr by github popularity or showing the stars each repo has would be awesome.
Hi, Thomas, in addition to Github, it will also link to some template markets (these markets usually include both paid and free options), as the website states, it will only link to free templates;
But GitHub is indeed the website with the most links, so it can be considered to add the GitHub status to the details page.
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