About a month ago a new website templates provider appeared – Template Rover. They offer about 1300 (the number is constantly increasing) templates of two types (Website Templates, Enhanced Flash Templates) within about 50 categories (including some rare categories like Martial Arts, Tattoo, etc.). The price range varies from $35 to $60. Unique price is also available but not for all templates.

Design… The quality still cannot be compared to Template Monster’s quality. But some of the designs is very close to Template Monster.

As I’ve mentioned above the site is rather young that’s why they do not rely on Google and other search engines and actively purchase ads. I’ve noticed a couple of banners on Web Hosting Talk and Digital Web Magazine

Basic Templates has released 5 gift certificate templates. The price is $5 for each template. The quality of the design (in my point of view, only) is poor. I haven’t tested any of them yet (had no occasion) but frankly saying I have no desire even to test them at all as of their look.

P.S.
Members get them for free.

Campbell-Ewald has launched a new design for Chevrolet. As far as I understood from the post on Digital Web Magazine the design is good since it validates. Following standards is good of no doubt. But if we get back to the design (I mean graphical design not coding!)…

With the new design they have lots of free space at the bottom of the home page and with some other sub-pages as well. I can hardly say it’s a good design as I fail to get the meaning of this and I really doubt that there’s any functionality with this space. It just makes me feel like some elements still have to be loaded or… that the site is not finished yet.

Template Monster has a nice template with almost the same layout but without such a free-space-that-makes-me-feel-like-the-site-is-not-finished. With this template they managed to avoid this problem actually when you look at this template you never think that it can be a problem at all.

BoxedArt appeared with a new design. They’ve changed the layout much, added search form, etc.

I’m not sure that I like new design though it looks better than the old one…

How to start with converting your design into an HTML?

Jim Amos from Campbell-Ewald suggests using HTML stamps… Not sure if I will use them but they surely worth looking at.