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Does anybody know of a good place to find HTML or PSD templates for web applications? By web applications I mean something that is functional and not something that is just content, like most templates at Template Monster or OSWD. I mean something with log in, log out, register, some tables, buttons, CRUD, etc.

All the templates I find are for content, they have way too many regions of recent news and similar to fill up, way too many tabs, huge images I don't care about, etc.

My background is, I'm a coder, building web apps in my spare time, I've been coding for more than 15 years and I can handle HTML, CSS and JavaScript just fine (aside from the servers technologies I'm using). My web apps are just plain horrible HTML and I need something better than that. My budget is non-existent, I can pay 60$ or 70$ for a template, but I can't pay anyone to work on this as I don't have any revenue yet.

EDIT: re-phrased my question which was not very clear.

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My best recommendation for themes is ThemeForest, but I'm not sure they have what you are looking for. They have a section called site templates and even a misc. section.

Maybe to help us answer better you can include which sites you have already visited in your question.

Good luck!

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The site templates ir more content oriented site, but the admin tools section at ThemeForest is really what I'm looking for. Well, more or less. – J. Pablo Fernández Nov 3 '10 at 20:13
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You may try TemplateMonster.

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That's what I've been looking at, and all I see are templates for content, not for apps. – J. Pablo Fernández Nov 3 '10 at 20:09
You may consider to hire a designer from Freelancer.Com. Tell them what you need to do with what budget. You might get what you are looking for. – Douglas Nov 4 '10 at 16:27
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You can't get complete HTML templates for selfmade webapps per se. Different apps will have different needs and display different data, so the frontend code looks different.

HTML templates makes sense when the underlying platform has a wide user base and is reasonably feature stable -- f.x. Wordpress and Drupal.

You could of course go to one of the legions of template sites, and get a plain HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 static file template, and then add the view tags and frontend code from your application into the HTML. I doubt you will save much time by this.

Some web frameworks have 'scaffolding' code where the framework will output basic HTML and CSS to render a data set, fx based on a database data model. Django's Admin pages and ASP.NET Dynamic Data are examples.

Conclusion: If you're not a frontend (HTML/CSS/JS) developer and you are building a webapp, then look into scaffolding code for your platform, and hire a frontend developer to handle the remaining frontend work.

BTW, what's with the 0 percent accept rate?

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I didn't mean templates in the wordpress sense; of course that can't work on a web application I've built. I know about scaffolding, I'm an experienced Rails code, I'm beyond that. I've coded the app, it's spitting some ugly HTML and I need to have it prettier in a budget of 0. I can do all the HTML/CSS/JS myself, what I can't do is design. I would be able to happily work from a PSD if necessary, so I'm not looking for a solution to the HTML problem, I'm looking for a solution to the design problem. So far all the questions I've asked were very subjective and no clear answer won, I'll review.. – J. Pablo Fernández Nov 3 '10 at 20:13
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You need a graphic designer who can work within your budget . Web site templates are not really meant for the applications . Try 99designs.com , post your project and have the designers bid on the project .. It is pretty good ..

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My budget is really 0$, really. – J. Pablo Fernández Nov 3 '10 at 20:08
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J. Pablo - Having looked through your responses to all of these answers I have another suggestion.

As Jesper mentiond:

You can't get complete HTML templates for selfmade webapps per se

What I normally do, because I am in a similar position to you, I can code, by my designs look like crap. You should start to train yourself to copy other people's designs.

This doesn't mean stealing a template, but with a bit of practice you should be able to see a nice looking template and code into your apps your interpretations of the design.

I know this isn't a quick solution, but it is something worth learning if you can't design yourself.

Try searching smashing magazine for color theory and find out how to mix your own colors. Then try learning some layout theory.

It will take years or maybe never if you try to learn how design yourself, but it doesn't take long to learn how to adapt another template to your site.

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take a look here http://www.hotscripts.com/

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