TemplateMonster.com (www.TemplateMonster.com), a top global provider of website design templates, announced on December 9 that they are no longer merely a provider of web design templates but also a full-fledged Web Design resource, having turned a new leaf in the autumn of 2004 with the launch of their Web Design Library (http://webdesign.templatemonster.com), an internationally refereed resource, which covers all theoretical and practice-oriented aspects of the effective, efficient and attractive presentation of information, providing a platform for the dissemination of design thinking and research. Slated to be a one-stop web design resource, the project began with no fewer than 2000 unique materials, including articles from renowned gurus like Jakob Nielsen. Since that time, the number of daily visitors has exceeded 7000. The number of new materials being submitted by designers has likewise grown.
During the first two months of its existence WDL managed to gain nine exclusive interviews. Among the interviewees were such web design gurus like Vincent Flanders from http://WebPagesThatSucks.com, a constant opponent of Jakob Neilsen on usability issues, and Joe Gillespie, whose site www.WPDfD.com confidently holds the number one position at Google with “Web Design” as keyword for several years already.
Besides, the WDL team has added much to its interactivity by improving its “Site of the Month” section. Now users are able not only to view an impressive collection of websites, but also to read a review on Site of the Month, a feat which was accomplished with one of the top specialists at Template Monster. The staff at the Web Design Library encourages all visitors to check out the forum and leave some visible traces of their visit behind them.
Library editor George Hogan noted that a dream grew into a Web design project that hundreds of people participated in and then became a world-wide environment where thousands of people now engage each other in intelligent discourse, that the Web Design Library project is a genuine whiz-bang success, and that the numbers of 700 new materials since the project’s launch and 1.000.000 visitors tell him that the WDL team is doing the right thing.
