let’s face it… html css and js were not developed by designers that want nice % relative layouts that look great on any device. no. the first web server was developed by a pyhsicist who builds computers out of television sets (RESPECT :D) in a physics laboratry for purely technical purposes: easy access to informations. He really did not care what font was used or if the text aliged left or right.
in 2025 this still is true: it is not simple to create html from a photoshop or hand drawing design, it needs 3x css versions: desktop, tablet, mobile and a lot of experience and fine tuning to get it just right.
so instead of starting literarily from scratch every time, most developers prefer to adapt a template also called “theme” (yes it is always required to give the same thing multiple names in order to confuse everyone)
- https://html5up.net/
- https://html5up.net/landed
- https://templatemo.com/
- https://freehtml5.co/
- https://bootstrapmade.com/
- https://startbootstrap.com/
- https://onepagelove.com/templates/free-templates
- https://html5up.net/story
- https://html5up.net/tessellate
not free but for insteresting nfold plugin that basically completely replace wordpress’ own editor:
- https://kriesi.at/themes/enfold-overview/
- 70 bucks for a wordpress theme is a lot of money
- also wordpress while still has it’s pros because of ignoring unix kiss (keep it simple) philosophy…
- it is definitive that there were professional photoshop designers at work here
- and semi professional coders transfered the designs into html
- both needs to be done nicely and is a lot of work
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