Frequently Asked Questions

TEMPLATED is a collection of free, Creative Commons-licensed CSS, HTML5, and responsive site templates, designed and built by Cherry, Doni, AJ, and occasionally our good friends Rafi (design) and Eduardo (code).

A starting point for a website. Usually consists of at least one or more HTML files, a stylesheet, and optionally a few support images and scripts. The HTML is where your content lives (eg. text and photos), while the rest of the stuff handles the presentation of that content. See this article for a great explanation on how this works.

A special kind of site template that's 1. built on HTML5 (the latest HTML standard), and 2. designed to respond to the size of your screen and deliver the experience most optimal for it (whether it's a huge 30" desktop display or a 4" mobile phone). It does this by automatically switching between blocks of CSS rules that each target a specific range of screen sizes (commonly referred to as media queries).

All of our freebies are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so basically anything (even commercial stuff). The catch? Just give us a visible credit somewhere on the site (like a credits page or something).

Almost any text editor (eg. Notepad) will do the job, but a dedicated code editor like Atom or Sublime Text will offer a much richer experience and a ton of useful coding features (like syntax highlighting).

Sitepoint's HTML and CSS references are great places to start. There's also the W3's very own HTML training resources.

Our responsive stuff relies mostly on vanilla CSS, but we do use some features of Skel for convenience (eg. resets and breakpoint management). If you've never used it before, be sure to check out its documentation.

Practice! Freebies are a great way to experiment with random new ideas, and as some of them might actually end up being useful to someone we figure releasing them (under a permissive license like the CCA) is a good thing.

Sure, check out the bottom of our license page.