New free website template: Variant Fashion

I have just uploaded a new free XHTML/CSS template, this time a somewhat different kind of design called Variant Fashion. It is not as simple as you may be used to, but it should still be easy to get familiar with. The primary difference compared to previous designs is that Variant Fashion includes a number of different layout options, as well as visual style options. You can combine any of the layouts with any of the color schemes, and you make the changes by editing a few IDs and classes in the HTML source. The template has all CSS in one single file, meaning that the stylesheet includes examples of how to customize a template into something different.

Below you can see what Variant Fashion looks like (all four screens are taken from the included HTML examples, click the image to download the template):

I will soon write a tutorial on how to use the included layout variations and color schemes, as well as explaining how to make your own adjustments. Until then, you can look at the differences between the examples, for example how the sidebar and the content divs are marked up in the two left/right sidebar examples: Moving the sidebar to the right is simply a matter of changing the sidebar div ID from “sidebar” to “sidebaralt” and the content div ID from “content” to “contentalt”. In a similar fashion, to use the light style you only need to apply class=”lightstyle” to the body tag. The CSS will take care of the rest.

If you find any errors or things that can be improved, feel free to post a comment or send me an e-mail through the contact page. I will add more visual styles and color schemes to this template in the future, this first version is just a basic release to see if this kind of code organization works well for template users.

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