New Template - Carbide

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Kirksville Web Design has a new Google Sites theme available named Carbide, which sports a sophisticated design perfect for businesses, photographers, and tech websites.

Carbide makes good use of the 100+ new web fonts available for Google Sites, mainly using the popular Lobster font. The main background (background image) is textured and gradient to make it interesting. The footer background (background wrapper image) provides perfect space for footer information like links and contact info. Did you know that background wrapper image is layered above background image and background color. That makes it great for footer backgrounds!

Bold bright text really pops off the cool stark background

As seen here, you can use one grand image (site is 900px wide) to show off your product in high-definition. This would be perfect for embedding a video or iframe for a slideshow.

The navigation disregards even the horizontal navigation because of its limitation. Although your navigation title font can be changed, often times it is an entirely too small font size to warrant legibility.


Footer Background as Background Wrapper Image

Exotically colored button really stand out from the cold carbon style background, use this to your advantage.

This new free template is published to the Google Sites template database and is titled Carbide. Enjoy and explore.

Comments

  1. William WagnerJuly 31, 2011 at 9:56 PM

    That template is definitely unique. I should probably try using it in my site. Thanks for sharing.

    web design Perth

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  2. yasraSeptember 6, 2011 at 5:49 AM

    Thanks for sharing that tutorial. I find it easy to navigate Google because of your help. web design perth

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  3. Andrea FoxNovember 3, 2011 at 2:02 AM

    Carbide has a great font directory and I highly recommend their template for creating a website.

    web design norwich

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  4. Kenjie WilliamsDecember 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM

    Simple and easy to navigate. What font did the template use?

    seo reseller

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  5. web design clevelandJanuary 8, 2012 at 11:38 PM

    If you want to have a cool website with great yet simple design, then you need to have this Carbide on your list. Great design and font indeed.

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  6. AllieJanuary 26, 2012 at 6:02 PM

    I like this new, clean template. Works like white label SEO.

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  7. Jennifer SwiftApril 26, 2012 at 12:24 AM

    The new template looks very compelling. My friend has a photography blog, and I think the Carbide template would be a great web design for his blog.

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