Mashable! has just published an interesting list of Top 10 Template Generators for Blogs and Websites.

If you are not satisfied with ready-made blog and website templates and want to build your own design, having a bare-bone structure might make it easier. We’ve created a list of top ten tools to help you create that basic structure to kick-start your creativity.

Some of them are really able to speed up your process of creating new websites or blogs.

Visit Mashable: Top 10 Template Generators for Blogs and Websites

Today, we are adding another resource to the toolbar’s Design menu: Free CSS Templates.

They are currently providing 230 professionally looking website templates, all of which are:

• Released for FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license
• Very lightweight in terms of images
• Tables-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes)
• W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict)
• Provided with public domain photos from PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

All of the templates are free to use for both commercial and noncommercial purposes provided you link back to FreeCSSTemplates.org in some way. The website is updates regularly adding new templates.

Enjoy!

It is a collection of over 30 generators, Web 2.0 elements, tools and scripts to speed up website building process and save time and money — all in one Windows application.

Website Toolbox Pro includes:

• a color palette generator,
• gradient images,
• stripe backgrounds,
• rounded corner generator,
• a favicon generator,
• .htaccess, .htpasswd and mod_rewrite generators,
• regular expression creator,
• a robots.txt file creator,
• a website translation script,
• most popular javascripts
• and more…

The software sells for $29.95, but we want to give you a registration key for free.

How to get a free registration key

• Download the Trial version.
• Try it, test it, play with it.
• Submit your testimonial (good or bad) or a bug report (Help > Send Feedback/Testimonial…).
• We will send you a registration code as a way to thank you for your effort.

If you have a webmaster related site, we invite you to join our Affiliate Program.

09/19/2007 UPDATE: The free registration code offer has expired.

When you publish a post with a title like this:

“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”,

Wordpress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:

/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings

SEO Slugs plugin strips common words like “what”, “you” or “can” out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly. With SEO Slugs plugin activated, the slug for our example blog post would look like this:

/immediately-higher-rankings

The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won’t overwrite an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.

Installation: Unzip the downloaded file, and save seo-slugs.php file to the plugins folder of your blog, usually /wp-content/plugins.

Activation: Log into your Wordpress Admin, go to Plugins, find SEO Slugs plugin and click Activate.

Now, when editing a post, give it a title and press Save and Continue Editing. The SEO Slugs plugin will generate a slug. If you edit it, the plugin will honor your slug and won’t change it.

If you find this plug useful, please, link to this page (http://www.vretoolbar.com/news/seo-slugs-wordpress-plugin).

The most interesting part: you can follow along, step by step, as he takes this new project from idea, to implementation, to profitable online business.

I’ll share with you the techniques I use to…

• Select the niche market we’ll attack;
• The techniques used to generate targeted traffic to the website (both no cost, paid, conventional and unconventional);
• The methods used to convert that traffic into leads;
• The all important product development and creation process;
• Setting up a profitable affiliate program;
• And much more…

The market he’s selected for this project is “worm farming”. He explains the entire market selection process and tools he used to select this market.

Duncan plans in the next six to eight weeks to take this project from idea to a monthly income of approximately $2,000 per month.

Want to follow along, step by step? He’s setup a blog to record the entire history of this project — Worm Farming Project blog.

More Advanced Profit Secrets Than Ever Before!

Even the most experienced website owner is sure to find tons of great new ideas for boosting sales, including strategies like…

• A surprisingly EASY, perfectly legal way to get Google to index and rank your website almost instantly.
• Capitalize the hot trend of “social networking” — and start driving qualified buyers to your website through sites like MySpace and YouTube.
• How to get “whitelisted” with Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail (plus 34,000 other domains) — and guarantee the delivery of every email you send.
• An in-depth Wordtracker tutorial that’ll explain how you can use this popular tool to find undiscovered niche markets and hot product ideas.
• Tips for using your blog to create a “Pre-launch Buzz” — and sell dramatically more products and services, FASTER, when you actually release it
• Hot-selling tips for profiting from the 2 Million shoppers who visit eBay every single day.
• The 3 NEW criteria used by “spam filters” to deliver your email — accreditation, reputation, and authentication. (It’s NOT about your email content any more!)
• Get the 7 key strategies used by the Web’s most popular bloggers to drive 1,000s of readers to their website — every single day.
• … Plus tons more than I have room to list here.

The Most Complete Internet Wealth System — EVER!

And of course, as always, they’ve packed in hundreds of ideas for increasing sales with fresh product, website design, copywriting, business automation, traffic generation… and more!

Don’t be surprised if your Fedex delivery guy is sweating a bit when he arrives at your door with your Insider Secrets Course…

… Because this year, you’ll be receiving a hefty 10lb box, jam-packed with…

• Two 8″ x 11″ full-color three ring binders.
• 8 steps, broken down into 64 lessons with step-by-step instructions included for every promotion and strategy.
• Two 400+ page packages for a total of 819 pages, with tab inserts to keep you organized.
• A “quick-start” guide that’ll allow you to make maximum progress on your business in minimum time.
• A full-color, poster-size business plan chart, to help you visualize the process of starting your business, set goals, and track your progress!

Read more: Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet Course, 2007 Edition

The 2006 version of this course (see picture above) contained over 1300+ pages of the most up-to-date Internet marketing strategies and tactics. There were two 8″ x 11″ full-color three ring binders containing 9 steps, broken down into 70 lessons with step-by-step instructions included for every promotion and strategy.

And it also included five resource CDs and one audio CD, plus two DVDs with additional lessons, examples, audio interviews, and articles, as well as timesaving software and invaluable resource files.

Derek Gehl recently announced on his blog that the 2007 edition will be launched this week:

We’ve researched and tested ALL of the latest marketing strategies — so we could find out EXACTLY what’s working and what’s not.

We revisited our time-tested strategies to make sure they’re still as effective now as they used to be. We looked at all of the hottest new tools and techniques that have cropped up since last year.

And then we analyzed and tested them to find out exactly which ones were worth adopting — and which ones were “here today, gone tomorrow” strategies that didn’t deserve our attention.

When we were finally done, we poured the results into one comprehensive, 1,000-page, step-by-step package: our freshly updated and expanded “Insider Secrets” course.

This course will certainly help you dramatically improve the performance of your online business. Don’t miss the launch - I’m sure, they will provide some sort of discount or a special offer. Go to the course website, subscribe to their newsletter and keep your eyes on your inboxes!

This 47 page eBook outlines a very detailed method of making money online, that anybody can follow. It is a step by step plan showing you how one person is making a killing, with literally no knowledge of this in the past, and with very little effort.

• He was previously very active in the eBay community, but had never worked with AdSense prior to this.
• In September, he earned only $42.44 from AdSense.
• His October earnings were $57.32.
• In late-October, he started using HyperVRE.
• By the end of November, he had made $1,518.16 from AdSense.
• After his second full month of using HyperVRE (December), he made $4,141.02… which comes out to be an average of about $133 per day.
• After a full 3 months, his earnings were $9,127 in the single month of January! (And we are talking about January 2007, not 2005!)

You can learn his step-by-step method, for free:

Download your copy now! [PDF, 4.23MB]

(Right-click and select “Save Target As…” from the menu.)

The Tutorial Blog published an interesting tutorial yesterday. It’s a step-by-step how-to article on creating a fake software box similar to this one:

They use Adobe Photoshop editor for that purpose and illustrate the process with screenshots.

Here’s the link: Create a software box

If you like their article, don’t forget to reward them with your digg vote (look for the digg button at the post’s end, before comments.)

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. It’s a great place to visit whenever you’re looking for new website design ideas or templates.

Now you have it in the toolbar’s Design menu.