Winners Announced! The Most Incredibly Outstanding Templates.
As most of you know, ThemeForest hosted a fierce competition in January. Our authors competed against one another to win $300 – as well as some helpful promotion on our sister-site, NETTUTS.
After much thought and deliberation, the winners have been selected! Trust me when I say that this wasn’t an easy task – by any means! The quality of the templates this month has far surpassed anything that ThemeForest has previously seen. So without further ado, here are the best ten site templates of January, in no particular order. A huge congratulations goes out to the winners.
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Live Performance Premium Template

“We built the Live Performance Template based on the 960 Grid System (http://www.960.gs) to suit those in need of a website template for their band, group, comedy tour, venue, or anything requiring a schedule, really.”
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Great Portfolio

“Great Portfolio is a one page portfolio and a very clean template. It has 2 color options to choose from namely, dark blue, and dark brown. It also has a smooth scroller to each menu of the page. Contact Form is functional and ready to use.”
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Portfolium

“Portfolium is aimed at creative professionals including but not only : graphic and web designers, photographers, developers and artists of any kind. It puts accent on your work and features a nice jquery slider on the homepage.”
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Coffee

“This theme is a fixed layout based on 960px grid. It uses no tables for layout. The main page has three columns whereas sub pages have the left-most columns merged.”
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Business Portfolio 960

“I built this Business Portfolio template based on the 960 Grid System. It’s one of the few templates on ThemeForest that are based on this system and it’s just one of the many things that makes it unique.”
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Ultimate Animated Portfolio

“This is a complete, fully featured, animated portfolio template that includes two skins, a dark one (black/blue/orange) and a bright one (white, gray, blue).”
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Core 3

“The Core 3 template is very simple, clean and effective. It is incredibly easy to modify and can easily be used for business or personal. Theme coding is very well commented and easy to read.”
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Business | Portfolio + Blog

“A stylish design ideal for a web dev company or a business. The design can be modified to work with other types of websites, such as a blog. And you don’t need to worry about fonts! This design uses only one font, I bet you’ve heard about Lucida. I’m draw this illustration (apples).”
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Silver Spoon

“This is a modern template which uses a lot of jQuery and CSS to create great user experience.”
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Nothern Lights

“An amazing colorful and very functional site template that can be used for general business or a sweet portfolio.”
And there you have it! We considered many factors when making our choices.
- Practicality: How “real world” is it?
- Uniqueness: Does this template stand out among the others?
- Sales: How many sales has this template made, per day?
- Construction: Does the template validate and follow best practices?
- Options: Did the author supply different CSS “themes” for each template? Has extra value been added?
Though no one factor cemented our decision, each was considered when deciding. To those of you who weren’t selected: Just remember – we had an EXTREMELY difficult time making our selections. All of your templates were crafted superbly; but unfortunately, we were only able to select ten.
Once again, congratulations to the winners! Wonderful work.
So..until next time!
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Congrats to all the winners… too bad I am not much of a Graphic Designer…
Congrats all!! Great templates.
Great templates, congrats to the winners!
Thank you for choosing one of my files. I really appreciate it!
Congrats winning authors!!! Some really fantastic templates goin on!
Congrats to the winners, but there are some winning templates that were posted after the deadline, and they don’t have any sales.
Wow, thank you for choosing one of my templates.
One thing though, the link to this theme seems to be broken :/
Other than that, this is great compilation, proud to be part of it
I really like BUSINESSUS’ layout and the Ultimate Animated Portfolio’s scrolling. Both are very slick.
Congrats people!
Great jobs guys ! Amazing templates.
@BazDeas – Actually – we measure according to when the template was submitted, not when it’s been reviewed and posted.
Wow… It’s really impressive. 960 Grid System was used by 3 of them. That’s nice!
I need study more about it.
Congrats for every competitors and Themeforest for this great competition.
Awesome, i also joined and windrowed because of detracting comments of some authors some and uncommon people!
Jeffry actually u have selected the top 10 themes, personally i prefer ‘Silver Spoon’ and Business | Portfolio + Blog for the first 2 places!
Thank you for choosing one of my templates. This is really great compilation and Im proud to be part of it.
The designs are superb, really great work from all the winners!
I do have one crit however – Two of the above themes look _quite_ bad with JavaScript disabled, three others have functionless controls. – Graceful degradation is a best practice too. I wish the authors on Themeforest would go the extra mile and make sure their templates are degradable.
Congrats to the winners!
And I completly agree with james. This should be the next step for themeforest to become an even better premium marketplace ;D
congratulations to all the winners
wow..all of them loook really great….!!simply awesome..
Awesome stuff! I must be one of the “functionless controls”. Most of the time I consider this to be graceful degradation. Of course this could be even better with some good CSS but it’s important to remember that these templates max out at $15.
Thanks so much for choosing my template for this list (Business Portfolio 960). I’m ecstatic! The other themes are fantastic and there were so many great ones submitted this month, I really didn’t think I had a chance, so thanks so much!
Congratulations to all the winners, some really awesome templates have been submitted this month !
Also I’d like to thank you guys for choosing one of our templates as well !
You know what’s funny ? Not even one of these templates is bright/white like 80% of the web is
Cool, eh ?
I’m in awe. Nice templates!
Congrats winners!
Tis a shame that I can’t join you in your celebrations though! Oh well, maybe next time
Congratulations to all the winners!
Congrats
@chad, actually u re making pointless strategies! :@
Congratulations to all the winners! It would be great if you can also post lets say the 10 templates that almost made it.
I like the Live Performance and Portfolium templates.
Thank you.
Please post the 10 templates that almost made it, as well as the 10 next, and the ten after that, until I see my templates !
Anyway great job, I hope there will be more contests like this one !
Wow, Some amazing works in here. congrats to all winners. Keep up the good work.
The “Silver Spoon” uses our icons! Love it!!! http://www.dellustrations.com
Thank you so much for choosing my template Jeff. This is the second time I’ve won a competition here in themeforest.
Really impressive work all! conrgrats!
Oh, will you be awarding those delicious “Has won a competition” badges
congrats to the winners very nice templates i wish i could makeone of these wonderfull templates
Woo! They are great. Some of them were the ones I thought. Congrats for authors!
Congrats to all the winners!
Wish one of mine would have made the cut, maybe next time
It would be nice to see the runners up
Congrats to the winners!
I agree, I’d like to see a list of all the entrants, with some runners-up. These are all amazing!