After passing 50k pageviews at the end of 2007, I've now passed the 70k mark. Again, thanks for all your continued support

1. What fonts do you use?

For commercial template designs: For licensing reasons I have to use a specific set of freely available fonts. Many of them are core web fonts from Microsoft (like Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, etc) or are freely available from sites like dafont.com.

For free template designs: Core web fonts only, since all text has to be a) editable without a graphics editor, and b) consistent across all browsers/operating systems.

For other stuff: Whatever I can get by hands on.


2. Where do you get your stock photos?

For commercial template designs: Again, for licensing reasons I have to use photos from 4T's own photo/image repository (which were all shot/authored by 4T's parent company).

For free template designs: PDPhoto.org and occasionally the public domain photo repository at Wikimedia Commons.

For other stuff: Usually sxc.hu.


3. Is there a tutorial for doing (some technique here)?

Almost all of the techniques I use in my designs I learned through experimentation, so unfortunately there aren't any tutorials I can point to that describe by specific approach to things. However, I'm thinking of having a tutorials section on my site (when the damn thing finally goes online), so if there's anything in particular you want covered let me know.

Been experimenting a bit with new color palettes and shapes and I just got done with my third design in this series of experiments:

one

two

three

Hope to do more (hopefully) interesting and varied designs in the coming days as time permits.

And for anyone who likes a good freebie or two:

Altruism (free template)
CSS template version
Worpdress theme version

Optimism (free template)
CSS template version
Worpdress theme version

Just a quick update. The free template Altruism is now available as a fully coded CSS template and also as a fully functional WordPress theme.

Going to do a few more free CSS templates in the coming weeks so keep an eye out for those.

PS: Passed 63k! Thanks for your support

So I apparently hit the 50k pageviews mark (specifically 51.4k as of this writing). Thanks to everyone who's helped me get there

Things have, as usual, been busy on this end, but it looks like I'll actually have time to get my site up and running. It will mainly serve as a way to distribute and support my free templates but I'm open to suggestions.