Need to launch your website fast? I've gathered the best templates to help you save time and money while keeping your design sharp.
Website templates are pre-made layouts. They include ready-to-use elements, responsive designs, and features you can customize. Instead of starting from scratch, templates provide a solid base. Just add your content, change the colors or fonts, and swap the logo to fit your brand!
Whether you're a business owner or a creative worker, these templates cater to everyone. I’ve listed options at various price points, from free choices to premium designs packed with features.
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Best website templates for WordPress
Zeen - Best for online magazines
Zeen is a news and magazine WordPress theme that costs $69. For that, you get dark mode options for your visitors, voice search capabilities and a mix and match approach to building the site from various demos. There are plenty of extras here, including the ability to set your own gradients and compatibility with services such as MailChimp.
TheNa - Best for portfolio websites
Horizontal-scrolling sites are always a good way to make people pay attention to your site, and TheNa's a fantastic template to try if this a style you want to play with. It comes with three portfolio template styles with lots of customisation options, plus two styles of blog template and a shortcode template with 18 modules for building other types of pages. It costs $42.
Composer - Best for customization
Composer's not exactly cheap at $59, but you'll get a lot of use out of it. It spoils you for choice from the off, with over 50 ready-made demo sites for you to go to work with, covering just about every web design possibility, and it makes it easy to create your own layouts from scratch.
It features ultra-responsive layouts and WooCommerce integration, comes complete with some free premium plugins, and the developers are always keen to receive suggestions for new designs and features.
Enfold - Best for small businesses
Designed to be the most user-friendly WordPress theme ever made, Enfold is a versatile and fully responsive theme suitable for business sites, online stores (with WooCommerce support) and portfolios.
Its drag and drop template builder is just the thing for creating your own layout, but it also comes with a stack of ready-made demos to inspire you. The regular licence will cost you $59, which includes future updates and six months' support.
Maple - Best for minimal websites
There are six reasons you'll love Maple, say its developers: its bold and unique design; the fact that it's responsive and retina-ready; the way that it features light and dark styles; its parallax header backgrounds; its multi sidebar support; and how super-easy to use it is.
With 15 layout combinations plus plenty of features and widgets, at $49 it gives you your money's worth. You also get a bunch of complimentary add-ons like Revolution Slider, Ultimate Addons, and the WP Bakery Page Builder.
JupiterX - Best for multi-purpose use
Jupiter confidently describes itself as the world's fastest and lightest WordPress theme ever, and its latest version been completely reviewed and rewritten to deliver lightning-fast pages that won't thrash your CPU or drain your battery.
It uses GPU rendering to deliver smooth parallax scrolling, it features adaptive image resolution to ensure that pictures look great regardless of devices, and it comes with a huge amount of templates in case you don't have time to build your own pages with its drag and drop interface. It's not cheap at $59, but the results are worth it.
Avada - Best for user-friendliness
Avada ($69) claims to be the best-selling WordPress theme of all, and it certainly has a lot going for it.
It might be a third-party template, but the underlying framework is flexible enough to enable the crafting of all kinds of design styles, and there are tons of user-friendly tools and options for subsequently fine-tuning the resulting site.
Valenti - Best runner-up for online magazines
Valenti can easily supplement Zeen as a premium WordPress template, thanks to its flexibility and richness. This is a template primarily designed for magazine-oriented sites, and it's packed with options for vibrant home pages, full-background image styles, and parallax.
Priced at $59, it's also high-res- and mobile-ready, provides alternatives for review ratings, and makes it easy to craft mega-menu navigation.
Best website templates for HTML5
Rhythm - Best multi-purpose theme
Rhythm is a fully responsive template form single- and multi-page sites, and at just $24 it gives you plenty of features and choice for your money. This Bootstrap-powered HTML5 template features over 50 pre-built demo sites to work with, plus over 40 portfolio pages and 10 blog pages, with easy-to-customise backgrounds, colour schemes and content as well as parallax sections and deliciously smooth animation.
Recent updates have fixed several issues, including the sub-menu glitches on large tablets and the incompatibility with extended symbols.
Porto - Best for business use
The basic HTML5 version of Porto will cost you just $16 and features a stack of homepage styles as well as unlimited header layouts and a style switcher that enables you to customise your site on the fly.
It's also available in WordPress, Drupal and Magento flavours, with an additional admin version so you can manage your site much more effectively with a swish dashboard and all the widgets and charts you can eat.
BeTheme - Best pre-built template library
Why settle for one theme when you can have over 700? Described as the most complete, comprehensive and flexible HTML template for business or personal websites, BeTheme is simply crammed with stuff.
Fully responsive and retina-ready, with all the parallax and smooth scrolling features you'd expect, it's an absolute monster and the biggest headache it'll cause you is trying to choose from the enormous selection of pre-built sites. For $17, you can't go wrong.
Bootstrap - Best for advanced customization
We know that Bootstrap's really a framework rather than a template. This is true, but as the examples section showcases, even the Bootstrap defaults look pretty good if you've a design idea in mind that utilises a lot of rich imagery and backgrounds.
It's just a few tweaks from a beautiful minimal creation – and that's even faster if you peruse Bootswatch's free themes.
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Best website templates for Adobe Muse
Tersus - Best for creative portfolios
For a great way to create elegant and professional portfolios, take a look at Tersus for Adobe Muse CC (get Creative Cloud here). For just $25 you get a collection of 14 ready-made high quality responsive template designs, many of them with must-have features such as parallax scrolling, full-screen video and dynamic slideshows. There are hundreds of fonts to choose from through Typekit, as well as integration with Wow.js and Animate.css for creating smooth reveal animations.
Note: Muse was discontinued by Adobe in 2020. While existing websites still function, the platform won't be receiving any more updates.
NOHO - Best for design agencies
Designed with creative professionals in mind, NOHO is built to be easy to edit in Adobe Muse, enabling you to get your agency site or portfolio up and running in record time.
Its templates come in desktop, tablet and mobile flavours and in multiple layouts, and you'll find ample features such as image sliders, parallax scrolling and CSS rollover effects. The results are clean and eye-catching, and it's yours for just $22.
Other best website templates
Definity - Best template for Bootstrap users
A multipurpose single and multi-page template by Ocarine Themes, Definity is built on Bootstrap 3 and comes crammed with stuff.
It's 100 per cent responsive with cool features such as video backgrounds, hover effects and parallax scrolling, and its modular design makes it easy to move sections of your pages around until you've nailed your layout. Priced at just $29, Definity features multiple website templates and shop layouts.
Oblivion Magazine - Best for Tumblr blogs
Aimed squarely at journalists and publishers, Oblivion Magazine is a responsive Tumblr template that's crammed with customisation options, features and widgets.
It includes a custom preloader and fancy loading animations, multiple authors, reading time info and SoundCloud player. Made by adraft, it's a steal at $24, although it's a few years old now and hasn't been updated lately.
