If you don’t know already 2 weeks ago saw the launch of OSETemplates.com and things have been heating up! We’ve instantly gone from a 0 to 100 /day visits from Google alone, on terms such as Magento Templates, Free Magento Templates and Magento Open Source Ecommerce Templates.

So… whats next?

Well we plan to release a new Magento template (theme) over the next couple of weeks named Inspire Blue, which is a follow on to the previous Free Magento Template Eco Fashion.

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If a Blue Magento Theme is what you’re looking for then this may just be the one. A nice clean design with web 2.0′ish look really shows what is possible with a few subtle changes to the Magento default install.

When you compare the default Magento theme to this blue theme you’ll see that only a few images are replaced  with some minor CSS updates, yet this Magento template is stunning.

If you need any help with activating the theme please see the Magento Designers Guide

How To Use

• Unzip the downloaded archive (download below).
• Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
• Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
• Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
• In Default (under Themes heading), enter blue and click save config.
• Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!
• Have fun!

Futher installation instructions are available on the Magento website.

Download: Blue Magento Theme (984KB)

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The CSS, Layout and Template files are stripped to the core and perfect for developing your own custom Magento template (theme).

This is a great theme to use for wire-framing or as a base for developing a custom Magento theme! A lot of work has gone in to slimming down the HTML and CSS, which makes it much easier to work with compared to the default theme.

How To Use

• Unzip the downloaded archive (download below).
• Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
• Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
• Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
• In Default (under Themes heading), enter blank and click save config.
• Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!
• Have fun!

Futher installation instructions are available on the Magento website.
Download: Magento Blank Theme (866KB)

• Directory 1: app/design/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the layout, translation (locale) and template materials.
• Directory 2: skin/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the images, CSS and block-specific Javascripts.

You’ll notice the structure in our template .zip files is:

• /app/design/frontend/default/template_name
• /skin/frontend/default/template_name

To use our Magento Templates you simply need to do the following:

• Unzip the downloaded archive. (WinRar required)
• Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
• Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
• Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
• In Default (under Themes heading), enter template_name and click save config.
• Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!

If you have any questions or problems enabling your Magento templates & themes, please post in the comments and we’ll do our best to help.

Alternatively if you require an indepth knowledge please see the Magento Designer’s Guide.

Overview

The Eco Fashion ecommerce template is very easy to customize. With minor changes to the CSS and Images you are able transform this free Magento template in to your own personal theme.

Download: Free Magento Template - Eco Fashion (1.48mb)

Features

• SEO Mods: Main page content appears before the Column, Footer & Header blocks.
• Lightweight CSS Menu: Root categories listed in the header (as above).
• Site-wide Footer Links:: Specify links to the various areas of your site (as below).

How To Use

• Unzip the downloaded archive (download below).
• Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
• Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
• Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
• In Default (under Themes heading), enter eco_fashion and click save config.
• Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!
• Have fun!

Futher installation instructions are available on the Magento website.

Download: Free Magento Template - Eco Fashion (1.48mb)

Over the next few months you’re about to witness the beginning of era in online free ecommerce templates. With the recent launch of the Magento Ecommerce shopping cart, more people are able to get a high impact, feature packed online ecommerce website online with minimal effort. And thats where we come in…

FREE Magento Templates

Every month OSE Templates will release FREE Magento Templates to download. You will be completely free to do whatever you want with the template and we ask for nothing in return. We do place a small link back to ourselves but if you want to move it, you can! The FREE Magento Templates will be completely free for life.

Why are they FREE?

Because we believe in Open Source and to give something back to the community. In future we may offer Premium Ecommerce Templates for a small fee but our fundamental values will remain the same.