A free HTML5 and CSS3 theme

Version 2 of my HTML5 theme

I continue my November Christmas and it’s now in week 2, which means I’ll giveaway the second theme out of 3. HTML5 and CS3 is hot topics for web developers right now. Especially CSS3, because it’s so much easier to build beautiful websites. HTML5 is also so much nicer than HTML4.

It wasn’t the plan to actually release this theme, but it was so fun to make and I really like it, so I want to share it with all of you.

HTML5, CSS3 – What?!

HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML. Instead of, let’s say <div id="header"></div>, can you now use <header></header>. Cool, right? You can read more about HTML on Wikipedia or on html5doctor.

CSS3 is currently under development, but the most modern browsers as Safari, Chrome and Firefox support some of the features. Read about CSS3 on CSS3.info, or use Google to find something about it.

The Theme, please!

You are free to use this theme for any purpose – both private and commercial. You’re allowed to remove the credit link in the footer, but please, please leave it there. It allows me continuing creating free themes.

Features

  • Uses HTML5 and CSS3
  • Awesome design with a hot pink color!
  • Fully working Ajax PHP contact form
  • Modernizr for enabling of HTML5 elements & feature detects
  • Respond.js – a lightweight polyfill for min/max-width CSS3 Media Queries
  • Uses Droid Serif, loaded from Google Fonts, for the headings
  • IE6 & IE7 warning (can easily be edited to IE6 only or removed)
  • Free to use! (: – It’s released under New BSD License. The license is included in license.txt

The theme has been tested in all major browsers and it’s awesome! It looks a bit funny in IE6 and IE7, but who cares?

Any comments/suggestions are much appreciated :)

Other versions of the theme

The theme is available as both WordPress and Blogger theme as well

Update March 25, 2010

  • Dropdown menu support
  • Cleaner and better code
  • More CSS3 included

Update September 1, 2010

Rethnaraj Rambabu has converted into a Blogger template. Download it here.

Update September 6, 2010

Version 1.2 has been released. Code improvements and more CSS3. The theme it now released under New BSD License.
Read the full 1.2 update post

Update April 16, 2011

Tyler Longren has made a WordPress theme of this theme.
Download now at his website

Update May 19, 2011

Version 2.0 of the theme has been released! New design and major improvements. Click the link to read more.

By in Downloads, Web | Published November 13, 2009

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148 Responses to A free HTML5 and CSS3 theme

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  2. Casper siger:

    Hej Jay.

    Det ser da meget godt ud..
    Jeg har dog en ting som jeg ikke helt kan lide..
    “Sidebar heading”, dens link syntes jeg ikke skal have padding, ved hover.
    Bare min mening ;)

    Fortsat det gode arbejde :D

    Mvh. Casper

    • Jay siger:

      Det kan blive fjernet ved at fjerne -webkit-transition: margin-left 0.3s linear; fra .widget li a og -margin-left: 10px; fra .widget li a:hover

  3. Casper siger:

    Hej Jay.

    Det var ikke fordi jeg ikke kunne finde ud af det hvis det var ;)
    Det var mere “feedback” relateret..

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  6. Benjamin siger:

    Fedt template (html5) savner bare en dropdown i menuen ;o)

  7. Deoxys siger:

    Doesn’t really look great in Opera 10.5

    • Jay siger:

      Could you please provide more information on that?

      Some of the CSS3 features doesn’t work in Opera yet, but it should still be nice and functional

  8. Danny Green siger:

    Hej, awesome skabelon, men hvordan får jeg kontakt siden til at arbejde 100%. Hvad jeg mener med dette er jeg skrive i mit navn, min e-mail, emne, besked. Jeg Klik på Send og det siger beskeden er sendt, men det siger også dette nedenfor; else echo ‘
    Der var et problem at sende din e-mail

    »;) Else (/ / fejl blev fundet, output alle fejl til brugeren. echo ‘
    «Echo implodere (‘
    «$ Fejl); echo ‘

    »;)) Else (/ / Brugeren har forsøgt at få adgang til denne side direkte eller en Spambot echo” Du er ikke tilladelse til at få adgang til denne side direkte “;)?>

  9. Danny Green siger:

    Hi, awesome template, BUT how do I get the contact page to work 100%. What I mean by this is to type in my name, my email, the subject, the message. I click submit and it says the message has been sent, however it also says this below; else echo ‘
    There was a problem sending your email

    ‘;) Else (/ / Errors were found, output all errors to the user. echo ‘
    ‘; Echo implode (‘
    ‘, $ Errors); echo’

    ‘;)) Else (/ / The user have tried to access this page directly or is a Spambot echo “You’re not allowed to access this page directly”;)

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  22. Miky8 siger:

    Hello, i would install this template in my site of school, but i must convert this template in a WordPress Theme.
    I am not able to convert this template and i don’t find any tutorial.
    Can you explain me how convert this fantastic template?
    I will the leave the credit link in the footer :)
    Thank’s

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  29. Sarah siger:

    Great templates! :O
    html 5 is the best!… thanks :)

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  31. Hi Jay,

    I’ve converted this wonderful theme into a Blogger template. Please have a look at it.

    http://www.bloggerbits.com/2010/09/css3-theme-free-blogger-template/

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  40. קורס קידום אתרים siger:

    As i can tell its awesome BUT html 5 and css3 doesn’t supported with IE 6,7,8 . The Microsoft doesn’t know what it is for now so i can’t reccomend my clients to build the websites with this new technology.

    Anyway its great to see the progress and see what can be done with it. Thanks for this free example of HTML5 theme example. Will go to see what can i learn from it :)

    • Jesper siger:

      Thanks.

      The theme adds some javascript for HTML5 support in IE.
      Why wait using CSS3? It adds awesome stuff in browsers that support it. If they don’t, just make sure there’s a fallback.

  41. This is a super. Loving it dude!

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  43. This is a super. Loving it dude!

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  46. Heeey I love this Design

    Can u pleas help me to get it on my new fotboll blog maybe ?

    Thanks mate

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  48. Gary siger:

    Very nice theme. One problem I’ve noticed that I can’t seem to fix. When About is current, the menu items are all shown as selected. Click on About and you’ll see what I mean. Any ideas how to fix that?

    Thanks
    gb

    • Jesper siger:

      I see.

      Try

      #menu .current ul a {
      	background: none;
      	color: #333;
      	text-shadow: none;
      }
      

      I make sure to have this in the next update. Thanks

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  51. Sandeep Singh siger:

    You have wrongly added the link to 45 high quality CSS and XHTML web templates | WebsterBox its actually http://websterbox.com/?p=36 please update it..!!

  52. I was wondering if you were still going to be releasing this as a wordpress theme? Working on installing it myself but would love if a pro did it. Awesome template as well.

  53. Staffpoll siger:

    Excellent tutorial, I will use some of elements in my site such as links and logo

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    great elements i learned a lot

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  65. Oscar siger:

    Your CSS3 &HTML5 theme is awesome!! The only thing is the pink color, i will change for another one, but apart of that, awesome!

  66. Really nice. i like it. Thanks for WP version.

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  69. student plus siger:

    hello jesper,
    I want to say many thanks for this free html5 and css3 web template, And also follow you with twitter cause i found really helpful and creative web designs.

    thansk a lot again :)

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  72. tomotomo siger:

    Grate tutorial!! Thank you :)

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  78. Maverick siger:

    Hey, Nice theme.
    How can I make it more wider?
    Like add another sidebar(make it 3 columns)
    I dont get what portions I will need to edit in CSS…
    Thanks.

    • Jesper siger:

      You should take a look at

      #wrapper {}
      #main {}
      #content {}
      #sidebar {}
      

      They control the width of the different areas.

      • Maverick siger:

        Thanks, but I am using WordPress’d version 1.4

      • Jesper siger:

        It’s still those you need to change the width of in style.css

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  83. Robert Went siger:

    I just installed this theme on wordpress 3.2 and it said the theme was broken, reverting to default theme. Now I get a white screen for the front-end and the admin area!

  84. Rudi siger:

    I just start learning about HTML 5 ( so late T_T ), tq for this useful resources. Hope I can share mine soon

    cheers …

  85. Marcus siger:

    Hello All – Has anyone had any issues with Google Chrome and this template? With a max 1024 screen the template doesn’t lay properly on the screen. But I cant find anywhere where it is wider than 1000pixels. The #wrapper #content and #sidebar are all within the 1000pixels so it should display properly on 1024 monitors, instead the sidebar displays at the bottom of the content.

    Any ideas where to look in the css file?

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  98. Vincent siger:

    It’s a nice theme. It’s also funny that you included the ie6, ie7 warning, very good job!

  99. fwank siger:

    Hi,

    I´m trying to get the “Ajax PHP contact form” of the previous version of this template to work in localhost using Wamp and the PHP Mailer v5.1, but I´m having some problems since I´m a newbie with PHP…

    Can someone please help me?

    Thanks in advance.

    • Jesper siger:

      Hello,

      No, sorry. I don’t know anything about PHP Mailer.

      Why do you want to send mails from your localhost? If it’s for testing, I suggest you upload it to a live server.

  100. fwank siger:

    Yes, I just want to show that works in a project developed to the University. I don´t know any free live servers to test it, and has I said, I just need to show that works without the need to purchase any live server.

    I mentioned PHP Mailer just because it´s one of the ways that I checked in the Web that can help me, if there is any other better way to put it to work, it would be awesome to know about it once I´m really needing this to work…

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  104. Klaus siger:

    Very cool Theme. Thanks for your excellent work!!

  105. Biah siger:

    hi jesper, so I wanted to put this new theme on my blog more I can not. as I do. please answer!

    • Jesper siger:

      I’m sorry, but I not sure I understand what you mean

      You want to use this theme on your blog but you can’t?

      This is just a HTML template and not a functional theme. There’s a WordPress version called HTML5Press

  106. Anders siger:

    I put the files in the wp-content/theme/html5-v2 but the theme does not show up in wp theme admin :/

    Any advice?

    br Anders

  107. Julian siger:

    Where do I type in *MY* Email so it gets sent to me?

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