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I am designing a website for a client, and I have no idea where to start. I have a lot of experience with web programming, but as soon as I need to actually design the front end I hit a mental block. Basically, I have been looking for a website template to give me some inspiration, but all the free templates I can find just aren't doing it. The page I need to design should have a login form in the header, and needs to be dark to sort of match the clients existing pages, but beyond that I don't know how I want it to look :(. I was just wondering if someone could give me a list of good template sites that they use for this purpose? I have taken a look at Design Basics for Programmers, but it doesn't seem to mention any good places for design inspiration. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks beforehand!

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Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to outsource or for the client to hire a professional designer to do the design work rather than having a non-designer do it. Having a programmer do the design for a professional project makes as much sense as hiring a designer with no programming abilities to develop an application. There's a reason there are professional designers, design agencies, and design schools out there. It's a specialist skill, and it takes time to learn just as anything else. It's fine if a programmer wants to learn to design, but do so before taking on design work. – Lèse majesté Mar 22 '12 at 0:04

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Whenever I need design inspiration (for web, print and whatever) I visit these two sites, although they don't have free web template downloads, they will definitely inspire you to make your own :)

Abduzeedo

Creattica

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