Templates for a simple website

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LateraLex

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It's been a few years since I've needed to make a website, and at no point was I ever amazing at it. I do know how to read/edit HTML, and a bit of Java.

For my current project, I'm helping a professional colleague who needs a simple non-transactional website. I'll likely use whatever host he is already using but dump some clean looking pages in there. I was planning using MS Frontpage, as I have used that before.

Can anyone recommend some nice templates to use? I think the key here is that they are not overly complex to work on - as I'd like to focus on getting the content right, SEO, some light site analytics with Google, and being able to "hand over the keys" after a week or two of development.

Appreciate any help
 
please, for the love of all that the web holds holy, do not use Frontpage!

May I recommend looking into Wordpress? It comes with many great free templates if he has a decent web host chances are you can install it using their cpanel.
 
Haha, ok ok - no Frontpage. My roomette has Expressions which I installed, seems definitely better than Frontpage.

themeforest.net looks awesome. So I'll be looking a few templates, but for instance this one come's with PSD's of entire pages. Could anyone clue me in on why you would need that? I must be pretty out of date, but I would only think you need PSD's of each logo/icon - or does the XHTML call the entire page up? Very confused on that front, but perhaps it's not about the page rendering at all. Appreciate any info there.
http://themeforest.net/item/business-template-for-company-profile/83454
 
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Designers use photoshop to layout pages (which might not actually be reproducible in HTML/CSS that can be rendered by all browsers). If they're done properly, all of the relevant graphical elements should be easy to isolate on a layer & cut out.
 
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