HTML5 templates have become extremely popular and for a good reason. HTML5 is still a work in process, but it has brought a lot of new features to the table. Recent versions of the leading browsers support many of them already, and they continue to add new features.
The new tags available in HTML5 includes the <canvas> element for 2D drawing, the <video> and <audio> elements for media playback, the new content-specific elements, like <article>, <footer>, <header>, <nav>, <section> and new form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search. In addition, the arrival of CSS3 adds even more power in the hands of web designers.
The benefits of HTML5 templates are many and new tags will help web designers build stunning future proof websites without the need for proprietary plugins like e.g. Flash.
In this article, I share a collection of high quality HTML5 themes to provide inspiration and insights about HTML5 based web design. Hopefully, this collection will help in creating your own HTML5 powered website.
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Premium HTML5 Templates
Nevia – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Nevia is the awesome responsive HTML5 template created for corporate and portfolio websites – business site needn’t be boring! It features a very clean and minimal design that is perfect for showcasing your work. It is also optimized for Retina Displays (used in iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro Retina).
Delicate – Responsive Multipurpose HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Delicate is a responsive, multi purpose html5+CSS3 template for businesses, media agencies, software companies, consultants, ceative designers and shop owners, restaurants! It’s fully responsive design gives stunning look to your website on any device.
Leviate – HTML5 One Page Parallax Template – MORE INFO
Leviate is a responsive HTML5 template featuring clean and retina ready design suitable for any studio, creative or personal use. It’s suitable for personal, corporate or creative use and it can be perfectly viewed across all devices and browsers.
Construct – Responsive HTML5/CSS3 Template – MORE INFO
Construct is a multi-purpose template that is loaded with options, and is fully responsive (try resizing your browser). It contains a total of 59 HTML pages! The clean, modern design can be used for any type of website; business, corporate, portfolio, products, etc, and with the unique layout options it provides, your possibilities are endless.
Porto – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Porto is a professional multipurpose template for any business or portfolio website, it’s fully responsive design ready to look stunning on any device. Customize your website as much as you want, you have tons of layout possibilities with unlimited variations and colors. The template comes with 25+ HTML pages built using the Bootstrap framework
Cartel HTML5 Responsive Studio Template – MORE INFO
Cartel is a fully responsive HTML5 studio template that is ideal for the photographer, designer or studio. It is a unique looking template filled with many cool features that will make your work stand out from the rest.
Webpaint – Multipurpose Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Webpaint is a 2 in 1 (Multipage and Onepage) Responsive HTML5 Template with boxed and fullwidth layout options. Webpaint’s clean and professional design will be a great solution for your business, portfolio, personal blog or any other purpose website.
Freshlook – Responsive MultiPurpose HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Freshlook is an ideal solution for your business, Flexible & Responsive (works on all devices), it’s very easy to customize (all the code is very well documented).
RT-Theme 17 Premium HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
RT-Theme 17 is a business html5 template with product showcase. You can use it for business, corporate, product catalogue, tour agency, services or portfolio web sites etc.
Surreal – Responsive Parallax One Page HTML5 – MORE INFO
Surreal studio is different and a bit surreal. It is a Responsive One Page Parallax Template and it has an easy to use one page parallax layout and lots of great features. It has been designed to make it easy to customize. Choose from either a fullscreen slideshow or a fullscreen YouTube video running in the background of your page. Simply put any YouTube URL into the code and your away.
Revision – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Revision is a responsive HTML5 / CSS3 template for business, software or blog site. This is a flexible and multipurpose, modern and sleek site template, suited for any situations. With a responsive design it is ready to look stunning on any device – from a widescreen monitor to a mobile phone.
Boom – Responsive Html5 Portfolio Template – MORE INFO
Boom is a vivacious HTML5 & CSS3 template that works seamlessly in any devices or browsers. As the increase number of people surfing internet on their phones, Boom itself has the incredibly fast-loading and responsive layout which is not only good for stunning display, but also useful for SEO.
Expo – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Expo is a creative agency and photography template. It’s designed with mobile-first practices in mind. Enjoy unique and modern design style developed with todays most effective coding techniques.
AMAZE – Interactive Parallax – Responsive HTML5 – MORE INFO
Amaze is a stunningly unique and interactive creative parallax theme with unlimited foreground parallax layers on a fully responsive layout built using Bootstrap framework version 2.3
FlexBox – HTML5 Template Responsive – MORE INFO
FLEXBOX is the ultimate and professional way for you to present your creative agency’s, business portfolios or the very best starting point for your own corporate website. It comes with a black & white, whide or boxed version and tons of features.
Blocked – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Blocked is a robust & complete HTML5 template. It’s built fully on a solid responsive framework. You will be amazed with the beauty, configuration and how extensible this theme is.
Outshined – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Outshined is a Powerfull HTML template, that both works great on your Personal Computer, or on your tablet and mobile devices. It’s got some powerfull and eye cathing features, such as animates boxes, sticky navigation,revolution slider, 3D JavaScript Slider, filterable portfolio, animated pricing tables,fullwidth and boxed version and much more. Other than that you get working contact form, responsive design, valid HTML5 and hacks for older browser which don’t support HTML5.
Choco – Responsive Coming Soon – MORE INFO
Choco is the new special under construction html theme for your needs. It has simple page structure and easy to use APIs (google maps, google fonts etc.). You can change easily color and fonts.
Eventis – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Eventis is a simple and clean site template, perfect for promoting business or showcasing portfolio. It was built with attention to details and respecting the latest standards.
TYPEFACE – Minimal Typography HTML5 template – MORE INFO
TYPEFACE is the definitive template for showcasing creative business, easily customizable with 17 pages, including 4 Homepage Styles and 6 Gallery Pages. The template comes with 2 skins to help you in the customization process.
Minx – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Minx is a professional responsive creative HTML5 portfolio template which has been built using the Twitter Bootstrap framework. The template comes complete with 28+ pages, six colour schemes in both light and dark styles. Sliders, carousels, PrettyPhoto, Pinterest photostream, a working contact form and also uses lots of features which are available as part of Twitter Bootstrap.
CleanBIZ – Multipurpose HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
This is a simple, clean, but still creative theme for your business web site or personal portfolio. CleanBIz is very powerful HTML5 template which is very customizable and easy to edit. It is made with latest technologies HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery with atention to details to provide you best user experience.
Rekreato – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
REKREATO is a simple and clean creative corporate template, perfect for agency or creative person. It focuses on displaying a high quality portfolio, clean typo presented in a really elegant way.
SmartStart – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
This is a professional HTML5 theme with a clean and simple attitude. It is designed for portfolio or business websites. SmartStart has been crafted with the latest CSS3 and HTML5 techniques. It will easily adjust to any browsing device, including mobile phones and tablets, because of its responsive feature. You can also get this template in the WordPress version.
Royale’ Creative HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
This is a creative HTML5 template that can enhance your video or photography showcase. The complete page template set will provide the possibility to showcase your work and brand in a professional and refined manner. Another possibility for setting up a photo heavy website is to use photography templates like these.
Agora HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
This is a nice HTML5 template that is ideal for showcasing fashion, studios and creative. It can be customized easily with 13 pages and powerful full screen gallery that can showcase big sized works on the homepage directly. The customization process can be enhanced by the Serif and Sans Serif styles that are included with the template. In addition, the themes is mobile friendly.
Responsy – Responsive HTML5 Portfolio – MORE INFO
This responsive HTML5 template is most suited for creative agency and portfolio websites. The solid responsive layout is flexible and can scale down from 1170 pixels to 320 pixels.
Vega HTML5 Responsive Template – MÒRE INFO
Vega is a HTML5 theme that is dynamic, stylish and creative. It is easy to customize and user friendly. Vega is a great way of showcasing your media, but you may also want to check out this round up of portfolio website templates.
Smashing – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Smashing is an extremly flexible and really good looking theme, built with the latest technologies. It included an amazing parallax slider, a filterable portfolio and a working contact form. This template is optimized for both desktop and mobile devices. Give it a try on your iPhone!
Perspective – Responsive HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Perspective is a template HTML5 that is ideal for all kinds of business websites. It is packed with plenty of HTML shortcodes and jQuery plugins like accordion, sliders and tabs. The design is responsive, and it can be edited easily.
VividPhoto HTML5 and CSS3 Template (free) – MORE INFO
VividPhoto is a stunning photography CSS3 and HTML5 template that is designed to showcase a portfolio of images.
Lab HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Lab is a User-Friendly HTML5 Template. W3c valid, it’s built for people who love the details and the visual browsing. It can be adapted to any kind of business, used as a magazine or a portfolio and it looks beautiful on iPhone and iPad!
Qreator – Corporate HTML5 template – MORE INFO
Almost anything can be changed in this template. You can make your own creative design and set up color for all site elements using CSS. It includes 5 preset Home page layouts, Google webfont directory support (320+ Fonts) and more.
Free HTML5 Templates
Deliccio Html5 Theme – MORE INFO
This is a good looking HTML5 template for food and restaurant websites.
GreenStudio Html5 Theme – MORE INFO
Nice free HTML5 template for creative studios.
Folder (free) – MORE INFO
Folder is a free HTML5 template / portfolio theme with responsive design.
NeoArts (free) – MORE INFO
NeoArts is a modern and elegant web template designed for Design/Studio websites. All-in-One page with an animated theme.
Responsive Brownie (Free) Html5 Template – MORE INFO
An awesome free, responsive HTML5 template aimed at businesses and portfolios.
Muro (free) HTML5 Template – MORE INFO
Muro is a brilliantly designed web template that comes with 3 different skins, 7 page layouts as well as jQuery functionality.
LEFT HTML5 Theme (free) – MORE INFO
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LEFT web template is designed in HTML5 and offers more than 6 page layouts with a unique skin system.
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What a huge post! some great stuff in there, bookmarked for future reference.
nice templates great job.keep it up and more post great and free templates .thanks a lot
Good information. Lucky me I ran across your site by accident (stumbleupon).
I have bookmarked it for later!
These templates are just Awesome!
Here’s another free HTML5 template that would be helpful http://css-free-templates.com/light/free-html5-template-busymode/
Huhu, ich bin ziemlich begeistert über diesen Posting. Dafür will ich
mich wirklich bedanken. Sehe ich es denn richtig, dass
dies auch weiterhin den gültigen Inhalt widerspiegelt? Oder gibt es derzeit etwas Neueres?
Wenn das jetzt so ist, dann würde ich das sehr gerne mitbekommen,
wenn dies irgendwie geht. Recht herzlichen Dank schonmal!
The advantages of HTML5 are many and new labels will help web developers develop amazing upcoming evidence sites without the need for exclusive plug-ins like e.g. Display.
nice post!!!!!!
Thanks for a great list of themes!
With HTML5 you can stream audio and video without no need of third party plug-in such as flash.You can create player controls that are fully programmable with JavaScript.
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Thanks, wanted for my new site.
It would be very usefull if there was a tutorial on how to convert one of these for Drupal. There aren’t so many good templates for Drupal
Not sure what about other templates here, but I know that one of these is available for Drupal as well.
http://themeforest.net/item/perspective-responsive-html5-css3-drupal-theme/3107906
Awesome i love white neat and clean beautiful templates but all are paid
i agree with sagar all the niceones you have to pay a premium
It does not state anywhere that these templates are “FREE” (as in free to do whatever you want with), why are people assuming that they are?
You can download some of them ditrectly to play with and learn but if you inted to use them they require paying for. It clearly states this on each of the templates sites.
Do your research correctly first regarding useage rights with any template/s.
There is a BIG hint above in blue text starting “Disclosure:”
Thanks for sharing this useful information!
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