5 flat templates for inspiration

Using of shiny embossed buttons and fabric-textured backgrounds, emulating real-world effects of light, shadow, and depth on-screen by using textures, gradients and drop-shadows are in trend last years. This features of design has been made even more popular by apps like the Apple book store which emulates a wooden book shelf, and the calendar app that looks like a spiral notebook. But, like all trends, this features of design is starting to fade. Designers want to make something simply and, at the same time, attractive. Look at some of the top interface designs of 2013 and you'll see that flat templates are rising its popularity. With Android, Windows 8 and Apple IO7 adopting flat design in their UIs, you can bet we will see more and more flat templates. In this article we present some flat design templates.

1.Nano3 - great cusomizable flat template for Joomla

Nano theme is a great cusomizable template for joomla. Lightweight and streamlined Nano3 flat template is based on Warp 7 framework. Nice administration area with all theme options in one place. Them has a customizer with color picker and Google fonts support. So if you want minimalistic design and good working template for joomla, you found it.

2.Flat Pixel - creative flat template

Flat Pixel - is a premium and creative Joomla 2.5 - 3.1 flat template with awesome effects. Clean design with Flat elements make Flat Pixel one of the best solution for creative company , graphic designer , photographers etc. It is based on Twitter Boostrap and it's Fully Responsive, looks great on all screen sizes and platforms. This flat template include amazingly beautiful OS touch slider with Drag and Drop features and also image gallery in which you can place your portfolio. You will not find another template with such a great features.

3.Creativity - one page portfolio flat template

This Joomla flat template will help you to create a portfolio website with the latest trends look. Creativity has an up-to-date and flat styled one page header thanks to its great customization  You can make icons move because template has a lot of animations  It is also interesting that there is a parallax scrolling effect used in the header which makes this flat template even more attractive and desirable. Creativity is fully responsive flat template, so it will be good looking on mobile devices.

4.Imago - modern, hip, and colorful Joomla flat template

Imago is a modern, hip, and colorful Joomla flat template. If you appreciate new and clean designs, you are going to love it. Imago comes with a single scrolling page with a dynamic in-page menu featured on the right side in the demo. It has several color themes with module styles, both featured and regular article looks. Template comes with dynamic embedded styles for featuring content as well as 10 image border styles and with both Responsive and Non-Responsive options. If you are obsessive about typography, color balance, use of white space, and simplicity, you are going to love these templates.

5.JA Onepage - quick one page flat template

A One Page flat template has all the features required for quickly launching most of the sites, its more of a launch site or for people / companies who just need the online presence but do not have much to show or offer online. It comes in 4 styles and an interesting new module JA Content popup module. This flat template supports RTL CSS style, also it is responsive and fits all the web enabled devices and mobile browsers with ease.