I've been building Joomla powered websites for around 3 years now and in that time I've come across some really great free Joomla templates. There are literally thousands of free templates out there but to be honest the majority are crap. I've personally downloaded and installed around 500 templates and of that number only a few met the grade. I've put this blog together so that others may also benefit from the time I've spent searching out and then testing templates. The best templates in my book exhibit the following qualities:

1. They should have that special design 'zing', that eye catching design quality that makes the template sing
2. They must be fully CSS/XHTML based and must not contain tables
3. They are intuitive and easy to setup
4. They are coded well, adhering to web standards
5. Ideally code is commented so as to make modifications to the template straight forward.

I'll try to post a new template regularly. Enjoy the list