I thought I had sent this to the entire list, but maybe just replied to the OP. There are a lot of great free HTML templates available at Open Source Web Design: http://www.oswd.org/ Also, if you build your site in a free content management system like WordPress or Drupal, you have a choice of dozens or hundreds of free templates: http://wordpress.org/ -- for blogs and light-weight content management http://drupal.org/ -- for heavier duty content management, blogs, multi-user blogs, community sites, etc.