This step depicts how to search for templates using a keyword, how to purchase and download them. You are not required to fulfill these actions but will be offered to download a .zip archive instead.  You can handle it using WinZip from www.winzip.com.

1. Go to our general templates page.

2. A list of thumbnails appears.  While searching for a template in any of the categories, you can click the thumbnails for a preview.

3. Click the Buy button to make your purchase.  (In this tutorial we will skip purchasing procedure. You will need to use your Credit Card in order to make a purchase).  If making a real purchase, an email will come to you in 2-20 minutes after your credit card is charged.  Follow a link in the email to download zipped files for the template of your choice.  For now, just download sample template.

4. Unzip the archive with WinZip.

5. Browse the unzipped files to find the following:
   - FONTS folder that contains fonts that you will need to edit the .psd source file but might not have installed in your system;
   - HTML folder with "index.htm" file and IMG folder - you can preview the page in a browser. You can use this folder if you wish to just customize HTML. Advanced users prefer to customize Photoshop file and make HTML out of it. HTML version of template contains buttons and other elements without text. This allows you to add custom text to empty images;
   - JPEG folder with "TEMPLATE.jpg" file, which is a compressed image of your template;
   - PSD folder with "TEMPLATE.PSD" file that allows you making ANY modifications to design of your web site. You can customize fonts, colors and do just anything to make your website really unique. Later you will need to make HTML out of it and.... see next steps :);
   - RESOURCE folder contains files that you'll use in course of this tutorial.

After you have template files unzipped and saved to your hard drive you can proceed to Step 2: Editing your template in order to do customization by editing text and graphics.

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