The Best Modern Website Templates

We have analyzed thousands of website templates across all major website building platforms like Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Shopify, GoDaddy, etc.

We’ve curated well-designed, modern templates & categorized them across types (blog, ecommerce, portfolio, etc.) and topics (photography, personal, restaurant, interior design, weddings, etc.) for our readers.

So we know a quality modern website template has:

• Functional soundness: A good website follows fundamental principles like highlighting the product or service as the website’s hero, placing CTAs optimally, having easy navigation, maintaining clear hierarchies, upholding proper color schemes, keeping pages indexable for SEO, showcasing great copy/story, etc., on both desktop and mobile devices.
• Contemporary aesthetics: Modern-day websites have full-page header images, micro animations that uplift user experience, strong typography, bold photography, a range of color styles (from plain white to mix hues) playful cursors, appropriately placed background videos, lots of white space, minimalist designs, shapes, and more.

This is a collection of the best modern website templates that have the aforementioned functional soundness and contemporary aesthetics. Scroll through and see if you find something you like—however, I suggest you go through our Templates page and pick the category nearest to your website needs to find the best modern template for your site.