I don’t think that there’s someone among website owners who hasn’t heard of TemplateMonster. With the ellections coming up they decided to make a holiday lottery.

Details about the lottery

The 4th of July Special consists in the official Template Monster Ballot, meaning that there are presented 2 template candidates for America-the-beautiful. All you have to do is enter your name, email address and cast your vote on the theme that you like.

Both templates are animated templates. The first one has a  Swish animated part(an application similar to Flash, which can create cross platform presentations and after the presentation is ready you can save it in .swf format) and the second one is a FULL Flash site.

By voting your email address will be recorded, and once the elections are over those who voted for the winning template will participate in the lottery. You have till 9th of July to cast your vote, and trust me it’s worth it(read  a bit below).

I voted for the first one. That swirling flag really got my attention, also i prefer darker colors over bright ones. The other template looked a bit too standard with all the gray used by the author.

Also during the period of June 26th - July 9th 2008 you have 20% discount on both themes, and all the themes that are in the Patriotic Templates Category.

Getting to the fun part…

TemplateMonster wants to show its appreciation for the voters, meaning that everyone who votes will get the Patriotic Iconset for FREE.

Now trust me on this, this isn’t something that you want to miss out, because the Patriotic Iconset costs 55$! It’s like getting free candy. All you have to do is cast your vote which can be done in about 60 seconds(considering the time for previewing the templates).

The icons will be instantly mailed to you and they come in .PSD(photoshop source) and .PNG(fireworks source).

I don’t think that it would be very wise to say no to 55$ which you can get for a minute of your time