Free PPT template resources: 12 template websites I have been using, recommend to you
After doing PPT for so many years, I have tried various template websites, stepped on many traps, and found many good things. Some websites seem to be high-quality, but as a result, they either have to pay for downloading or the templates cannot be edited at all. After spending a lot of time trial and error, I compiled a batch of websites that I really thought were easy to use and recommended them to you.
not make any imaginary numbers like "100,000 + templates", but just 12 websites that have been actually used and feel worthy of recommendation.
Let's start with a few ideas about choosing templates.
Before recommending websites, let's talk about my experience in selecting templates over the years.
When you encounter these templates, quickly turn them off:
The first trap to avoid is the "fake template"-it looks pretty, but after downloading it, it turns out that the entire slide is just a picture, and the text cannot be changed at all. I had suffered several losses in the first few years, and I was eager to download one, but it turned out that it was useless at all. So my current habit is: try to change one word first after downloading, and the text can be edited is the real template.
The second pit is hidden charges. Many websites have a big "free download" written on the front page. When you click in to download, either a paid page will pop up, or the number of downloads per day will be limited to a pitifully small number. This experience is really bad.
fancy animations. Some templates add various flying, rotating, and bouncing effects, which look very cool, but appear very unprofessional when used in formal occasions. My current principle is: if you can add animation, don't add it. If you add it, just fade in and out.
Domestic website recommendation
Let's talk about domestic websites first. After all, the download speed is fast and the classification is in line with our usage habits.
PPT treasure
This is the domestic website I use most at present. You don't have to log in, you can download it by clicking in, and there are no messy advertisements. The quality of the template is relatively stable and is not something that is simply put together. Color matching and typesetting are online.
The classification is well done, and you can find corresponding templates for common needs such as business reports, graduation defenses, and teaching courseware. The last time I did a quarterly work summary, I found a template here, and the changes took an hour to complete.
The only minor drawback is that the number of templates is not particularly large, but I think quality is much more important than quantity.
Youpin PPT
The advantage of premium PPT is its large volume. There are many templates and detailed classifications-there are several sub-categories for the business category alone. The quality is uneven, but you can find a lot of good things if you spend some time picking.
One thing to note: the free version can be downloaded 5 copies per day, which is enough for most people. I usually pick a batch of templates at one time, download them, and save them for later use.
There are also many PPT charts and icon materials on the website. Sometimes you will come here to find them when making data display pages.
51PPT
This is an old PPT website and has existed for a long time. There are indeed many resources, including templates of various styles. But to be honest, the website has a lot of advertising and requires a little patience.
Its advantage is that in addition to templates, there are many PPT tutorials and material resources. If you are just getting started and want to learn some PPT skills, this website is worth visiting.
PPT Home
PPT Home is also a relatively old site. There are a large number of free templates and the quality is reasonable. What I think is better about it is that it has a lot of practical PPT skills, such as how to quickly align elements and how to unify color matching.
It's just that search results are sometimes not very accurate, and you have to flip through a few more pages to find what you want.
PPT supermarket
The biggest feature of this website is that it is completely free, no login, and no advertising. This is really rare on free PPT websites.
There are many templates based on party and government style, teaching courseware and festival templates. This website will be very useful if you often do PPT on this type of theme.
Recommended by foreign websites
Foreign template websites generally have a better sense of design. After all, many of them are works by professional designers. However, most of them require an English interface, and some also require registration of an account.
SlidesGo
If I were only asked to recommend one foreign template website, I would definitely choose SlidesGo. The sense of design is really strong, and every set of templates seems to have been carefully made by a professional designer. There are many styles-minimalist, cartoon, business, creative, there is always one for you.
The biggest advantage is that it supports both PowerPoint and Google Slides. If you use the online version of Google Slides, you can import it directly.
One thing to note: Free use requires attribution, which means that an annotation such as "Template by SlidesGo" should be added to the last page or a corner. I personally think this condition is completely acceptable. After all, they provided such good things for free. If you don't want to mark it, you have to pay.
SlidesCarnival
The number of templates from SlidesCarnival is not large, but each one is a high-quality one. The first time I used it, I was really amazed-the feeling that the entire template style is highly unified and every page is carefully designed is rarely seen on domestic websites.
It is suitable for use in more important occasions-reporting to leaders, demonstrating to customers, graduation defense, etc. Its template style is Western-style. If you make a PPT for an international audience, this will be very suitable.
The authorization method is the same as SlidesGo, and free use requires a signature.
GraphicMama
This website follows another route-cartoon illustration style. If you need to do children's education PPT or training courseware for children, GraphicMama is a treasure.
Its templates have a large number of lovely illustration elements and character materials, with lively styles and bright colors. This is not suitable for business PPT for adults, but it works very well in educational settings.
Free-PPT-Templates
The name sounds ordinary, but the business templates for this website are indeed good. The style is conservative and formal, suitable for occasions such as internal corporate reporting and debriefing reports.
There are many templates for data charts. Various pie charts, histograms, and flow charts are all made into template forms, and you can just fill in the data directly. If you have many data display pages in your PPT, this website is worth collecting.
Behance
Strictly speaking, Behance is not a PPT template website, but a platform for displaying the work of designers around the world. But if you search for "free powerpoint template", you can find many free templates shared by designers.
I put Behance here mainly for another purpose-to find inspiration. Even if you don't download templates, looking more at the works of these designers will be particularly helpful to improving your aesthetic and typography skills. Sometimes I will stroll around Behance before doing a PPT to see what styles and colors are popular recently.
Pay attention to the authorization instructions before downloading. The requirements of each designer are different. Some allow commercial use, while some are limited to personal use only.
Similar to Behance, Pinterest does not specifically provide PPT file downloads, but it is an excellent source of inspiration. Search for "Powerpoint design" or "presentation layout" and a large number of design reference drawings will appear.
I usually use it to: 1) find color schemes to refer to;2) learn page layout ideas; and 3) discover new design styles. Many times I will copy good designs I see on Pinterest in PPT myself.
GitHub
The last one is more special-GitHub. If you are doing technology-related PPT, such as technology sharing or code-related demos, there are some cool open source templates on GitHub.
The style is basically a minimalist technical style, with a black background and code highlighting, which is very suitable for technical sharing. And because it is an open source project, you can use it freely without any restrictions.
In addition, there are some tools on GitHub that convert Markdown into PPT, which are efficiency artifacts for programmers.
How to change the template after I get it
Finding a good template is not enough. How to change it after getting it is also important. Tell me a few of my own common practices:
Font unification is the first priority. No matter what font the template originally uses, I will uniformly change it to the font I commonly use. In Chinese, Siyuan is generally used in boldface, Bold is used for the title, Regular is used for the body, and no more than 2-3 fonts are used for the entire article.
Color matching follows. The color scheme of the template is generally not too bad. I usually keep the main color of the template and fine-tune it at most. The safest way is to use a color extractor to extract colors directly from the template to ensure that the newly added content is consistent with the template style.
The content should be streamlined. This is a problem that many people ignore-templates give you a lot of gorgeous decorative elements, but your content is the core. My current principle is: only talk about one point on each page, and not write three paragraphs if you can explain one sentence clearly.
Delete if you need to. Decorative elements in templates are not required for every page. Some of the transition page decorations are too eye-catching, I will simply delete or simplify into a simple line. Less is more, which is true in PPT design.
written in the end
After all, the template is just a starting point. The core of a truly good PPT is always content and logic. A good template can help you save time on typesetting and allow you to focus on the content, but it cannot replace your in-depth understanding of what you want to talk about.
My own habit is to collect good templates when I see them and save them according to scenes. This way, every time you do a PPT, you don't have to start from scratch, just find a suitable set of changes directly in the library.
I hope this article is useful to you. If you have any useful PPT template website, please share it.