sigh...... somehow this seems like destroying our web design industry......

Templates are usually done in tables n css, nothing much can be researched..... the most effective way is to find those websites with lots of effects, no matter nice or not, give a research on its source code, and try to reproduce it to make it nicer... I took this as a kind of training for two years, and then....... hehe... javascript and css have became an easy job for me...