Professional Admin Panel Skins: Improve your CP Design

Increase Productivity by using a Professional Admin Panel Template
Why are Admin Panels so Important?

Web administrators and web designers don’t realize how important admin panels are until they starting using one of the best admin panels available. Using the wrong type of admin panel can have an impact on productivity and results. What people fail to realize is admin panels are just as important as the functionality of the website and project itself. Installing the right type of fully customized admin panel will lead to an overall increase productivity.

Most people don’t know what they are missing until they switch and start using one of the best CP templates on the Internet. Admin panels should be easy-to-use, but advanced enough to allow web administrators the ability oversee every aspect of a website and project. Admin panels are supposed to make administering a website or project easy not difficult. With over 100+ themes to choose from, why settle for less than the best?

Here’s a list of the best sold admin templates from Themeforest:

1) Simpla Admin – Flexible & User Friendly Admin skin

The most sold ‘Admin Template’ from Themeforest, Simpla Admin is a professional template with a beautiful and user friendly interface. With various smart and intuitive jQuery functions, navigating the interface is a breeze. It utilizes very few plugin scripts (most functions are hand coded) so the code is very lightweight and easy to manage/modify.

Theme Features

Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
Well commented code
Liquid layout: content resizes to the user’s window
Cross-browser compatible
3 Colour schemes: Green, Blue and Red included

Accordion Main Menu
Modal window on any element
Closable Notifications with smooth animation
Large, visual shortcut buttons
CSS Files, HTML Files, JS Files, Layered PSD

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2) Complete Liquid Admin Control Panel

Complete Liquid Admin Control Panel is a complex Liquid admin template that contains a login page as well as a modular content page that includes all the elements you could possible need in your Admin Panel. You’re able to generate any required page from these elements.

Liquid as oposed to a fixed size means all the screen real-estate is used in the most efficient manner possible and also eliminates compatibility issues with non-standard, very low or very high screen resolutions.

Theme Features

Liquid Admin Template
Tableless CSS coding
Cross-browser compatible & stylish

.PSD files as well as slices
Easy to customize with medium knowledge of Photoshop and CSS
Rectangular Notification Boxes (ex. positive, negative, site message etc.)

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3) Constellation Complete Admin Skin

Constellation is a powerful admin skin with fixed/fluid layout for building advanced backends, both for desktop and mobile users. Powered by jQuery for maximum user experience, it provides a wide range of styles from data visualization to lists and calendars, all fluid and nestable.

Theme Features

Fluid or Fixed Layout, based on 960 Grid System
45+ Elements Styles, with multiple variations
Fully Functional even if JS is disabled

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4) Admintasia – Powerful backend Admin User Interface

Flexible to house any kind of application, Admintasia is a complete backend administration user interface that loads last, it’s intuitive and easy to use, it uses only three small images and it also looks good. Having a customizable layout, you can divide the main content area into one big box and two small ones, or three smaller one, or two big ones.

The premium version of Admintasia includes sliders, flexigrids, accordions, modal video, and many other nice features.

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5) Adminus – Beautiful Admin Panel Interface

Adminus is a stylish – HTML & CSS – admin panel template ready to be implemented as a back-end interface of your application. The template uses smart jQuery scripts and effects and degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled. Comes in 3 premade skins (blue, green and red) and with the included .PSD you can style it in any colors.

Valid code
Liquid and fixed layout
Cross-browser compatible
Unobtrusive jQuery powered effects
Implemented WYSIWYG editor
Beautiful, customizable graphs
Easy tabs on any block
Dropdown menus, 4 level deep
Working AJAX / PHP file upload
Super cool image management mini menus

Date picker
Sortable tables
Custom select form element
Fancy modal boxes
Stylish notifications with nice fade in and fade out effect
Image preloading
Custom font with @font-face
3 premade skins – Blue, Green and Red
Easy skin customization with the provided PSD files

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6) Boxie Admin

Having a modern looking design, easy to use user interface (UI) and cool user experience (UX), this simple and stylish administration template has clean & professional code using the latest web standards optimized for fast loading, accessibility, semantics and so on. The well commented code allows you to understand and modify your Boxie Admin as you’ll want. The template comes with 7 color variants: Blue, Black, Red, Brown, Green, Orange and Purple.

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7) Profi Admin – Administration for the Professionals

Having a clean and simple style template, Profi Admin’s complexity and expandability goes beyond expectations. The big visual menu creates the intuitive navigation while the tabbed and the hidden submenu expands the structure to 3 menu levels:

Large & iconized Main Menu – with blend effect on hover.
Tabbed menu
Hidden “More” menu (Click on More Submenus link in the tabbed menu for a demo)

Inspired by the WordPress Administration layout.

Theme Features

960 Grid System
Fixed Liquid Layout
FLOT charting
Sortable layout
jQuery UI
Closable notification messages
Sortable and togglable portlets – similar to WordPress admin

Semantic, valid XHTML and CSS
Well commented code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
WYSIWYG Editor
All-Box checkbox
Includes full icon packs
5 button styles
Photoshop source files

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8) Cleanity Complete Admin / CMS Skin

Cleanity is a professional looking and highly flourished skin, suitable for almost any kind purpose. It’s a compilation of all features you might need on an administration theme.

Theme Features

Valid XHTML / CSS
Light XHTML with Fast Load
Flash Like Animated Drop Down Navigation
Rounded Corners with No Images
Accordion Side Menu
Modal Boxes on any Element Desired
jQuery based Calendar

Tabbed Lists (Also available for any element)
Quick Visual Links with Graphical Navigation
Nicely Styled Forms
Visual WYSIWYG Editor on Desired Textareas
3 Columns + 2 Columns Wide Version
Works in all Major browsers both in Windows & Mac OSX

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9) Wide Admin – Powerful Backend Interface

Wide Admin is an easy skinnable 101% customizable powerful backend interface with wide aspect and 2 skins (Smooth gray, and silk black). Comes with a complete documentation and full support.

Theme Features

Sortable and togglable dialog windows
Liquid (fluid) layout
Navigation bar with unlimited menu levels
Tooltips available for any item

Modal windows / dialogs
Closeable notification messages
Fluid Accordions, Tabs, form elements, etc
Well organized files

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10) Administry Admin Template

Administry is a fully jQuery Powered – HTML5 + CSS3 compliant – Control Panel template, best for content management systems, website backends or as a standalone skin for a web application.

Theme Features

Crossbrowser compatible
WYSIWYG editor
Sortable database
Tab-based navigation
Charts and graphs

Custom modal popups
Form validation
Styled forms, headings and tables
6 color variations
Well commented code

The template includes 4 sample pages: “Login page”, “Dashboard”, “File management” and “Product management”.

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11) UltraAdmin Full Control Panel 4 Skins

UltraAdmin is an advanced cross-browser compatible, very stylish, yet easy to use administration panel template. It includes 4 color schemes (skins): the very hot aurora graphic skin, white, blue and dark skins. The control panel is divided in a login page and two content pages that includes all the the elements you could possibly need in your admin. Using these elements you can generate any required page.

Having a clean CSS coding, changing the color scheme is a simple matter of editing the stylesheet the HTML page loads.

The template includes all page .psd files as well as slices and should be easy to customise with medium knowledge of Photoshop and CSS .

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12) eManager 1.0

eManager 1.0 is a simple CMS skin with a nice and clean user interface. It includes the basic things you need to build your application including forms, alerts, menu, submenu, lists, icons and tabs. The elements can be arranged as you like. Comes with a fixed layout, clean code and documentation.

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Looking for something cheaper and simpler? Checkout this list of Admin Skins from Themeforest.