[Sonny]

Hi everyone,
I am pretty new, and want to ask you a question about web design.

I have found a site www.templates-design.info which sells templates for web designers. They are cheap, and very good looking. Is it possible? Does anyone has any experience with templates? Is it a trick?

Thank you in advance, Sonny.

[Telos]

Templates are pretty cheap. The "catch" is that the company resells those same templates all over again so it's very possible that someone else has exactly the same design than you. If you want to pay unique price which causes that design withdrawn out of sell, you have to pay a lot more.

I'm not familiar with the site you gave but if you take look at the Template monster or 4Templates you'll notice that the designs are very professional looking and the prices are very low. I really can't say anything about the technical quality of the produced html code but at least 4templates says it has xhtml tableless designs and I'm sure that's the case with template monster too.

Since both places give you the .psd file of the design it's easy to continue customizing the layout so it very well may be worth the few bucks to buy one from those places and then customize it by yourself to make at least a bit unique. That's for sure you don't get a design any cheaper.

[Sonny]

Telos, on May 19 2007, 06:48 PM, said:

Templates are pretty cheap. The "catch" is that the company resells those same templates all over again so it's very possible that someone else has exactly the same design than you. If you want to pay unique price which causes that design withdrawn out of sell, you have to pay a lot more.

I'm not familiar with the site you gave but if you take look at the Template monster or 4Templates you'll notice that the designs are very professional looking and the prices are very low. I really can't say anything about the technical quality of the produced html code but at least 4templates says it has xhtml tableless designs and I'm sure that's the case with template monster too.

Since both places give you the .psd file of the design it's easy to continue customizing the layout so it very well may be worth the few bucks to buy one from those places and then customize it by yourself to make at least a bit unique. That's for sure you don't get a design any cheaper.

Thank you for this descriptive replay
I think I will buy one, and post you my "feelings"

[Sonny]

If anyone is interested, I have finnally bought a template, and was very nice suprised. Becouse it was my first buy, i have got 10 templates for freeeeeee so I would suggest it

[Ben Abrams]

Sonny, on Jun 9 2007, 09:34 PM, said:

If anyone is interested, I have finnally bought a template, and was very nice suprised. Becouse it was my first buy, i have got 10 templates for freeeeeee so I would suggest it

to be fair, whos ever going to need 10 templates for one site..

And most of those templates are quite un-original, so i wouldn't want 10 of them..

[sypher]

You should aim to create your own original designs.

[Sonny]

benbramz, on Jun 9 2007, 10:47 PM, said:

to be fair, whos ever going to need 10 templates for one site..

And most of those templates are quite un-original, so i wouldn't want 10 of them..

Well, those templates were not as nice as one I have bought, but they are not bad at all. But it was a nice suprise, dont you agree?

[Telos]

Where did you buy the template? Nice surprise to get 10 extra templates. Don't forget to show us the final site using the template.

[Sonny]

Telos, on Jun 11 2007, 07:29 AM, said:

Where did you buy the template? Nice surprise to get 10 extra templates. Don't forget to show us the final site using the template.

At www.templates-design.info
Site will be over later, becouse there is a lot of ASP programming to be done, but I will post it

[Sonny]

It looks like I am going to be "template-junky"

[Catalyst]

I buy and use templates from time to time. Of course I never use the template as it comes, but it's a great way foundation to build a design off and in looking through the photoshop layers I've learned alot about how to assemble good designs.

I always swap out images, change the layout around, basically chop the template up. You would still recognize that it was based on a template but if you came across another site that used the same one you'd be able to tell the work I put into customizing it.

The other thing I do is I never buy a template in that matches the type of site I'll use it for. For example I used a wedding store template for a martial arts website.

I also never use the HTML that comes with the templates but instead I reslice the PSD files and rebuild the source code to my liking using CSS for the layouts, server side includes, etc.

So to summarize I think templates are great, but I personally use them as a foundation for a design rather than right out of the box. I still do some designs from scratch of course, it all depends on what kind of project I'm working on. Oh, and on a final note the templates sometimes come with some photoshop clipart files, like 100 different icons or bullet points or arrows and I used these all the time in my own designs.

[karenjones]

Sonny, on May 19 2007, 09:52 AM, said:

Hi everyone,
I am pretty new, and want to ask you a question about web design.

I have found a site www.templates-design.info which sells templates for web designers. They are cheap, and very good looking. Is it possible? Does anyone has any experience with templates? Is it a trick?

Thank you in advance, Sonny.

hi,

I visited the site you mentioned,it's good. A couple of months back someone on a forum recommended me tenpearls.com website developers DC Metro i bought templates from TenPearls they are also very nice and affordable .......
and we are planning to buy some more.........

best of luk

karenjones

[Catalyst]

FYI templates-design.info is just a reseller for TemplateMonster, and they tack on about an extra 10% to the price.

[Sonny]

I have checked them again, and they are resseler for Template Monster, but theirs prices are 5% cheaper then prices at Template Monster

[Catalyst]

I think that's due to the US exchange rate sucking so hard at the moment. Good time to buy anything from the US.

[idezmax]

it's from templatemonster.com. You can find it on torrent site. It's free. no need to buy.

[Ben Abrams]

idezmax, on Dec 26 2007, 06:20 AM, said:

it's from templatemonster.com. You can find it on torrent site. It's free. no need to buy.

Thats illegal..

[sujal]

I have found site to download templates . From where we can download templates free of cost that site is http://freetemplates...ingcompany.net/

This post has been edited by sujal: 19 May 2008 - 02:20 AM

[roje0913]

sujal, on May 19 2008, 02:14 AM, said:

I have found site to download templates . From where we can download templates free of cost that site is http://freetemplates...ingcompany.net/

Sure you can find a nice template or two out there for cheap, but what to do when you see 1000 other websites online that look EXACTLY like yours?

[dyamni]

You can download templates from freetemplates.webdesigningcompany.net . there are collection of templates from where you can download free or paid templates.