Hi All,

When offering web hosting, most clients are not wanting to design their own site and are attracted to templates.

I only run my hosting and design business as time permits, but lately, with the economy perking up a bit, I am finding more business coming in.

I am looking for a few hundred really good templates that I can offer clients.

I prefer free/low-cost ones, but would consider paying a bit more for good templates with support for them.

Suggestions? :rolleyes: :confused:

try getting in touch with XD Designs,

http://www.xddesigns.net/XD

I believe they have a few templates that they would be willing to sell

Originally posted by villadrive
I am looking for a few hundred really good templates that I can offer clients.

A few hundred? Well good luck finding that many. I am sure it will take some time. ;)

IMO the client should not be designing the site, You Should be. When it comes to templates you generally get the same look and feel with most of them and they simply become a cookie cutter pattern and this should be pointed out to the client.

You should then discuss with the client what impression they want people to have about their business and find out as much as possible about the business and then come up with some design ideas to show the client and then modify as required to get a final design idea nailed down.

Both you and the client will be much more satisfied with the final product and the client will know that they have a unique, custom designed site. ( usually this means they are willing to pay more)

Cheers, RCMV

I'll have to agree with rcmv. Using site templates isn't the way to go especially if you're serious about your web hosting and design company.

Why not look for a part-time designer you can trust and have him create the sites for you?

email me at omegagz@gmail.com i got feww hundreds for sell :D

i got a whole reseller back with over 100 i can give them to you for some money

I think you should go with rcmv on this one. Templates are alright for fast personal websites that are for information purposes only. But when you get into business, community, and other high traffic websites it's best to go with a custom design. It might take a bit longer but the benefits of custom work will pay off in the long run.

We sell custom website desing at a much higher price than template design because we assign a designer to do one on one work with the client so the desing outcome is exactly what they are looking for and 100 percent original work.

If you don't have time to do design then you might want to think about putting some time away to do so. And if your html skills are more like omfg skills then like eric said, a part-time designer will still bring you capital.

For business proposes, no way, it MUST be unique style, that attracts the consumers to the point of this business.

defintely, best thing is to get with a private designer site and do a contract with them, my normal price for a template is around 60-80$ coded and published but I have a few contracts that I have multiple site deals for where I do them for 25-50$ each depending on the volume of the contract

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Originally posted by Newlook
For business proposes, no way, it MUST be unique style, that attracts the consumers to the point of this business. That doesn't always hold true. Some very small one man businesses don't have the cash for a custom design, don't want to spend time discussing design, just want a basic info page up on the web - this is where a cheap template option is ideal for them. About 10% of our website client's choose this option, from a range of inhouse templates, the rest go with a bespoke custom design (better for them and more profitable for us).

Here in the UK, the Yellow Pages online brand Yell.com sell single page info sites based on templates - with just name, brief description and contact details for £190-375 GBP per YEAR! - we do something similar for £75 GBP per year.

So there is a market for simple template based sites.

How much you planning on spending for 1 template? =0

I think you can get good quality templates within $20 to $25