Re: [flexcoders] TemplateMonster.com

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:32:10 -0800

That's an interesting comment. Is that where the majority of templates are done, honestly?

Guess it boils down to, you get what you pay for (regardless of who develops it).

On 12/8/05, Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's because these are primarily Macintosh developers from England.


"John C. Bland II" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To pile on the agreements, I haven't purchased any templates (100% against them) but have edited them for clients. My experience is similar to Jesse. The code was so horrible in this file I DID hire someone else to do it. If I worked on it I would've been too compelled to rewrite it properly.

IMO, a custom design is worth a million times more than a design a million people could have by downloading a template. (subliminal message from Bobby Boucher's Mom: "Templates are the devil!") It seems to be a touchy topic though (to use or not use templates) so I'm not trying to hijack this thread. Just wanted to give my opinion on site/app designs.

On 12/8/05, Ben Lucyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Quick agreement from me as well.  I used a template from there for a site I did and the code seemed like it was thrown together in a darn hurry.  It didn't look bad, but left untouched it was a maintenance pain waiting to happen.
 
-Ben

 
On 12/8/05, Ralf Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
One remark from my side: I have used templates from Templatemonster because my customers liked them. I have to say that most of them totally lacked basic coding and implementation best practices. For example the classes and styles in the style sheets that came along with the files were pretty quick and dirty (with enumerated styles like style1, style2, style3) and none of the templates was nearly done in clean html. When it came to cross-browser capabilities, I had to manually go through the html source code of each page and fine tune stuff.
 
Some templates used images (like spacers, backgrounds, lines, etc.) where CSS would have done a beautiful job, too.
 
I'd say if you need something the quick and dirty way or just want to reuse the multimedia assets, go for the templates, they are not too expensive. However if maintainability and cross-browser experience is important for you, I'd second what others on the list have already said: Chances are it might be cheaper to just hire a professional web designer.
 
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Subject: Re: [flexcoders] TemplateMonster.com
 
I've bought templates from them before. It's essentially a zip file with all the raw assets so that you can apply to your own situation (sample HTML code that put all the graphics together, Photoshop files, FLAs,  etc...). As far as I know they don't have anything that would be immediately plug and playable. But if you spend the time you can make your own skins / styles / etc... based on the package.

But it'll be great in the future when people start publishing full fledged Flex themes that can be easily applied.



Mehdi, Agha wrote:
Does anyone know about www.templatemonster.com and if the templates can be integrated with Flex applications?
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