Buying template packages?
Hello! I just purchased a pack of templates from protemplates.ca . While I am very happy with the package (I'm no designer and the templates are good), I'm wondering if there is any way to tell how many times the template has been used before? I don't expect that I should have exclusive rights (30 premium templates for $30...Canadian dollars at that), but still, I'd like to know the difference if it is 10 times or 10000 times.
Thanks in advance!
teammatt3 posted this at 03:19 — 27th October 2005.
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I'd be willing to bet those have been used hundreds of times. Using templates won't give you the professional identity you are probably looking for. It is really worth it to find a good designer to develop a custom template.
bedby12 posted this at 09:05 — 27th October 2005.
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Hi I have purchased templates, but when I try to use them they keep resizing themselves, is there any way I could lock a template so I could just type in what I want?
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DARREN
Megan posted this at 13:23 — 27th October 2005.
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Darren - check the width of the table and see if it's in pixels (px) or percentage. If it's in percentage it might do weird things. Or is it resizing in the HTML editor? That's a problem with tables - if they don't have a width defined they'll do weird things (and might still, depending on the HTML editor and browser).
If you keep having problems post a URL and we'll have a look.
Chris - 30 for $30?? You get what you pay for! Chances are those have been used a lot, and they're not super great quality to begin with. What you could do is use one of them as a jumping off point for your own design and customize it so it looks more original.
Megan
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kazimmerman posted this at 14:09 — 27th October 2005.
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You could easily hire a fairly good web designer for around $30 that would at least get you a unique template, rather than having 30 different ones that have been used hundreds of times all around the web.
Kurtis
DaveyBoy posted this at 22:05 — 27th October 2005.
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:eek: isn't that about 10 pounds or so $30 Canadian. Well, i've yet to see a good designer working for so little!
locatepeople posted this at 20:00 — 27th October 2005.
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that said, chances are your customers won't notice. they'd be surfing for a long time before they found an indentical site. i doubt they'd even remember if they did.
And you've got a nice looking site out of it.
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popinsiteads posted this at 20:27 — 27th October 2005.
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templates are like our skin - would you wear someone elses?
kazimmerman posted this at 22:27 — 27th October 2005.
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*clears throat* Well, I said "fairly good".
I was just trying to say that for not much more, you could get a unique template.
Andromeda posted this at 04:01 — 3rd November 2005.
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Hi Chris welcome abaord.. I still think that getting your stuff customized is the best thing!
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