Please Let me know what you think!

Nice view but I hate this content, I prefer to make a template.
Excuse me.

Hi altemplates,

I just merged this with your previous thread so we can keep all the discussions about your site together. I also put links into the poll so people can see what they're voting on quickly.

The header designs of those look the same to me though - is that what you meant to show us?

I have had many people make comments on my header that they did not like it. So I have put a sample together and wondering if I should go with it, before change over 100 pages. So please help me out go to the original then to this sample site. And let me know which one you like.

If you using it for just keywords, and increasing keyword density, better to put those link word on the templates, and link older template/themes with texts on the front as well, making example a theme named "leaves" appear on the front and put the subcategory, "Other Themes:" under it are links to your themes with the words, "Name: Leaves, Site Template" ... Increasing you keyword density this way is far better and is actually useful to the site...

First off the header part is really busy... a logo and text and a little less busy BG might be better... I like the orange and gray combo you used (im a little biased on this coz I particularly like this combo)... I feel the link bar/navigation after the header is disconnected with the design, and I hope you can do something with your search box, it actually looks like its inserted in the site and doesnt blend well... I do like youve shown thumbnail previews of the themes, but the more you put it on top to highlight it, the better, maybe put the search box on the left??? Links at the bottom makes me feel its sole purpose is for keyword, maybe you can do something about it...

I generally like the feel of the site, but right now, I feel it needs a little tweaking, make it appear more polished, make it appear its not like selling templates rather a showcase of designs...

altemplates don't listen to him!

In my opinion the main thing here for you is to GET VISITORS to your website, of course, that should be target audience.
And only if you will have many target visitors each day and noone buys anything - then you probably should think about changing something, but not before.

Firstly I don't care if anyone agrees. (Hasu seems to be selling quietly - good for you)

There are 1,000's of sites doing what you want to do. I was merely pointing out you need to be the best of the best in order to compete. Perhaps the business needs a re-direction.

A bad site is more harm to a business than good.

Just who are WE thinking of here. The customer or yourself? Time to be honest. Business is business is business.

If a site looks bad or is badly put together it will stop potential customers in their tracks.

I have been honest.

You have taken it personally.

What a pity.

THANKS HASU! I like you. BTW I am a woman.

@ Fizzypopp: I don't agree with you at all.
Website is really nice, professional looking, with a lot of really good professional templates.
How will altemplates sell them - this is another question, that is up to... UPDATE - HER! ^_^.

Everyone and their uncle is offering this service. It has no future as business people are, like they did with the desk-top revolution, coming away from

A) doing it themselves

and

B) letting poorly trained people guide them

The web is becomming serious.

If you want to compete your front end needs to look stunning. Your back-up 24/7 and your response impecable.

Plus the puters will NOT want to pay as they can get it FREE elsewhere - so where is your game at?

Great.
I'm feeling lucky with this forum, again found good resource for myself

Thanks Busy.

I am still on the site and no one has asked me questions like you did so I am going to add them to the FAQ. As for everything unless I really appreciate you comment and will consider them with the others.

2 errors in IE, which are javascript ones:

Line: 182
Char: 1
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
Url: http://www.altemplates.com/index1.php

Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: syntax error
Code: 0
Url: http://www.altemplates.com/index1.php

To get these errors be sure your status bar is enabled and click on the error icon bottom left, in there is an option to display on errors - DO NOT ENABLE that or you will be forever clicking ok when surfing.

The links below the banner also don't align properly in IE 6

First impressions:
Is very slow to load on dialup and has a horziontal scroll at 800x600 so my thoughts are wondering if your templates are like this also.

The row of links under your banner don't align well in Firefox.

There is a lot more information you could put in there, like static or fixed layouts, currency, payment options, copyright rules, what you get in the zip files (.psd files etc). I'm waiting for the faq page to load to see if any of these are in there. after all that waiting it only showed the categories which loaded first.

On the side navigation you have 'programs for sell' shouldn't it be 'programs for sale'?

I had to give up looking at the site as it was taking forever to load.
You need to give a reflection of what your offering, but from some of what I saw these are not your templates. Is a little confusing in some parts, the free templates for example, that page has 3 examples yet they aren't linked, the categories are down left which have to be hunted for.

Thanks. I don't know what thoses errors are I don't get them when I open it in ie.

First off I am getting 2 errors from your page.

Line 2 and line 182. Im using Internet Explorer

Secondly I like the colors but like Renegade has mentioned, its very choatic looking. The graphic on the main body part is rounding while the rest of the site is squared off, which makes it look like it doesn't fit it. Its also cut off on the right side, not sure it its suppose to look like that or not.

I like the header but it also seems unfinished, either do the scan lines all the way across or dont use them.

If you just organized things a little better, took the emphasis off the adds, and fixed some graphic problems it would look real nice and proffesional

I will be taking your advise very serious and look at some other options. Thanks.

What's with all the ads? Are you trying to get people to look at your ads or your templates? Choose one or the other and make it the dominant one because at the moment, it just seems like they are both competing for attention.

With your navigation, it is meant to look disjointed from the grey strip underneath the title image? If so, it doesn't really look too good IMHO, try making it a part of the grey bar instead.
I also like how the navigation does some thing on hover, however, when I hover over the "services" link, it doesn't seem to do anything. Perhaps this is just an error? If so, you may want to look in to it.
Having said that though, the "Home", "FAQ" and "Help" links don't do anything on hover and I actually didn't notice the links there at first. Try making it bit more noticable.

Looking at your code, I'm guessing that you used Dreamweaver to make this site? If so, you may want to check on your table structure as at the bottom, things look disjointed. It may also be linked to the disjointed navigation I mentioned earlier.

Overall, you site looks very busy and unorganised. Sure you may have a lot of templates to sell, but, if it isn't organised nicely, a viewer may just have a visual overload and leave your site. Sell your templates, not your ads.