Are we designers out of work?
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- flashhgordon
http://www.templatesfactory.net/…
I hate it. What do you think?
- CharlesChester0
Burn that website to the ground.
And then piss blood on its dead ashes.
- imakedesign0
what company wants a site that could be exactly the same as 100 other sites.
not a company i am intrested in.
- tkmeister0
i am not worried.
- flashhgordon0
True... But it's a lot cheaper for companies this way...
- beedee0
the only clients i'd be indanger of losing to shit like this are clients who i wouldn't want to work with anyways (i.e. clients who don't value or understand the creative process)
- jpea0
you hit the nail on the head beedee
- kev_charlton0
"Yes Mr Client, but what would happen if your direct competitors bought the same template."
Me and a few guys at work were going to set up the 'Designers against Click and Build' Foundation. Who's for it?
- erokcom0
Yeah, that's such bullshit.
- upso0
we are devo
d. e. v. o.
- mr_snuggles0
I am Jaline..
- tehgee0
i am in pain
- chossy0
so if you are jaline then where is my birthmark eh? and what shape is it..... oh no I've said too much.
- jpea0
tons of people have said this about the low cost/prefab logo companies on the web too.. they're not taking any of your biz either. the people that would go here and get a template or get a cheap logo aren't planning on spending $1000-5000 for an ID system or a site from you anyway, so it's not like we're losing out on the business.
- Rand0
I wish someone would create a "master template" in which everything was customizable. I'd buy it.
- harlequino0
I don't think the majority of businesses go down this road. I think this crap is more directed at very low capital, almost sammish companies. People who need a mask.
- chaztoo0
we're not loosing out on the business, but it's the bastardization of our world and you should want it's downfall, jpea.
I hate this stuff almost as bad as I hate Multi-level Marketing.
- JazX0
I generally crack these Flash files and reuse them hahahaa
a double f*ck them
- jeedoubleu0
There's no good without evil, there's no good design without bad design.
- jpea0
bastardization is everywhere anyway... most criminal defense lawyers could give a crap about ambulance chasers, mainly cause it's not their competition.
tons of the templates on any of their sites tailor the designs to things like (oddly enough), design portfolio sites. why would a company who needs a site, be looking on there for crap like that? all of my clients generally need something very specific from their site and none of these templates would fit the criteria anyway.
- chaztoo0
You make fair points jpea, it just irks the crap out of me.