TemplateMonster
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- person
thoughts? some of the designs are nice...Aren't they bringing the value of design down?
- toe-knee0
yes and yes
- -kappa-0
and YES...
- geeque0
They've got a bad rep for ripping sites to sell as templates.
There's even a group of designers with anti-template monster badges on their sites like http://www.itworks.com.pt . They say "Template Monster makes bad copies of original award winning sites and sells them cheap, help us get rid of these criminals"
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- trooperbill0
yes theyre nice - but theyre too graphical - they dont work when converted into CSS - its too intensive
- -kappa-0
Bottom line is they appeal to the moronic masses out there.
They're cheap and nasty we know that, but sit down and explain that to a client who struggling to see the feasbility in playing a designer more than $79.95 for a website design....
- rabattski0
i wouldn't worry about it too much. businesses like these have been around for a long time and they still haven't taken over the world. not only do they depend on what other people create, as in they themselves wouldn't create something groundbreaking but clients aren't dumb as well. they're not really looking for something other companies also have. but if they choose to do so, they would be the clients you don't want to have anyways.
- glove0
templatemonster boils down to buying already-made designs that tend to be impractical implementation-wise..
yes, it's eye-candy.. but designing isn't all about just that..
- person0
well, i am kinda new to design and i am not a professional designer, nor do i plan to be. i was actually planning to open a store/clothing label. i was wondering if these templates might work for me to have something to take apart and play around with since they aren't that expensive. does anyone know where else i can find something like that?
- hiphoprelic0
The company I used to work for bought all the templates from http://www.helendesign.com for use in mass production stuff and they just took a little tinkering with the code and graphics to prep them for our programmer.
Helendesign has been around for a long time like a ton oof other companies and although they stamp out tons of sites for cheap, once they are bought, a designer is needed to put them together.
It can free up a small business' resources allowing a dessigner to stamp out vast amounts of finished product in less time. While this goes against my principles as a designer, the more money your company makes, the easier it is for them to pay design staff.
This was the case for a good while but once I had enough of these templates preped, and our programmer had written code to automaticly retrieve and plug in content, I was axed.
While these template sites are good for faceless companies not interested in identity and designers must be employed to implement them, could this be automating ourselves out of work?
I think these mass templates will just broaden the gap between really god design and real shite. Making more work for the extremely talented and less work for the mediocre.
- welded0
Stock photography isn't putting photographers out of business.
- ********0
it's fair game in the business world. if it can be done cheaply, then someone will find and it and use it as an alternative. saving money is a major concept in business.
- iDp0
'Stock photography isn't putting photographers out of business. '
I'm sure it has stunted the volume of work in their industry though. My boss asks all the time if we can find some stock photography for this and that.
- rabattski0
yeah but even stock photography has to be made by photographers. that's the whole point.
- ********0
exactly rabattski, it's just an angle
- brozilla0
ya, but i think a major issue is that these guys are ripping off designs or parts of designs from some very talented people and claiming it as there own.
that would be like scanning stock photography, adjusting some RGB filters and reselling them as yur own.
- DutchBoy0
right on, brozilla.
it's theft.
guys need to be hung.