One of the worst companies you could ever deal with http://www.yfs1.com/2006/you-are-a-worthless-criminalnow-please-buy-from-us.html and http://www.yfs1.com/2006/you-are-a-criminalnow-jump-through-hoops-please.html
Your referring to Hyper Templates though, not Template Monster... ...has the law suit against Template Monster finished yet?
I bought from them and the experience was OK. Surprised they felt the need to ring me to verify though. The template itself was crap. It looked great but the CSS was impossible to figure out. They name the images and the styles 1,2,3,4 etc rather than giving them proper names.
They are the same thing...If you buy from any affiliate, you still need to deal directly with Template Monster Mine had a million bugs and I had to get each one fixed individually.
Hi other nottingham person I've never bought a template - if a want something i prefer to actually physically design it myself or if its a design for a forum, directory or blog design it in photoshop and then pay someone to code it for me. Much easier and then i know exactly what im getting!
Template Monster : Guys who talk a lot, but dont bother to protect their flash templates, whcih indeed gets copied and decoded
I bought a flash template from them and it was great. The transaction went through professionally and the support was very good. Unfortunately I didn't back up my pc and lost everything 8 months down the line and they let me re-download it with no problems at all. 313ctr1c's concern with copy & decoding issues didn't even enter my head, but I don't think I'd let it bother me anyhow, it was a great template for $50. If I ever need another flash template I'll use them again.
Ive never purchased anything from Template Monster, but I do go on there site alot for inspiration in design
Same here... its usually just a case of seeing a good idea for some navigation and then using that idea to form an entire site design - along the way though even that idea tends to change drastically but i spose thats what good development is!
thanks for the comments .. i think templatemonsters designs are good but not perfect. ...sometimes i think they are simple they looks like each other...all designs are interrelated ...
I did a site for a client who realy wanted to use one of their templates a couple of months ago (esaamerica.com). I mainly bought it because I didn't want to take the time to replicate the rippling watter effect in flash. That worked out, because the flash portion was OK, but I had to completely re-work the HTML navigation, taking way longer than had I just done it from scratch. My biggest beef is that their 'demo' template had pretty clean html & CSS, while the purchased template was pretty ugly (numbered images like Mad4 said, etc). I'd steer clear next time and just use their templates for inspiration.
I have purchased from Templatemonster but it was a really hard experience to set it becuase it's too hard to edit Saad
Why use them when there are better alternatives (just go to the buy section here and get one of those 10k web templates for close to nil ) I did use them ages ago, and agree the code was sloppy, even if the site looked good.