Hi guys, this is my first post on Digital Point. I have a unique idea on an already saturated product market that I really would like to run with. I really think I've found an untapped niche and I'm eager to try and establish a commercial market there. Obviously I can't go into full details on what I have planned as that would be a foolish stance in the current market but the general idea of it is to sell CSS / XHMTL coded templates to a niche market. I'm no designer but can code fairly well in CSS / XHTML, although my talents lay mainly in the establishing and conversion to this unique untapped market as wella s being the money man I guess. Now my problem lays with attracting quality designers to design the templates and this is why i post here today. How on earth do you go about such things ? I have a budget of around $200 for each unique template (potentially $300 for multiple page designs) with rather less for uncoded PSDs. Does this sound realistic ? I had thought of maybe a profit share for designers where they get a one off payment to give us exclusive copyright and then share a percentage of sales of their designs for the entire life of the design on the shelf. This does cause issue from a coding point of view but may offer a very attractive proposition to some designers. What do others think ? I'm looking for web 2.0 style templates and business templates not unlike those presented at resellers like boxedart and templatemonster. I would like, although its certainly not critical, for designers to submit multiple page designs and possibly different colour variants of designs submitted. One question is, in a world where copyright is stolen at any given, how do i ensure the designs submitted for my purchase are unique and fully my copyright on purchase ? Obviously it would be easy for some to submit designs we purchase that are actually not theirs at all so any ideas on how to safeguard against this would really be helpful. Although I also plan to code the entire website from scratch using PHP / MYSQL i wondered if there was already an established CMS that handles such things better ? Maybe incorporating something like the profit sharing percentage above perhaps ? Anyone like to comment on the potential pitfuls I may encounter with setting up such a venture and how best to attract the right type of quality designers to our portfolio ? Your help appreciated and views appreciated.