We at Skynox Tech are busy redesigning our website. In the past few days, we've debated about colors, fonts, designs, logos, UX, and almost everything else. 🙆♂️🙆♀️
While the whole process has been fun, taking too many decisions in too little time has been somewhat overwhelming for the team.
It got me thinking - maybe ready-to-use website templates would be a good idea?!
What do you people think? Are there any negatives I'm not seeing? Do you know of any good places where I can find the best website templates?
Share your thoughts below! 🙌
Top comments (12)
My experience using templates in the past have been bittersweet, more bitter than sweet.
Inevitably customization is required. It generally takes longer to figure out how to tweak the existing template the right way to get what you want. And often after a few tweaks, it doesn't even resemble the original glossy template that you chose...
Well, that must hurt! 😧
I think it depends on your goals for the site.
Templates have their use. I think when you use them for a website, you facilitate the creation of terraced houses, and terraced houses appeal to some people.
If your site values function over form, templates can be a good tool to leverage.
But it's hard to stand out from a crowd when you're part of it; even in the case of a terraced house, it's hard to say any one of them has their own character or brand that is distinct and separate from the others, beyond something superficial like "façade color."
So if any of your goals include something like "differentiate", "be memorable", or "communicate a brand message", a template is probably not the right path for you.
The terraced houses analogy makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing this!
Nice, if premium then, themeforest.net , envato.com I think, . By the way Did you find any other ?
Thanks for sharing these.
And no, I couldn't really find a good, mess-free platform that truly had mindblowing designs :(
Also you can check below comment:
dev.to/shaijut/comment/12k1c
Finally after research, Kindly share with us the websites you found. :)
Did you finally found the templates ?
Kindly share with us the websites you found. :)
My experience with ready made templates is you get what you pay for. They are nice if you want to use them as they are but if you start customizing them you will probably need to take more time then actually starting something on your own. At least that is my experience with having used many themeforest templates were the quality of the code was not in had with the quality of the design that was presented to you initially and one more thing I see with cheap templates they are usually full of bloat. You get 100 features but you only need 5 of them it is hard to make the template only keep 5 because everything is interlinked.
Good quality code is just as important as a good looking design. Based on the comments I've received until now, I think this is the main thing missing from website templates.
Also, a little more flexibility in these templates would make things better.
Thanks for sharing your experience though.
A good site for static templates is html5up.net/
But any templates always falls short in some way
Love the quote!