Poll: Do you use Web templates?
Thursday January 8, 2009
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I don’t use templates or frameworks. Every time I make a new site, I build it from scratch. Coding is the part that is the most fun for me so I enjoy making a new code each time.
I’ll second that. I don’t care for taking shortcuts across the things I enjoy doing, so I don’t bother using templates. If the person I’m making the site for wanted templates used, they probably could have built the site themselves.
Well, actually I’m not a constant templates user. But I like to look through the collections of templates to get some fresh ideas from them. For example, my favourite ones are at FlashMint – I like to draw inspiration from their premium flash templates.
yes, still using some templates, just change the images/text.. and there you have it..
I’d LOVE to use a template, esp the ones from Template Monster. But I have no idea how to customize them. I’ve even bought a few and gave up in frustration.
I switched to Joomla and now have something acceptable. But I still browse tempalte monster for the really cool new designs they have. I suppose I have “design envy.”
If I was in a court of law, I’d probably be manipulatively drilled until, in tears, I blurted out, “YES, I use a template..!”
But it’s more that I basically just put things in the same general area while coding from scratch using something like Wordpad (up until the last couple of weeks, that is)..
Even the best intentioned WYSIWYG is for some reason cognitively incomprehensible for me.. My brain has to see things being built from the ground up.. It’s almost as though the pre-existing parts of a template are an undue distraction or something while I’m trying to work on the others..
Who knows.. Just how this particular Mind happens to operate..
I prefer to start from scratch each time.
Every site has a different feel, look and character about it.
Not many people I know want an ‘off the shelf’ site, but it depends what you want the site for.
There are some extremely good templates available, and it would be fair to say that I have been given a few idea’s to work from because of templates.
in a nutshell, it’s horses for courses.
As a student of code and as web master (On job learning) of a couple of civic and hobby groups I have to try one I like, tweek it some, and try and learn what is in it and how it was made.