Did you custom design your site or use a template?

**Fe-Hosting** · July 1st, 2011, 13:35

Hi,

Did you custom design your site or use a template? We are working on our custom designed site. Just curious what others feel about this.

**iBrightDev** · July 1st, 2011, 13:38

everything i do is custom.

**Zombie** · July 1st, 2011, 14:29

Originally Posted by iBrightDev

everything i do is custom.

he lies.
Jus sayin'

**socialz** · July 1st, 2011, 14:48

I use templates and change the aspect of it. I fail when design is the job.

**Fe-Hosting** · July 1st, 2011, 16:15

Originally Posted by iBrightDev

everything i do is custom.

Nice custom is the way to go. but user like me that only know a few html line's some php is limit on what we can do. Do you work on Hosting website's.?

**Zombie** · July 1st, 2011, 18:26

Originally Posted by Fe-Hosting

Nice custom is the way to go. but user like me that only know a few html line's some php is limit on what we can do. Do you work on Hosting website's.?

Don't do it, he's super far from cheap.
Jus sayin'

**deanhills** · July 1st, 2011, 20:51

I've just seen a miracle being performed before my eyes when Sain recommended a Web template to worlditsme during a Web Review. There is no comparison between the original custom designed Website and the one with a template. Difference between amateur and professional.

**Sain Cai** · July 1st, 2011, 21:31

I normally use only high quality templates, then alter them to my needs.

One such site is located here: http://strat-hosting.co.cc/
One I developed is here: http://sengoku-online.namepad.org/

My strength is certainly not designing from scratch, but altering existing layouts with other images and whatnot to suit my needs. Currently I am altering a free template to resemble an MLB type site for my Strat replay located here: (another altered layout) http://saincai.strat-hosting.co.cc/

When I recommend a template I try to take into account the theme of the site/domain, as in http://worlditsme.com where the space hosting template was on track with the World its me theme (world being the main focus, therefore space)

**EXBInt2010** · July 2nd, 2011, 00:47

I know very little about coding, for sure will go to ready template. The software developers have been very friendly and they have created a lot of pre-installed scripts. I prefer the dynamic scripts where I can customize my own design so that my website look different from others

**deanhills** · July 2nd, 2011, 06:06

Originally Posted by EXBInt2010

I know very little about coding, for sure will go to ready template. The software developers have been very friendly and they have created a lot of pre-installed scripts. I prefer the dynamic scripts where I can customize my own design so that my website look different from others

I think Sain explained it that he doesn't just use a template. He uses the basic design and then improvises on it. I like that. Unless a person is a super duper graphic artist, I think this is a great way of doing it.

**fredpaul** · July 6th, 2011, 22:09

I would prefer using a template because designing work is really hard. So I use to buy a template and change it according to my needs.

**TaoPhoenix** · July 9th, 2011, 02:03

I used a template for some years, but lately I was inspired by the total Non-Templateness of Daring Fireball, so I rebuilt my page from scratch for the mobile browsers. However as a private untalented user I have a lot more time for ideas to sink in. Rumor has it I just barely tipped the edge of respectibility this month after fixing my buttons ... after *years* of letting it just sink in.

Templates get you going, but they're a bit like the Blind Technician effect where you really don't know what you're tinkering on, so if it breaks all you can do ishope your backups are really good for the prior version. A hidden effect of my sprawling host review experiment was that I automatically had versioned copies of my site.

**gmnetworks** · July 9th, 2011, 19:06

I used a friend for all my sites. Site I work for was created by him. Good work. But, before I met him I just used templates and tweaked them to my liking.

**DanielSheen** · July 12th, 2011, 00:18

Custom, I run a web design company so yea, everything needs to be custom in my opinion for me.

**iBrightDev** · July 12th, 2011, 09:12

Originally Posted by Zombie

he lies.
Jus sayin'

lol, yeah, thanks Roger. See if you get any more iBrightDev help

Originally Posted by Fe-Hosting

Nice custom is the way to go. but user like me that only know a few html line's some php is limit on what we can do. Do you work on Hosting website's.?

yes, i do. if you have a budget, let me know and we may be able to help you out. depending on your budget, i may have something that i already made and havent used or sold yet that i would be willing to get rid of.

Originally Posted by Zombie

Don't do it, he's super far from cheap.
Jus sayin'

lol, again, not helping you anymore, d!ck.