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I personally dislike hosting templates, as i think they are too common and it is easy for someone to tell if you are using a template. Its not that it makes you look unprofessional, its just i would trust a hosting site more if i could see that they were using a hand-made site design.
 
cats-computing said:
Why? I would never solely base my decision on a website. That is a silly way to make decisions.
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Templates that are overused can be a problem for a business. No one wants to see the same templaste twice!
 
Yes, but you cannot honestly say just because a company uses xx type of website they run their business a certain way. That is called stereotyping :)
 
Why? I would never solely base my decision on a website. That is a silly way to make decisions.
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How is it silly? Its my opinion. Of course, uptime, support and prices/features are the most important factor when deciding. I'm probably being biased because i see industry leaders like 1and1.co.uk and fasthosts.co.uk with obvious hand-made websites, and it seems that nearly all these 12 year run hosts with just an MSN Addy for support use templates..
 
Dionysus said:
Thats not the point though.. i was just giving examples of large hosting companies..
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When you bring up large companies like 1and1 there are several people that will let you know how they truly feel about them!
 
I too dislike hosting templates.
They all have this 'Generic' feel to them.
If someone is going to use a template they should atleast do some good mofications to it and not run it 'out of the box'.
 
I have two opinions on the issue.

As a business, I would not use a template. Frankly, I don't like the lost originality factor and I would enjoy taking pride in a website that's not "cookie-cutter". Having a unique template or custom-made design just tickles my funny bone more.

As a customer, however, I would never judge a website based on its design. I've seen a lot of *amazing* hosts that use either really crappy or generic templates - simply because they are small businesses that are more focused on keeping their equipment running.
 
Using a template is ok as long as you customize it. I see the same template used over and over again with the same colors. There are different types of customers, some will notice, some will not, but you want your website to capture 100% of the audience. Sometimes changing a few colors is enough, if you are not technical enough to change the colors of a design, farm it over to a web designer.
 
Is it just me? Every website I run into that is running a template seems to be coded poorly. It pays to either make the designs yourself or hire someone who does both designing and coding. If you do not see the design from phase 1 to the end you can have problems not coding it properly!
 
The problem is that with templatemonster and many of those template places, lazy webmasters, and people with little HTML experience simply download the template and throw content. It doesnt work that way, unless you have the exact same # of lines of text, etc. So most of the times a template is used, unless its 100% recoded, it wont look right.

(We do about 4-5 sites using templates a week, from templatemonster, we never had 1 template that we could use as it came. The html work is horrible. Those artists that do the sites are very good at graphics, but suck at HTML. Or maybe they did the Graphics -> HTML functions of photoshop which makes the slopiest html code you can imagine ;b)
 
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TheReason Is it just me? Every website I run into that is running a template seems to be coded poorly. It pays to either make the designs yourself or hire someone who does both designing and coding.
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We recently decided to redo our presentation with the use of a template that we redesigned around and recoded to pass w3 standards.

We also display the w3.org button at our site and actually wonder if this display plays any part in user confidence...to some extent.
 
prhost said:
We recently decided to redo our presentation with the use of a template that we redesigned around and recoded to pass w3 standards.

We also display the w3.org button at our site and actually wonder if this display plays any part in user confidence...to some extent.
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Good! You are one in a million! Most of the users I see tend to forget about verifying code with w3 standards. It is a shame that templates have gotten such a bad wrap! But it is because people tend to abuse the way they are coded! :mad:
 
I have nothing against using templates, ofcorse its always better to customize it, there are more important factors in hosting other than the design, ofcorse i good looking design is always needed, not all hosting companies have the money to invest in a custom desing that would cost them $1000, the way i see it, this money is better spent on servers, support and security, especially if they are starting out.
 
Templates make perfect sense if used right. I think that there are *way* too many flashy websites with funky looking images of computers and servers to give the impression of a large operation (when you're really just operating out of your bedroom). It's the reason why you have a zillion hosting companies and few to trust (because they all look the same).

At the end of the day, provide information and provide great service. Nuff said.

Roj
 
Agreed, you can know if this its a kiddie host that your looking at, if there us more than 100 pictures of servers :D and images of the data centre, then your probably looking at someone operating from his bedroom as said by niyogi
 
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