: What factors do you use to evaluate the quality of a website template? Examples of website templates being: templatemonster.com websitetemplates.com buytemplates.net designload.net templaterover.com boxedart.com

@Deb1703797

I haven't bought templates before, but if I were to buy a template, I'd do something like the following process:


Figure out my site's objectives.
Research my target market.
Look at other sites in the same
industry/niche.
Weed out templates that have been
used too many times, especially any
used by competition.
Choose the 2-3 templates that will
best be able to accomplish the site's
objectives while appealing to the
target market. Depending on your
strategy and/or niche, you may or may
not want it to be like other sites in
the same niche.
Do a quick test by showing people in
my target market which template
appeals to them, which would be
easiest to use, which would entice
them to fulfill the objectives while
they're on the site, and so on...Have
them rate each question for each
template on a scale of 1-5 and then
add up your points. You shouldn't
need more than 4-5 people.
Try to buy a exclusive rights for the
template so it can't be resold from
that point forward.
If I find some templates I like, but
nothing quite suits the site, I'd
contact template authors that I feel
could do a good job based on their
other work and ask them to create a
custom template.

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@Murray432

I choose my three or four favourite, and show them to people:


Whose opinion I respect
Who know about the business/product the website is for
Who are not scared to tell me that all my choices suck


Mainly because after you've spent hour after hour staring at a million generic templates, it's easy to get lost and lose sight of the bigger picture. Also, if you spent 2 hours staring a sucky templates, the one that seems the least sucky tends to register as really good in your mind, when in fact it's still pretty sucky.

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