Geeks on Steroids have spent the last 8 years building and selling custom website designs. It’s been a very lucrative as well as a very stressful business. One of the things I’ve always liked about building and selling websites is the community associated with web designing and online marketing.

It seems that someone is always giving away some form of opensource software that meets the needs of the next project you are about to undertake.

I’ve never really thought about the downside of this until late yesterday afternoon. I wanted to build three websites for myself and it was time for everyone to go home. Since there was no one around to build my sites I bought 3 templates from template monster and will have my guys customize them on Monday.

But this got me to thinking, for $62.00 a template there is absolutely no reason in the world why someone should have an ugly website design. Ugly websites just don’t work and some of the templates are darn nice templates, a couple tweaks here and there and you’ve got yourself a kick ass website design for under $200.00.

I am sure the custom web design industry will always be around but I am equally sure that the cheap templates have taken a bite out of the custom web design industry. This afternoon I decided to sign up as an affiliate an stick some template on my site to see how they do.

At this moment I have no idea how long I’ll be leaving them on the site but it does give me some incentive to do a little online marketing.