One thing that has always bothered me is this whole template thing. You see any website that has the same design throughout the site is a template. I get calls daily from people whose first words out of their mouth are, that they don’t want a template.

They have already spoken to some web designer who has preached to them all about templates. He’s unable to sale on his own abilities so he points out, to the potential client, that what you don’t want is a template. Templates are really bad.

Basically he is trying to convince the client not to go to a template site and buy a web template but he himself is not educated enough to explain what the heck he is talking about or rather why the client shouldn’t buy the template.

The first question a potential client should ask is if their site is going to be a template, if he answers no then tell him you where hoping to have a site that had the same header, footer and navigation throughout the site. You see if every page looks different then a site visitor will become confused and leave your site.

And if every page looks the same then you have a template.

Now…what numb nuts is talking about are template sites that sell the same templates over and over again.

Are web templates bad?

The biggest problem with template sites is that they are not newbie friendly. If you don’t understand the tools needed to modify, update and change the templates then they want be any good to you. So…the template sites were never his competition in the first place.

What I hope you learn from this article.

If you are speaking with a web design whose preaching to stay away from templates he/she doesn’t have a clue what they are talking about and you should go in search for another web designer.