Great arguments guys. Thanks a bunch for
your inputs on this subject. I’ll wait for the time like Tariq when
quality themes are available for Flex. Agha Mehdi From: To pile on the
agreements, I haven't purchased any templates (100% against them) but have
edited them for clients. My experience is similar to Jesse. The code was so
horrible in this file I DID hire someone else to do it. If I worked on it I
would've been too compelled to rewrite it properly. On 12/8/05, Ben
Lucyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: Quick agreement from me as well. I used a template from there for
a site I did and the code seemed like it was thrown together in a darn
hurry. It didn't look bad,
but left untouched it was a maintenance pain waiting to happen. -Ben On 12/8/05, Ralf
Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: One remark from my side: I have used templates from
Templatemonster because my customers liked them. I have to say that most of
them totally lacked basic coding and implementation best practices. For example
the classes and styles in the style sheets that came along with the files were
pretty quick and dirty (with enumerated styles like style1, style2, style3) and
none of the templates was nearly done in clean html. When it came to
cross-browser capabilities, I had to manually go through the html source code
of each page and fine tune stuff. Some templates used images (like spacers, backgrounds, lines,
etc.) where CSS would have done a beautiful job, too. I'd say if you need something the quick and dirty way or just
want to reuse the multimedia assets, go for the templates, they are not too
expensive. However if maintainability and cross-browser experience is important
for you, I'd second what others on the list have already said: Chances are it
might be cheaper to just hire a professional web designer. Regards Ralf Rottmann | Director
Sales & Marketing | VoicInt Telecommunications GmbH From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tariq
Ahmed I've bought templates from them before. It's essentially a zip
file with all the raw assets so that you can apply to your own situation
(sample HTML code that put all the graphics together, Photoshop files,
FLAs, etc...). As far as I know they don't have anything that would be
immediately plug and playable. But if you spend the time you can make your own
skins / styles / etc... based on the package. Does anyone know about www.templatemonster.com
and if the templates can be integrated with Flex
applications? Thanks Agha Mehdi IDT - eBusiness Program Manager Work: 408.284.8239 Cell : 209.275.0482 Fax : 408.284.2766
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