Create your website using a template

Creating an effective web site can be a challenging and time consuming task. Of course, you can hire a professional web designer, but this option is not for everyone due to the high costs involved. What can you do - go to school and learn web design yourself? 

Fortunately, there are thousands of pre-built website templates available. Simply choose the design you want, purchase it, download and start building your site immediately. The average prices for web templates are between $40 and $80.

Basically, a website template is a ready-made web page that can be used as the basis of your new website. It includes a complete layout with images or graphics, but it does not include any text. Once a template is purchased or downloaded, you can replace all generic information with your own content.

By using a website template made by design professionals, you can build your website in a very cost efficient manner without sacrificing on quality. If you are a web designer yourself, they will help you save your precious time when you are very busy with multiple tasks. 

Website template services

•    Templatemonster.com
This service is the pioneer of creating and selling quality website templates. It combines a wide choice of eye-catchy templates and excellent customer service. No wonder that Template Monster has become a leading project in web design and e-commerce. 

The service is mainly focused on web design with an emphasis on affordable products and services. You can buy website templates, flash templates, e-commerce templates, CMS and blog templates, corporate design templates, and other products to build a high-quality website. 

Regular prices start from $40 per template. The average price is about $65. The selection of templates available is phenomenal to the point of being almost overwhelming. In fact, Template Monster’s library is currently the largest on the Internet, with over 20,000 website template designs. 

Template Monster also offers a "unique price" option - from $2,500 to $3,500 per template. You can pay it if you do not want your template to be sold to any other customers anymore (previous template customers can still use this template). The number of downloads is shown near each template. 

All products are ready for immediate download. Try a free animated template demonstration before making a decision. If you subscribe to the Web Templates report, you can get a 7% discount on any product. 

•    4templates.com
4Templates.com offers high quality, ready-to-use and royalty-free web site templates, business card templates and logos at very competitive prices. The products are compatible with any computer/operating system, including Mac OS and Linux. 

The site has a wide range of templates to choose from - XHTML/CSS templates, full flash templates, premium templates, professional templates, and low budget templates. New offers are added each week. While prices vary, templates start from $20 for a site with a 3-page layout.

The website templates can include a number of special features that enhance or change the way they work. For example, there is Rollovers feature that ‘lights up’ buttons when you hover your mouse cursor over them. Some templates may include additional dynamic or interactive features such as drop down menus or rotating images.

4Templates positions itself as a global service. They provide the website template prices in approximately 60 different currencies. Even though all orders are still processed in US dollars, this feature will be very useful for customers from other countries.

The service offers a wide variety of payment options including PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, E-Gold, MoneyBookers, checks, cashiers checks, money orders, Western Union orders and credit card orders via fax.

•    TemplateWorld.com
If you have several websites to work on or like to change templates frequently, then Template World is your good match. Forget about paying per-product fees! They charge a one-time membership fee and provide you with access to hundreds of different templates and designs. 

Template World offers a vast selection of products to choose from: attractive website templates, eye-catching flash website templates, quality logos and corporate ID's, user-friendly navigation interfaces for websites and icons. New products are added on a monthly basis.

There are over 40 different website template categories, so you can make a good choice. Once you click on the template, you will get its full description: number of pages, category, minimum resolution, which software it is compatible with and what types of files are included with the template. 

You can get an all-inclusive membership to Template World for about the same price that other websites charge for a single template. All the products will be free for download (as many times as you want) for the specific period of your membership.

•    6 Months access is $49.95.
•    1 Year access is $69.95 .
•    1 Year access + e-commerce tool is $119.95.

Don't worry if you can't find a template that you need. For 199.95 US$ per year, Template World will modify and customize any existing template to suit your needs and preferences. They can change colors, add images and make adjustments to the layout. 

•    DesignLoad.net
DesignLoad is a large repository of website templates, flash templates, dynamic templates, navigation interfaces for websites, icons and graphic works that you can download and modify according to your needs. The new products are added on daily basis.

Design Load customers can download as many website templates (within the limits of their membership type) as their want for one simple fee. There are two options of signing up: premium membership and standard membership. 

•    Premium membership is $99.95 per year
•    Standard membership is $49.95 per year

If you buy a standard membership, you can download products from 30 standard categories for period of 1 year. No additional charges apply. If you would like to have access to all 66 categories, you need to register for a premium account. 

•    FlashMint.com
Flash Mint offers 8 major types of templates: flash templates, HTML templates, HTML templates with flash header, flash intro templates, swish templates, OsCommerce templates, CSS templates and CMS flash templates. You can search all of their products by type, keywords, category and template number.

All the templates created by Flash Mint professional web designers possess not only eye-catching and quality design but they are also highly interactive. Thus you can improve your websites presentation making it the most dynamic source on the web. 

The prices for website templates start out as low as $40 per product. If you purchase a template at unique price (which can be over $3500), it will be removed from the web site, so nobody will buy it anymore.