Templatemonster

Where to start?

Our sales guy saw the template and sold the product based on he going price of templates ($10-$100). In the end is cost us $460 ($115 plus $240 for responsive design and the rest to 'change the color').

The initial product looks good - exactly what was displayed.
2 major problems.

First, we try to customize it we find that is doesn't use the standard wordpress interface. Its all custom fields, so it appears they designed this thing for their use and not for anyone not tech savvy to use. Fortunately I am tech savvy.

Second, the draft and review is either a programmer doing many templates at once or the worst entry level programmer to do this of all time. I quite literally learned jquery enough to do it on my own (sliders, gallery and css for the color change) in the time it took them to get back to me with the "finished product".

It is my belief that the founder was an artist and a web-genius and create a company that was not the ideal scene. They took his templates and through half-assery delivery a regurgitated mess and have a support line which does the same as they don't know how to code or simply don't want to.

Beautiful template. A shame I have to code the rest of it to work properly.

In my case, yes, I agree that they have the most beautiful templates for website. I bought a template for my prestashop and two extra services (logochange and installation). For me, I won't deal with template monster any more after that. The reason is below.

Logochange service ($49) - yes, they will change the logo for you on the excite location of the template. You can do it you own and save $49, you just need to save your logo using excite same name and extension and put it on your web template. That's all. Template monster will not coding\removing or adding additional thing for you. EASY MONEY THEY CAN MAKE.

Installation server ($49) - $#*!. The meaning for installation is not template installation. In my case, I run Prestashop for many years with a lot of items and customer information on it. They said installation means flush install prestashop. How about my old data? Yes, they can transfer it for you for US$199. When you purchase a template on PrestaShop website, you only need to apply the template and "ALMOST" ready to go.

For my recommendation, if you own a PrestaShop and you have a lot of data, please think about it before you make a purchase from template monster.

PRESALES-CARLOS STARTED ME OFF, SANDY GOT ME TO IT AND DOMINIC IN BILLING GOT ME THROUGH IT... THESE GUYS ARE GREAT AND THEY WILL STAY ON THE CHAT WITH YOU AS LONG AS YOU NEED IT... THE ONLY REASON I GOT OFF THE CHAT IS BECAUSE I HAD TO RESEARCH THINGS... AND WHEN I CAME BACK THE NEXT DAY I WAS ABLE TO PICK UP RIGHT WHERE I LEFT OFF... THESE GUYS ARE GREAT... PLEASE GET THE BUNDLE IT IS AWESOME... CUSTOMER SERVICE FOR ME WAS AWESOME...

I really disagree with the negative reviews I've read on this website about Template Monster. I'm a web developer and I've been buying templates off Template Monster since about 2010. I used to pay between $500 to $1500 for my designer to create a web design concept for my clients... and 7/10 times he'd miss the mark the first (and even the second) time!

As a small business owner, buying web templates off Template Monster was one of the smartest moves I made, as I saved my clients money and I also made more profit for myself. I wouldn't dream of paying a creative designer now, as I can get several pages of well coded templates, css files, Javascript & oodles of JQuery libraries, plus the original creative file all for all of about $50-$90, and I can have a base website up and running within 1 day (compared to 5-7 days in the past!).

So I'd therefore totally recommend Template Monster for their easy-to-use website, well-priced templates, comprehensive file inclusion, customer service, and fast turn around once you've purchased.

Well I could not disagree more with all the other reviewers of TemplateMonster. After a lot of searching of a template to suit a rock band, I finally found two candidates, both from TemplateMonster. I trialled a demo (free) template so I knew what I was getting myself in for (I am quite a newbie) and when I figured I could make this work, I bought one of the templates.

Installation was straightforward and went quite smoothly. All the features were as described and I was able to get them and a few other add-ons to work just fine. I had a few tricky questions regarding the location of some specific tuning parameters (e.g. Australian date format) and without exception the questions were answered accurately within 5 minutes each time, even though this would have been in the middle of the night in the USA on the Easter holiday weekend.

Only issue was with support for the Komento system that was included. Since I did not buy Komento from the vendor but it came as part of the template, I could get support from neither Komento nor TemplateMonster. That could have been a real problem except I realised it was something stupid that I had done so I ended up fixing it myself.

It has now been about 10 days since my purchase. My site is live and users are delighted. Check out my band: www.trippingcognito.com and you will see the template in action!