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Originally posted by slackologist
A lot of design work starts from previous templates.. nomatter how different they may end up from the original template. Perhaps for small changes a specific level of detail could be provided inside the .psd for changes you need to make yourself .. rather than an entire complex template.
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I read that a couple of times and must be tired, because I don't see what you are getting at.
Our designer did these three sites (none of them are live, so this is not being spammy)...
www.teenivirgins.com
www.webspies.com
www.wildcollegeteens.com
Now, if these started from the same or a similar template, it was in my opinion a waste of time to use a template because none of them look anything alike in my opinion.
However...
The member area templates are ALL the same for those sites (aside from the headers). I needed to change some buttons for the member area pages. For ex. I did not want some pages to have graphical links to our "chat" or "e-shop" pages. But ALL of the pages had those buttons. So having the .psd files I could quickly and easily change the buttons and go on my way. Some of these buttons had text the came off of the nav bar, so just modifying the original button wopuld not work. The whole header had to be adjusted.
This small issue took me but a few minutes because I had the .psd files. In talking to the designing and working out a deal for another 5 designs, I would have thought that for that much work throwing in the .psd's wouldn't have been a big deal.
Again, my
