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I’ve been working on client’s sites for a while and the majority of them want custom development. Having a UX/UI background this isn’t a problem for me but templates would for sure speed up the process. Do you usually use templates for clients and when you do, do disclose that you’re using a template?
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Bruh you definitely have like 50-100 templates
Do you really think they will go out and search every website to check if there’s the same design
Let’s say even if they do research, do you think they will really find the one designed by you
Just use template
Send them demo
And change accordingly to their desire
Mostly they will ask for the hero section or color pattern
Depends on their budget and timeline. If they want cheap and fast. Template. If they want true custom to their specs and requirements build it from scratch. For 99% of clients templates will be more than enough. Even if you just use it as a starting it point it saves you a ton of time and headaches.
Never had a client that wanted to ‘just use a template’.
The only thing to understand about templates is knowing how it’s made and the pitfalls. If you grab Themeforest templates know that there can be issues later on but if you grab a template from say the design library of Elementor, Divi, Kadence or whoever it’ll be easier to maintain . Clients don’t know what’s custom, I’ve seen some beautiful templates and some dull custom built sites. It’s really hard now to be totally unique
It really depends on the client . If its a straight forward website for a hairdresser or something like that i will defently use templates . I soley use breakdance for this .
If its a bigger projekt like the tour guide website i just build i will go all in with acf and custom code to make it excatly like the client wants
Yes built and sold hundreds of websites on Avada. Don’t listen to anyone who says otherwise, you can and should be charging upwards of $5k
I use my own boilerplate to save 2-3 hours of setup time. Includes all the plugins I use (Elementor, ACF, WP Rocket, Wordfence), some basic pages, Home, About, FAQ, Contact, Business Terms & Conditions. And most importantly for me all of the custom container templates I use to rapidly online a site, FAQ sections, Testimonial sections, About sections, Inverted sections, etc, all with my standard paddings for desktop/tablet/mobile, and a base styling of body text and headings to where all I need to do is swap out the font which best matches the business I’m creating for. Can get a simple brochure site up in like 5-6 hours. I created it all using wp-local and import to a new build via ftp.
The only templates I now use with a paying client is one of the ones that come with Kadence.
If I had a client who had a preference for Avada, I would do that; and I do have one client who insisted on Divi. But I would NEVER use a random Themeforest template on a paying client,