One of my blog sponsors gave me the opportunity to write an unbiased review about DreamTemplate.com. You’ll have to forgive me for my lack of ‘reviewing’ experience, because I don’t do these very often.

Overview:

DreamTemplate.com is a service that offers thousands of “exclusive premium web content solutions” for webmasters that are created by professional artists and design experts, with a focus of delivering top-quality website templates without the hefty pricing of hiring a programmer/designer.

First Impression:

The layout of the site itself is very clean and organized, and the extensive template category list shows in detail what kinds of templates are offered, unlike other template services that make you guess and use a nasty search box only to not find what you’re looking for.  The design of the site, however, could be a little more creative considering the impressive level of design and artisic-ness shown in the templates they produce.

The Templates:

A lot of design sites resell templates from other services, so you tend to see the same templates on dozens of distributor sites all taking credit for them.  I’ve seen a lot of template sites, but so far how not seen any repeats on DreamTemplate.com…this leads me to the impression that their templates are truly original, which in my opinion makes their service more reliable.  What I also found interesting is that while there are a few similarities between the different templates, they are all unique in their design and no two look entirely alike.

The service:

At the time of my writing, they offer over 300 FREE templates and well over a few thousand paid website templates starting at under $60.  Considering what you’d normally expect from free or cheap templates, I’m surprised they aren’t charging more for them.  Their info page claims that the designers spend up to 15 hours (or more) on the design, so you’re definitely getting a deal.  Subscriptions are also available for users to have access to thousands of templates without paying for each individually.

Negatives:

I don’t really see many pitfalls, but one thing I didn’t see is an emphases on support.  You assume responsibility for downloading pre-made website templates, but one thing I would like to see is a maintenance or customization service for inexperienced users to be able to pay to have the template customized to their website, including the addition of content, graphics, etc.  They may already offer this service but I didn’t see it mentioned on the site, so if it’s available it needs to be made a little more obvious.