Posted by MajorSetback on 11/04/62 11:37

Rastus wrote:
> Spend 80 dollars and get a proffessionally designed template if you can find
> one to suit your needs.
>
> Yes - we all know that webmasters are meant to make their own web pages,
> only use notepad, only eat jolt and pizza and masturbate nightly with
> cheesegraters etc, but it is just irresistably cost effective to use off the
> shelf.
>
> I tend to use project 7 templates simply because it would cost me waaaay
> more than the template cost to do it myself. You only get so much time in a
> day and some tasks pay better dividends than others.

Your time-is-money argument is a good one. However, there have also
been cases in the past where I lost a tremendous amount of time because
my boss was so anxious that I not redesign the wheel that I ended up
disassembling someone else's wheel, figuring out what logic was behind
their design, trying to work around flaws in their design and
eventually coming up with something almost as good as the wheel I could
have designed and built in a fraction of the time.

OK, a commercial package is probably not like that and I may end up
buying a package should taking the free way end up being the costly way
after all.

Thanks very much for your input,
Peter.

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