I think almost anyone has a website these days, have it be a wordpress type site for personal blogs, or a more professional site for your business. When I'm doing a personal website I don't really care all that much about the template that I use. But if it's going to be a business website and I want it to look professional and impressive, I will almost always spend a certain amount of money and a certain amount of time searching for the perfect template. I'm not talking about Myspace layouts, I'm talking about professionally done templates. Free templates just don't have the same feel as a paid template.

So where can you get these templates from? Well just about anywhere depending on the type of template you want. There are different sites that offer different ones. Maybe you want a simple template design but you want a flash intro, or maybe you want a photography type template to show off all your photos, or maybe you want a regular template that just has a professional feel to it. You can have all this and more. Usually the sites that offer quality templates don't charge per template. You as the buyer will buy a membership. And with this membership you can either receive "credits" to download templates or with your membership you receive templates with other things such as flash buttons, photos, backgrounds, logo templates, etc. Obviously a paid membership is the way to go. Even if its $40 or $50 you get all these extras included, so it's well worth it in the end.

Since most of these sites have designers working on them, they also offer something called "Customized Design Solutions" or "Customized Web Templates." These are a little more expensive but, they give you all kinds of customization choices that maybe you wouldn't get with the other templates on the site. In case you were wondering, here are a few customized options that you can choose for your template:

- Change the templates colors

- Change the templates background

- Replace the original logo with one you supply (this is really great if you have an official logo for your business!)

- Rearranging the content on your template

- Customizing the navigation menu or bar

The prices for this service as said above are a little bit more. But again you're getting full on customized work, and if you don't know how to do something like this yourself, this is a great way to get it done quickly. I know when I bought my flash photography template, I had no idea what I was doing! Maybe if it was regular html I could have figured something out, but flash? Forget it. So I left it to the professionals and now my site is absolutely incredibly!