Ok, haven't released a template in a while so...



PacificSunset is a Blue and Orange template for phpLD 3.2 with only one sponsored link required (no link to the designer required). Nice features include showing latest articles on the homepage as well as most popular categories in the sidebar.



Template: PacificSunset
phpLD Version: 3.2.0
Template Sponsor: phpLD Network
Live Demo: Business Plexus

Download this template: Look in the same place but on this page.

Special Notes: In order to show the featured links and most popular categories on the homepage of your directory you must replace the init.tpl with the one provided in the zip. Also, you may not remove the sponsored link (phpLD) from the template without paying for removal.

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The best thing that was happening to the directory scene was that templates were stopping getting released as they go too much to creating at the very least duplicate looking sites. What serious directory owner would want a template that someone else wants? Isn't this just a gimmick to entice the unsuspecting to go get your script?

-MGS-

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Are templates an enticement?
I would say absolutely! Just as they are an enticement for vBulletin or phpBB or Wordpress. In the end, a mature site becomes unique, but the path to uniqueness starts with learning from others first.

More often these days, people customize their template and site, and do not keep the default look of the template. But the template can be a great starting point for what they will do in the future, as they become a more mature site.

If you look at Directory Owners, couldn't it be said that your forum looks similar to others? Couldn't it also be said that you have matured over time with an increasing uniqueness?

The same is true with virtually any software someone installs, but it is good to have options when you are getting started.

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A yes or no would have been good enough! You maybe need to stop thinking you can use others as an example or at least if you do why not try and use examples that are likely to be unique. You aren't in the league of vbulletin or phbb, probs won't ever be as they are 'FORUM' scripts that will 99.9% of the time be 'UNIQUE' regardless. your a directory script David and are more susceptable to duplication than virtually any other software and that's a fact, as many of you script owners offer the ability to parse cat structures, use the same content such as alexa graphs and that, then combine that with duplicate templates, you can see where I'm going with this....

Sure you'll also understand this ain't a personal attack on you, if there were others doing what you do I'd tell them straight too. Thing is it does seem to the baby monster you made and the minions that follow it that are destroying the directory scene in front of our very eyes. Just an honest opinion, you need to either stop making free templates as enticement unless you put a warning sign on them first, or is it the case you don't give a stuff what happens as long as you make your money selling a copy? Sprat to catch a mackeral comes to mind on that one.

-MGS-



Bad example to give.

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Ok, point understood. I disagree, but I am off to some Christmas shopping. Take care, and have a good holiday.

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PHP Link Directory - start a directory and start making money
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Happy Holiday, I can't afford to go shopping, don't make as much as you.

Seriously, have a good un, be merry and don't get too drunk.

-MGS-

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