BoxedArt Reviewer's Comments

BoxedArt uses a fun, no pressure technique to hook its potential customers. Our “TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award” goes to a website that will make you feel like a kid with a big box of crayons.

BoxedArt offers over 1700 web template choices and dozens of website accessories like banners, buttons and backgrounds. $49 will buy you a membership or select individually priced items including various website templates, flash templates, flash intros, postcard templates and total identity kits.

We found BoxedArt's subscription services, which includes unlimited access to 40 different design categories to be most beneficial to web designers whom customize websites for resell. Although we found BoxedArt's added extras to be useful tools in website design the number of available templates still falls short of Template Monster.

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Template Selection:  

With a membership you can download nearly 2000 website or flash templates, many with multiple pages. They also offer Valid CSS, PHP Nuke, PowerPoint and full flash templates.

You can choose from a variety of themes suitable for personal or business use, including accounting and finance, dating and romance, construction and industry and IT and software.

If you can't find exactly what you are looking for BoxedArt can customize any template, whether you purchased the template from them or not. They also offer custom design services.

Feature Set:  

There are several ways to purchase from BoxedArt.com, you can sign up for a low-priced membership or purchase limited edition items, customized templates or custom designs.

Memberships are $49 a year and provide unlimited access to the member section downloads, which includes website and flash templates, total identity kits, full flash sites and Valid CSS and PHP Nuke templates. Additionally they offer accessories like flash intros, banner packs, interfaces, flash buttons, object images, simple 3D animations and more. For corporate identity and branding they offer logo templates, product box art and printable items like brochure, newsletter, CD cover, flyers and postcard templates.

The limited edition items are restricted to 15 downloads and are offered at a single download price or you can buy exclusive rights. For example, you can buy a full flash site with four pages and two versions for under $50 or excusive rights for under $1000. Members receive a 10 percent discount on limited edition items.

BoxedArt.com provides customized templates from two pages to six pages—HTML templates start at $175, Flash Header templates start at $300 and a Full Flash Site starts at $435. This is a useful service if you are not a designer yourself but know how you want your site to look.

If you are interested in a custom design you can contact their custom work team. Their custom team not only provides custom websites but also image, flash and logo development.

Ease of Use:  

BoxedArt website is bright and playful yet easy to navigate, through their home page you can log in and access all of their major features through easily identifiable icons and labels. Their website template search is available on every page and you can search by member/limited, product type, date posted and by keyword. You can narrow searches by exact phrase, broad match, match one word or match all words.

Almost all the templates can be modified using popular HTML editors and Photoshop, except Full Flash templates, which require Flash MX to modify.

Help/Support:  

BoxedArt doesn't offer online chat or telephone as contact methods; you can only contact them by submitting a support ticket. Although this method is inconvenient, they answered our inquiries within a day.

They host a searchable knowledge base, useful FAQs and tutorials. The tutorials cover various subjects ranging from changing color and text to altering flash files and publishing flash movies.

Summary:  

BoxedArt's reasonable membership fee teamed with their exclusive products and custom services make it one of the best website template services online.

Its energetic, colorful interface is easy to explore and the upbeat presentation helps you to remember, that website creation is an art and should be fun.