Template Selection:  

DesignLoad offers 1000s of templates to choose from including templates with flash, flash website templates, Photoshop designs and website interfaces and navigators. The standard membership also supports accessory downloads such as flash and Photoshop buttons, flash intros, banner sets, pixel icons, arrows, windows, backgrounds and more.

They offer a wide variety of themes that include everything from agriculture to law to travel. However, they offer few multipage sites and their designs seems a bit dated, but it wouldn’t be to difficult to download a simple one and alter it quickly to suite you or your clients needs rather quickly.

Feature Set:  

DesignLoad is a subscription based service with two packages available, standard and premium. The standard subscription is less than $50/year and allows unlimited downloads from 28 categories. This includes web templates as well as Flash intros, banner sets, Outlook stationary, PowerPoint templates, Flash animations, mouse effects, 3D characters and more. With the templates and accessories you can quickly and easily create unique websites.

For about $100 a year you could join the premium package and download from 44 categories. The categories included with this package are comprised of everything offered in the standard plus full packages (templates with corporate logo items), corporate identity packages, Photoshop and PowerPoint designs with logos as well as PHP Nuke, portal, OS Commerce and menu templates.

Besides templates DesignLoad offers a good collection of corporate items including postcards, stationary, print layout and brochure templates, logo designs, CD covers and business cards with logos.

Their templates are compatible with several editors including Dreamweaver, Frontpage and Homesite, graphics can be modified with Adobe Photoshop and flash products can be edited with Macromedia Flash MX.

Ease of Use:  

DesignLoad's site is easy to navigate through and you can quickly search through their templates. Their home page displays their product categories divided into standard and premium products, after you select a product category you can search by theme. However, it would be nice if you could also sort search results by color and style, but you can search by keyword.

Help/Support:  

DesignLoad's customer support includes the standards like email and FAQ. Many of our questions were answered on the FAQ page and our emails were responded to within a day. They also post announcements and updates and they publish a newsletter.

DesignLoad offers a decent collection of standard and flash templates and offers quite a few extras for a very low price, which could be appealing to designers, they even offer other useful products like PowerPoint templates for quick and easy presentation creation. With a standard membership you can design as many websites as you want for the price of one template page and when they say unlimited downloads they mean it, so they offer a pretty good deal.