Is this WordPress Design Worth $80 ?

To be completely honest, it's possibly the ugliest Wordpress site I've ever seen. Definitely get a refund and next time make the person show you before paying. It doesn't take much for someone to throw some examples on a site and let you see beforehand, ask what you want changed and tweak it from there.
 
As many others have stated above the "design" is plain horrible. If you want a theme for wordpress and you don't want to pay someone dozens of dollars (or even hundreds) you can always go for extremely good quality stock themes like the ones from themeforest.net. I personally buy all my templates there.

Also if you pay someone to make you a design for your WP site and he/she charges you something like 100 or 150$ it's most likely a template. Many people think that they are getting a unique design but professional unique web design might cost at least 1000$ and it's still cheap.. So my advice is to buy the templates yourself and maybe hire someone to customize them for you. At least you know that you're not scammed :)
 
I won't say if that worth $80 or not but this is simple design, you could save yourself some money by finding a free wordpress template and just hire designer to make the header.
 
Once again I am convinced that the site design better to do yourself, changing one of the free themes.
 
Simple and effective design. But I mostly do it for a lot cheaper ($10-$30) including a header and a logo, favicon, sidebar design and lots of plugin installation that will boost your SERPs.
 
All i can say that this is not worth $80..it looks like a free wordpress theme..
 
Too expensive for what It looks like in my opinion. You can find better themes for wordpress, free or paid ;)
 
Horrible!

Download a copy of Headway from the DL section and design your own header.

You could even upload your own header image to the twenty-ten theme that installs with WP and have a better theme than this!

Here is a website I build using the twenty-ten theme and I am no designer!

Code:
www. wedding fireworks .org
 
Simple and effective design. But I mostly do it for a lot cheaper ($10-$30) including a header and a logo, favicon, sidebar design and lots of plugin installation that will boost your SERPs.

Got any samples of your designs?

Dane
 
The design is very bad. Even the free templates are better than this. Please ask the designer to re-design it.
 
$80 for these type of design very costly. unfortunately very bad design i have ever seen. please redesign the website.
 
the thing is if you had bought a premium theme, you could have used that for your entire network of sites. You could ask someone to just choose a color palette and update the designs for various sites. I bet that will cost you little. I recommend the genesis framework and education theme.
 
Looks shity for me, i think you can make theme like this less then in 20 minutes. On Bhw lot of premium themes shared, so take one and customize it, make it looks unique and thats all. I mean in past when i was doing freelance, i was making website design for 100$, but i always bring 3 three variants to choose from.
 
Lol , the 80 should pay to those designer on Themeforest will surely make it better in the result
 
Honestly...I think it is worth $80. Do you have any idea how long design and development take and the level of knowledge you have to have in order to code?
For example, I charge $50 per hour, that would mean that in order for me to create something for $80, that gives me only about 1 1/2 hours to design + development + error test - in which a small design would take at least 8-12 hours.

In the web industry, you really do get what you pay for. If you paid someone $8 per hour to do that site for you, not only were they worth the money but I am surprised that they could even finish the project.

Imagine someone saying to you.. "I want my site on page #1 for $80". The time involved is obviously much more than a mere $80. The same principle works here. If you want a good design, hire and PAY and good designer. Every man is worth and should be paid for the level of work they bring to the table.

By the way...if you can get a website for under $300, RUN! They are either sending you a template, are new, or just aren't good. Any good designer/developer will have constant business and isn't afraid to turn down your work if you don't meet their rate requirements.

(if you need it fixed, let me know)
 
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By the way....your website is a Free WordPress theme:

wordpress*org/extend/themes/wp-portaltheme
 
PS: I've filed a paypal dispute to prevent him for withdrawing, just in case.

Really not the best way to handle things. If you want a refund, request that from the seller and give him/her time to work things out with you.

That is just good business in general as people should talk things out before involving a chargeback.

He could easily win saying it is a digital product too but that is not my point.
 
doesn't really quite look professional or fit the topic that well with its images
 
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