[UPHPU] html design templates

[jtaber]

Everyone else seems to have nice web pages but our html page designs are 
pretty ugly (probably due to a real lack of artistic talent).   I'm 
talking of things like nice menu tabs, buttons, gradient color 
schemes.   It's not like any of these can't be hand built, but building 
components like a shaded button image just consumes too much time.  I'm 
convinced there must be templates or design tools that every else is 
using or they have all spent lots of money to hire designers that can 
whip this stuff out.  Word Press has a  bunch of good looking templates 
to choose from - I guess that's what I'm thinking of.  Here's what I see 
as our options:
1) Download free source templates that we can just incorporate into our 
applications and on our site.  This would be cheapest, fastest, and 
easiest approach.  Is anyone else doing this ? 
2) Use a design tool that has a bunch of pre made stuff like buttons, 
menus, ....I guess Dreamweaver does this but since we are on linux that 
doesn't work.  Or is Dreamweaver that good that and we should go buy a 
Macbook to run it on ? (we have no desire to use Windows). 
3) Hire or outsource a designer - while this might deliver the most 
flexibility or original designs we don't want to spend that much. 

any thoughts?