Tony,
It's outstanding that there is a great sense of humor within the ViArt chain, but my statement still stands. Advarntek(james@advarntek.co.uk) gave me the heads up about ViArt and explained how nice it was. I did the research, ran it by a measly 87 friends, and Advarntek's conclusion was on the money. I downloaded, installed and configured, and customized a little on the demo. I had some of my people check it out. ViArt is amazing and the CMS just makes configuration outstanding. We gave Viart 9/10 points. (There are small bugs and always room for improvement)
On to Templates? Here's where we were baffled:
1. Classic - Nice and simple. (1/1 rating)
2. Curved - For Crayola kids? (1/2 rating)
3. Default - Simple and informative. (2/3 rating)
4. Ecommerce - Feminine. (2/4 rating)
5. Fashion - Nice colors. Is that finished? (2/5 rating)
6. Marine - "Ooo... Tabs!" (2/6 rating)
7. Rainbow - Feminine. (2/7 rating)
8. Silver - It looks like the Classic. (2/8 rating)
HollyLand? (No offense HollyLand, this is the number one response I was given): "You mean we can spend $135 for a different colored CLASSIC Template with a pretty header? Can't we make that happen with Adobe Photoshop? Pass!"
So far, the best to rock would have to stand with Ibn Saeed's POWER template. It's extremely thought out and if Classic copies are worth $135, just that one template should run us around $385.00 plus (Granite, its finished with the quality of the pictures shown).
My opinion: It's still early, I'm still a new guy, and I like the product...