Which makes no sense to me. The really hard and time consuming stuff is the backend. So why not do the frontend (the design) properly as well? It wouldn't take much time or effort really.. just hire a web designer on elance or wickedfire and they'll have it done in a 1-2 weeks or less. Especially if they start out using the already existing template, which would make it even easier to customize as they don't have to start from scratch.