How To Set Up Website Using Web Templates

Web templates provide ready-made codes that you can customize with ease. Now, you can forget about hiring a web designer that can cost you more or less a $100 per design. You can save a lot of money, plus you can give your creative juice some needed exercise.

New Web 2.0 Website Template Wave

With the popularity of one-click web publishing, the Internet has never been the same. Even individuals who lack technical background can make professional-looking web pages in no time. Thanks to web templates, you can forget about the hard part of web designing.

Cost of Web Site Templates

It's a good thing that you can get simple web templates for free on the Internet. Paid templates can also be very helpful and you can get awesome templates at just around $25-$75.

Choosing Web Templates

Remember these three things in mind, when you arelooking for web templates:

1. What is your website for?

2. Who are your would-be visitors?

3. What do you want to project?

Personal Website Templates

If your website is for your personal page, then anything goes. The only thing to consider is if your website is a mirror of you, it is YOUR site anyway. Adding your personal style to your site would simply do the trick.

Business Website Templates

Business web templates are more specific in themes. You can find that more popular categories are: real estate, e-commerce, hosting, directories, health, sport. Such templates have related graphics to those businesses and may be the best quick solution for start up company.

Web Hosting Providers And Website Templates

After you select template you have to find hosting where to place your website. These days many hosting companies offering cheap hosting and free web site templates. All this included in their package. You just need to read their descriptions. They also provide software which you can use to edit website templates in the way you like.

SEO And Website Templates

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is a technique to optimize your website pages to be better understand by search engines. When you set up templates for your website make sure that all required meta tags are included and you follow at least basic requirements. This will help your web template site be more visible for search engine and as result more people can find you.

Types of Web Site Templates

There are two basic types of web site templates - Html or Flash. Html templates are simple and static but they are very efficient because they can make fast loading pages compared to flash templates. Usually business websites use html templates. Flash templates allow you to use some moving graphics or even animation in your web page. These kinds of templates can really make your website exciting.

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About the Author: Petrok Devochkin is Internet marketing expert who writes for various companies including LogicTechnologies.net (web site templates design company).

Web Templates: Replacing Designers?

by: William T. "Chip" Lane

I’ve seen articles (and websites) that suggest you can buy a website template and skip the expense of hiring a professional website designer. Recently, I read several testimonials from the very satisfied customers of a website template vendor that mentioned how quickly they were able to get their sites done. The template vendor commented that he/she had known people to complete their websites in around two hours.

With experiences and statements like these, it not surprising that more and more people are attempting to build websites themselves. I think that’s great in a way. For those of us who are concerned about the trends in the web industry and community, it’s great to see more people becoming web oriented and involved.

However, I think there is a misunderstanding by many of these people about what a website template really is – and is not. At this point, I think it only fair that I should mention that I am a professional website designer (the person you supposedly don’t need anymore). I should also mention that this is not my sole motivation for questioning this idea of templates replacing web designers. As a matter of fact, I think website templates are extremely useful. I recommend using them to my clients as a way of getting a great graphical look for their site. What I hope to convey is that template consumers need to know what they are and what they aren’t getting with a template.

Consider an analogy for templates: pretty boxes for very important gifts. If you buy a pretty box, and put all the right stuff inside it – won’t everybody want to open the box and use the contents? Doing it yourself will save time and money – so why not? Sounds good, and the people who wrote those testimonials would certainly think it was a good idea – right?

But let’s consider the contents of the box. Aren’t you the best possible source for information about your company, organization, product or service? Of course you are! So the content of your box is bound to be great – right? Well – yes and no. Good web designers know that their clients are the best sources for the information that needs to be presented on their websites. However, they recognize that not everyone can organize that information in the optimal way for inclusion in a web page. If the contents in the box are wonderful, but jumbled, or hard to get out of the box, people may not like the box (or worse yet – the owner of the box). Just as a badly considered gift (even a beautifully wrapped one) may offend someone, a poorly organized site can actually harm your efforts.

Take the analogy a bit further. Assume that all concerns about the content are dealt with: it’s perfectly organized and you’ve got a knack for writing copy that would make most professional journalists green with envy! Voila: great looking presentation, content and organization! Now you’ve got it made – or do you? Where is the box? Your audience needs to find this incredible box before they can open it.

A website template, no matter how beautifully designed or filled, is a box in the middle of a desert. Without adding content and description meta tags, titles, alternate content, proper use of text links and alternate navigation and registering the site with search engines, directories and obtaining useful links (to name but a few of the technical considerations), your pretty box may remain in the middle of that desert. It does no good for anyone if it isn’t findable on the web.

A website template is a pretty box. Pretty boxes make a difference or we wouldn’t all spend so much time wrapping all the gifts we give. Some people make their own boxes and wrapping paper – and that’s really great. But most of us buy mass-produced boxes and wrapping paper. It saves time and money. So do templates. But none of us would assume that boxes or wrapping paper would make up for a poor gift. Website templates make sense if they are kept in perspective as a specialization of labor in the production of websites. They are not however, a substitute for the experience, knowledge and judgment of professionals who have a vested interest in your success.

About The Author

Chip Lane is the owner of Lane Web Design (http://www.lanewebdesign.com) a full-service web design and consulting firm located in Mebane, North Carolina.
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