Website Design using Templates
Website templates, Flash templates, WordPress Templates and other web design products are famous for being top quality solution for a quick, easy and affordable website production. The best part about website templates is the simplicity – you purchase the template package, give it to us and we customize it a little bit and upload it to either your hosting company or use ours. And there you have it – your website is up and running within as little as several hours from the moment you’ve been choosing a website template! So when choosing a Crowd-Pleaser Designs as your website design provider, you can always rest assured that you get a premium quality product along with a huge set of absolutely essential goods and services – delivered to you instantly.
Advantages of using templates:
- You know how your finished site looks. You can choose the template that appeals to you. You need not rely on a web developer to get a good looking website.
- Faster turnaround. You need not spend a lot of time on getting the colors and layout right. You can go straight to changing text and proceed with programming.
- Templates are much cheaper than hiring a web developer. There are several sites that offer free templates as well.
- Templates look much better than sites developed in traditional HTML programming. Templates are designed by professionals that are creative and competent and experienced.
- Templates can be customized by anyone with basic HTML knowledge. You can customize the template yourself using a text editor.
Disadvantages of using templates:
- You can get web templates for free or at a low-price. But these templates are not unique. Several people may have already bought or downloaded the template you have chosen. If you cant change the colors or layout a bit, your site looks like a clone of several sites. If you want a unique template design licensed only to you, you need to spend a fortune on it.
- Often, templates don’t look good if you stretch them a bit. For example, if there is space for 100 words in a block and if you try to insert 200 words in that space, the template layout may change. And this may not look good. This puts limitations on text you can place in a template based web page, thereby restricting you from optimizing text or being descriptive about your business. It is well known that the more verbose in a page the more attention it gets from search engines. A template doesn’t come with Meta tags. You need to insert these meta tags.
- Templates are good for static pages. If a site needs dynamic pages with a huge database to built, you need to opt for simpler templates.
- If you are doing customization for yourself, always work on a copy of the template files. Templates are often done with simple HTML. But if you try to edit HTML tags instead of text between them, you might end up with bad page layout.
- If there are template files with .tpl extension, locate the files where variables are defined. Then try to establish the logic behind the file system.
