Web templates

Web templates are the framework and look of the website. It’s like the packaging of a product. The buyer sees the company logo, product photo, its weight, nutritional content and price. Remember that the template to be used in your site will represent the company or your personality. A bland template may result into an impression that the company is likewise.

Advantages

    Timesaver
Having a template could save you lots of time. The design schedule is shortened because if you wish to make necessary changes, you don’t need to open each page to edit. The changes will be updated automatically. You can launch your site earlier than usual. This means the business is ahead of the schedule.

    Uniformity
Since your website follows a template, its look and feel is consistent. This is important because you like your site to look professional and visually pleasing. The continuity adds to the attractiveness of the site.

Promotes Good Website traffic
Having effective website traffic depends on how good the website design or template is. This is the core of your website. Your heart and time must be set on making the template almost perfect. Good website traffic equates to more business opportunities for your site.

There are three important factors to consider in creating a template

Reading content
The writing style of the text, its voice or emotion must be uniform. The continuity of the topics must be well and logical, otherwise, it might just leave your visitor baffled rather than informed.

Visual substance
The design must be simple and clean. It must not be loaded with lots of graphics or images which take forever to load. You web visitor might be impatient and just leave your page. The site must be attractive and be one with the website (e.g., if it’s a travel website, the feel must be fun and adventurous, not boring and plain) Colors must not be taken for granted. Colors help influence the emotion of the website visitor believe it or not. This is called the “Psychology of Colors”. Website fonts used must be easy to read or pleasing to the eye. The size should be just right. For text emphasis, you could underline, italicize the word just like in MS Word. It is advisable to use not more that 2 types of fonts.

Performance
As mentioned before, it is really advisable that the design must be simple for faster loading. A wide browser compatibility must also be taken into consideration. The link must work and not show an “under construction” sign. The sight of this will leave the visitor unsatisfied and greatly disappointed.

Website Template Essentials

Elements

Page layout, color scheme, navigation, graphics, fonts, style sheets and the logo

Codes, Formats

If you are a beginner, HTML format is easy to use. Nowadays, CSS is widely used than HTML and is more flexible. CSS has fewer amounts of codes therefore resulting to smaller file sizes.

Commonly used Website menus

Home page- This is the starting page of your site. Visitors first see this page. This is where you build an impression. It’s either you make it or break it in the visitor’s heart.
Contact us – This is where your contact details are shown, it’s usually an email address. You could also include your telephone number
Site map –This shows the list of the web pages you have. Visitors can go to the site map for easier navigation.
Resources or links – This section indicates the links to related sites and useful resources that visitors can select for further reading.

Sources

You could either hire a web designer or do it yourself. With a web designer, you won’t need to worry about crash courses in website making. Just tell the web designer your desired concept and let him to the work. This, however, is pricey and may take time to get done. The usual lead time in template making is 15 days. The second option is to get ready made layouts on the web at a cheaper price. You could just edit them to make it more suitable to your site. You would not want your website design to look canned and similar with another sight. You could do this by using software like Dreamweaver.

Now you have an idea on how to create a great website through templates. Practice what you have learned and surely, visitors would click on your site often.

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