How to choose proper web templates
October 30th, 2007Finding the most proper web templates is not an easy choice. There are hundreds of templates providers over world wide web. Most of them give you a choice of almost ten thousand templates suitable for every business or personal niche. In the next paragraphs of this article we will try to cover all aspects of finding the most suitable article for you and explain some unwritten laws that web design company „gurus“ used.
1.Visual impression.
Visual impression is the first think that people will find in your website. It depends what kind of feeling you try to present to your client. For business template most companies select dark colors and pure black and white template. It is well known fact that every eye is seeing different things. We at webpagetempate.ws suggest looking more deep in the template:
What your company/yourself is trying to present?
Does your company/personal logo can fit the layout?
How layout will fit to your text content?
Do you need animation or automation?
This is the first step and may be the most difficult, as ancient Chinese have said: „Every pat from 1000 steps start with first one“. Our advice is to do not try to take the first step very quick. What we can advice you to make your decision easy without going in technical terms:
Look in all categories for templates ( no matter what you choose business or personal template), sometimes there are very good personal templates that can fit your business.
Never choose because music/sounds. There are wide variety of music and sounds usually in templates that use Flash animation. Your decision must come from different point, not everybody link music that you like.
Professional template is always better than free template. Your website is your online face, you’d better pay a small amount of money and visitors to see beautiful face than free one.
2.Does it fit you site’s requirements ?
This is more technical question. Let we start this topic little more far. Usually clients choose templates with first point of our article: „Visual impression“, but nowadays most website owners use CMS (content managements system) or a kind of script usually PHP or ASP which helps for easy maintain even to a person without IT skills. If your previous website need an update and new look you must be sure which CMS or Script is using and protect yourself from mistake. Usually our clients search for phpbb, osCommerce, Wordpress, ets, which are few of most popular worldwide.
From other point again it comes your content – text, images, shopping carts and so on. It is possible your text to do not fit the layout, it is like to pour out 5 litre in 1 litre bottle. And again the question of space. What will happened if you want your website to „grow“. Always expect few additional links and categories in your website. Look at the menu navigation – top , left or right. If you have 10 categories and template have only 5 button ? We can’t cover all things regarding requirements, but you can, because you know best your business.
3.Final decision
Before you make final decision it becomes little tricky. There is another aspect for websites – how SEO friendly it is? For sure you will need expert advice. One of the best companies that make free analysis is powerscribe.com from UK Midlands. They have huge design and SEO portfolio and their expert team will aways be happy to give you professional advice free of charge.
We would like to give you additional advice. Better buy professional template and pay price for „unique one“. What does it mean? When you buy a template from quality template provider like webpagetemplate.ws you can pay the price for unique one and nobody other can use your template. The price is higher, but it is reasonable.
Thing to remember:
Visual impression, no music, and professional advice. Always buy templates, never use free templates if you want to make serious impression to visitors.
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