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Web Site Design By Using A Template
By: Colin Visser
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If you are
like may others on the internet, then you would like to have a
web site of your own. The problem is, you don't know how to
design a web site, and you can't afford to pay a web site
designer to design a new site for you. So how do you get around
this problem? Actually it is very easy - and as always there are
options! There are many talented web designers on the internet,
and they will allow you to purchase a web site design from them
for a very reasonable price. The designs available to you are as
varied as the people that made them. There is literally
something for everyone - a design for all tastes and all
purposes - just waiting for you to come along and use it. |
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These pre
written web sites are called web site templates, and some of
them are extremely well done. Web site templates are usually
created one of three ways - they are : Html, Adobe Photoshop and
Macromedia Flash. If you know how to edit html, a template can
be a quick and easy way to turn your ideas into a new web site.
I can already hear some of you saying "That's no good to me, I
can't write html!". That's ok! There is the photoshop style of
web site template that you can try. Do you have a digital
camera? Have you ever put a title on your photos? Have you
edited your pictures or made a collage out of them? (multiple
pictures joined into one..) If you have, then you can probably
make your own web site using Adobe Photoshop - or a similar
photo editing application. The photoshop templates do all the
initial design work for you, you just have to fill in the text
areas with whatever you want to say. It really isn't that hard
to do. The software will do most of the work, you just need the
'content' to fill in the provided spaces. Have a go at home
using your own digital photos, and when you have made a couple
of pages download a photoshop template and make a complete web
site. Of course you will need someone to host your new site, but
as most ISP's include a small 'home page' area with every
account, you can probably put your new site there to begin with.
The next type of web site template uses Macromedia Flash to
create it. Web site templates designed using Flash are usually
animated and can have some quite advanced visual effects. The
downside to using Flash templates is they are not really
intended for novice web designers - the Flash software is quite
complicated - but the results can be well worth the effort.
As a side
note, search engines have a very poor understanding of Flash web
sites, and if you want to create a commercial or business web
site, then you would be better off using html or photoshop for
your design.
The final
option for designing a web site by template is to find a
template that you like the look of, and have someone else turn
it into your web site. By purchasing a web site template you
will greatly reduce the cost of the design of you new web site -
and as a bonus, you will know from the start what it will look
like when it is finished :-)
When you use
a template to design a new web site please be aware that you are
not the only person on the web that is using that template.
There could be other web sites using the same design - but with
the enormous number of web sites on the internet it is unlikely
that you will ever find one of those sites. If you want to
guarantee that your web site is completely unique, then you need
to design it yourself, of you will have to get it designed just
for you. Good luck with your new web site!
Colin Visser
is the owner of webdziner.gotdns.com/ and also webdziner.biz/
Services : web site design & english proof reading. Proof
reading for web sites, software, help files, email and
news-letters. Free quotes. Please send comments using
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