Templates for Your Website

By Herb B. Lewis

In the early days of the web there were not many options to help you build a great website. You could either hire an expensive web designer to make the entire site for you or you could create the website yourself. Paying a webmaster can get expensive, in the old days creating a site yourself required you know HTML. Most people don't have time to learn to do this.

Many webmasters use a template to start your site and you can to. This is the golden age of the web and entrepreneurs have a lot more choices when it comes to creating a simple, professional website.

To find templates Google, "website templates" and several million pages selling templates will show up. Google, "free website templates" and several million pages with free templates will show up.

Most of the pages that come up in your search will show the designs on their site for you to preview before you download them. Select a template that you like that goes with what you sell, download it and then add your information. The HTML and design is done for you, all you have to do is tailor it to fit your needs.

The template will not be made with your photos and text; you have to add this yourself. Once you have the basic site on your hard drive, editing is simple. Editing involves adding your own logos, text and graphics to the template to make it yours.

Templates can be edited with a free HTML editor that is easy to download and install on your computer. When you buy a website template make sure it is compatible with your HTML editor. Search Google for, 'free HTML editor" and several will come up. They are very easy to download and install on your computer.

A website template is just the thing for starting an online business because it is not expensive and they can be simple to modify. You still have the option of having a webmaster edit the template for you. If you do this be sure to have all the text and graphics ready so they can just cut and past it into your template. Many of the template companies offer a custom design service at a reasonable price.

For less than fifty dollars you can buy a high quality website that can look better than a professionally designed site that will cost you much more. If you learn to modify the site yourself you have much better control. You can make changes when you want. Having to go through a web designer to make changes can be frustrating.

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