Illusion Technologies: Web Site Design

Web Site Design By Using A Template.
By Colin Visser

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.

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!

About the Author: Colin Visser is the owner of
http://webdziner.biz which has Web Templates | Free Software |
SEO Software | Scripts and Free Hit Counters for your web site.

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