Web Design: The pros and cons of using Templates for your business website

The pros and cons of using Templates for your business website

Written by Terry Henry

You see them everywhere, generic templates! Just do a search on Google or Yahoo and see how many sites are selling them and more interestingly, selling repparttar

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pros and cons of using templates.

Pros 1. Fast development time, they usually contain everything you need minus repparttar 132277 content.

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3. Graphics editing can be done in a photo editor like Photoshop.

4. They have a clean, uniform look. Keep in mind these templates have been designed by professionals and attention to detail is very good, if not excellent.

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The 8 Most Important Website Design Principles

Written by Brian Basson

Building an Innovative and Effective Website, by making full use of available technologies, is crucial for repparttar

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1. Do-it-yourself OR outsourcing ?

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2. Dynamic vs. Static web pages

Do you want your site to be static, i.e.. no input from visitors, or dynamic, i.e.. fully interactive, with visitors being able to log on, take part in forums, post information, etc ? Many new and fantastic scripting languages are available to make your site more dynamic and bring it to life.

3. Web Site Title vs. Domain

Before registering a domain for your site, take some time to think of related words or names that best describes your business. Compile a few possibilities and then check for availability on repparttar 132286 internet. The best ones would normally already be "taken", but innovative thinking can get you very far !! When compiling you main page, use this domain name and extend it to your website's main page title tag. This is step 1 in getting future good search engine rankings.

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When building repparttar 132287 content part of your site, remember to include a fair dose of important keywords and phrases that best describe your business. These keywords, repparttar 132288 words and phrases people use when searching for relevant information on repparttar 132289 internet, should also be extended to all repparttar 132290 important tags of every web page of your site. Be careful though not to overdo it, as search engines penalize "keyword stuffing". Also use full sentences and make them sound natural. The clever search engine algorithms have recently just become even more advanced, and can now track unnaturally sounding sentences !

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