| When building your web site, one of the main concern | | | | text and images. |
| is the design of the web site layout. Templates are not | | | | However unless you are an experienced web |
| the best choice for every business. However for small | | | | developer, you will often find templates you |
| business or Internet start ups who have a low budget | | | | downloaded from these template websites hard to |
| and no in house professional web designer, a website | | | | edit. All programmers and web developers know it is |
| template may be a suitable choice. | | | | often harder to learn another programmer's code than |
| Many websites on the Internet are offering web | | | | building new code. And often a website template |
| templates and flash templates for download, | | | | which looks great in preview mode contains code |
| sometimes even for free. | | | | from multiple source with different coding style, makes |
| Search for keywords such as 'web site template' or | | | | it even harder to understand and edit. |
| 'flash template' on Google will return thousands of | | | | If you try to contact the template website you bought |
| search results. There are templates for a wide range | | | | the template from, you will find many of them not able |
| of business types: from flower shop to law firms. | | | | to help you with your required template customization. |
| Depending on the category you may find hundreds of | | | | As you might notice, there are hundreds of web sites |
| different web template for you to choose from. | | | | offering exactly the same set of web templates -- as |
| Web templates is indeed a more affordable option | | | | they are just affiliate websites reselling websites |
| than hiring a web designer to build website from | | | | templates and flash templates from a third party |
| scratch. Even experienced web designers sometimes | | | | template provider. Therefore many template websites |
| use web template as a base to create websites for | | | | are just interested in selling more templates rather than |
| their clients, or browsing through template websites to | | | | doing any customization work, or might just redirect |
| get ideas for a web design project. They often use a | | | | you to an expensive template update service so that |
| web site template as the foundation for a web site | | | | they can collection commissions by referring you. They |
| design. For example, use the main layout design of the | | | | are mostly just 'Internet marketers', rather than web |
| template, but change all the logos, menu bar, titles, | | | | developers. |
| graphics and color scheme so to make the page | | | | Web site templates are good starting point and can |
| design personalized. | | | | help you to save time and costs, but template |
| A purchased template must be edited in order to fill in | | | | customization is often not as easy as it seems. So |
| your own content, images, logo, contact information, | | | | what should you do with the web template you have |
| etc. Custom flash or HTML coding should also be done | | | | just purchased? You might not have the software to |
| in order to make the template truly match the theme | | | | perform template modifications, or you have the |
| of your website. Many of the web templates you | | | | software but not the time or skill. |
| found on different sites might look similar to a certain | | | | A growing trend of many business is to use the |
| point, and are often overwhelmingly corporate feel. | | | | Internet to outsource their template customization |
| Also remember you are not the only custom who | | | | project, so to custom flash or HTML template |
| purchase the web template unless you buy an | | | | inexpensively with fast turnaround time. Flash and |
| exclusive license of the template (costs thousands!). | | | | HTML experts online can help you to personalize any |
| And even if you do, prior to your purchase other | | | | template base on your requirements. You can even |
| customers might have already purchased that web | | | | request an exclusive designed template to be |
| template and have used it. This might not be a great | | | | developed with the design elements you found on |
| problem for a personal home page. But many | | | | templates from different websites, without having to |
| corporate or serious Internet business websites would | | | | buy those template individually. |
| need template customization beyond just replacing | | | | |