Website Templates - Pros, Cons, Creating and Finding
Website templates are pre-designed web pages created for you to use as a basis for fast web development, saving you lots of time on website designing. You add your content text and pictures to the designs and you have a functional website, ready for upload. If you search the Internet for website templates, you will be amazed by how many different companies offer free templates and also sell templates.
There are many pros to using a template:
- Templates save time and energy. Many suggest what content to add and where.
- You have the basic design for each page of your website.
- Because the design is the same throughout, you have the consistency that will hold your site together.
- Updating your website is straightforward.
- Templates cut out the chance of destroying layout, because they usually have un-editable and editable regions.
There are, however, just as many cons to using templates:
- Many that are free on the Internet are database driven, so do not show up in search engines (for example, Tripod has many good looking templates, but all are database driven).
- You have little or no leeway in changing the pre-designed format.
- After looking at many of the templates offered, I found that very few offered a design that I would be proud to call my own.
- The better designs are used over and over again by many others, so your site is not unique