Build
websites easier with premade templates
To
most people the process of building a web site remains somewhat of a mystery.
This confusion probably stems from the fact that there is a cornucopia of web
sites on the Internet. Even with wide variety of sites, every single one can be
divided into two sections: front-end and back-end.
The front-end is
the first thing that it is designed. It encompasses the look and feel of a web
site. This is probably the most established part of the web site production process.
Design has been around since Guttenberg printed his first bible. Much of what
has been used in print media (especially art magazines) has transferred to the
web.
Most well thought out web sites start off with sketches on paper. We like
using the big huge box of crayons, the one with the crayon sharpener built in.
Most of the colors in the "big box" are pleasing to the eye and are web friendly.
If you use begin paying attention to sites you'll notice that only a few colors
are actually used, 256 to be exact. Only about 100 of those won't give you a headache
when you look at them. On request we will give these early designs to a client
that wants to control the look and feel of their site. The site, of course, never
ends up looking like the early designs. The same idea and concept is there but
because of restrictions colors and whole images are lost.
This brings us to
the next part of the front-end, the actual site creation. This is what many people
view as the most important, which is what separates a professional looking site
from an amateur one.
The images are created using products from across the
board. Mainly, designers stick to industry standards like Photoshop and Illustrator.
After getting the basic image in terms of proportions and size the designer should
create the static HTML page.
This is the basic page you would see if you viewed
the page source. This is one of the most rewarding, most hated and most tedious
part of the web design process. Each browser displays a page differently. Since
most users either use Internet Explorer 4+ or Netscape 4.
5 we cater to those
two. Sometimes we build a different site for each, trying to maintain the same
layout.
That concludes the front-end section. Personal sites and some small
business sites stop here. While this maybe acceptable today, tomorrow any web
site hoping to attract and keep visitors is going to have a strong back-end.
There
are many sites and website designers that offer premade templates, these have
the entire graphical layout that a page needs. For those with little or no experience
with website design software, templates have quickly become a practical solution
to professional website design. Most of the top end sites offer a huge selection
of very impressive, easy-to-edit website templates. All you have to do is check
your email containing the link to download the .zip file. The html in these templates
is compatible with Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage.
The major advantage is the price, they run anywhere from $20 to $70. Another great
advantage is you don't have to hire a web designer, who usually takes 1 to 2 weeks
to produce a page of such high quality. Webmasters, either novice or expert, can
easily save thousands of dollars on design fees by using website templates. There
are also some exception sites, such as http://www.web-site-templates.org
that provide packages of templates at one price
,
instead of providing a different price for each template.
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