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One of the best kept secrets in web design is the utilization of templates.
For folks that want to get their web site up and running as quickly as possible, utilizing a template might be the right option for you. The benefits of using a template include:
- Rapid time to develop and deploy
- Inexpensive alternative to custom design
- Dozens of professional base designs to choose from
- Can customize the look and feel so that it becomes your own design
(don't have to use the out-of-the-box version of the template)
- Shortens the time to market
- Lets you focus on the content and functionality of your web site
How it Works
First of all, you select a basic template that is close to what you would
like your web site to look like. We can then customize the look and feel
for you, including adding unique images, designing the section header
buttons to match your site map, etc.
Click here for an assortment of some free web site templates that you may choose from, or you may find your own online by performing a search on Google.
If you start with a free template, your only costs would be in customization
and in building the actual web pages, or if you are comfortable with Photoshop and basic html, you can choose to do-it-yourself.
The Fastest Route
If you select a free web site template and would simply like it applied
to your site, you can save 50-75% of the cost of custom development. The
only time required on the developer's side would be to build your site's
buttons and section titles in Photoshop, and then to build the actual
site pages using the template.
Customization
You can also take a canned template as the starting point, then have it customized to give it a whole new look and feel for your site. Customizing a template in this way saves time on the initial comp development, and can significantly cut the time to deployment.
Unique Designs
At Yalia Technology Design, we have developed a number of unique template designs in-house. The advantage to using one of these templates is that they were intentionally built to be easy to customize for your web site, thus saving even more time on the development and deployment to your site. They allow you a full range of color options to choose from, since most of the colors are embedded in the html, instead of in the graphic layer, and many of our web site templates below can be set up for your site in less than a day.
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