May 13 2008
The importance of a good website design
Having a website is something so common these days that you have to do something special to stand up in the crowd. A lot of website owners do not realize this thing and continue to use outdated or poor optimized designs. Because of Mozilla’s Firefox, the web standards are now so much more important. And now, if your site is not optimized to render properly on whatever web browser someone might be using you will loose a potential customer / subscriber. I must admit that I don’t even look at sites that don’t show properly in Firefox even if there is something there that I may be interested in. I just close them and forget about them. A good website design is a MUST have.
Another thing some webmasters don’t understand is that a change in the layout is also a must DO. People might get bored with your site and forget to stop by from time to time. I think that a change in the layout from time to time is good. Not too often though. You don’t want to give the wrong impression either.
The internet is full of good , quality web templates. Some can be bought with a price range from cheap to really expensive. Those expensive have the benefit that they will be unique and nobody will have it. If you will go with cheap web templates you might find it on another site but I don’t believe it will be a big problem. And of course , the free templates.
There are lot of free web templates portals out there. Just do a google search and you will be impressed. One particular site I stumbled across the internet is dreamtemplate [DOT] com. This site has taken a different approach to market their site. Their collection of web templates is extensive. And as a plus they also have a large number of Word, PowerPoint and Flash templates. And they have free templates too, about 300 of them. But you can also have access to the rest of them by paying a one time fee of $59.95. That way you will have unlimited access for one year.
With a well structured website and following the say idea of good designs I have no doubt that they will succeed in creating a great community. I have already downloaded a couple of their design to use on some of my outdated sites. And who knows maybe I will even buy a subscription.