What are templates?
Recently, a potential client said to one of my sales reps, “that looks like a template.” What he probably meant is the site looked like a prefabricated website where they all look the same. Let’s clear something up. ALL websites start out with a template. There are several kinds of templates when it comes to website design. The definition of a Templae taken from Dictionary.com is below:
Computer Science
A document or file having a preset format, used as a starting point for a particular application so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is used
1. First and foremost, templates are usually created for Webmasters or “do it yourself” types. You can buy a template but then you need a program like Dreamweaver, Front Page, Adobe Go Live or others and some skill to FTP it to your hosting platform and make it all work. PAontheweb.com creates custom templates. We match your business colors, insert your logo and do other custom design work for your website template, business cards etc. All websites start with a template, either custom made or prefabricated.
2. Next is your search engine optimization. It is one thing to have a good looking website it is quite another to get it ranked with Google and other search engines. This is where 99% of all websites fail. Few Webmasters (so called) actually know what they are doing when it comes to getting your website found for the terms you want. That is one of our specialties.
3. There are prefabricated templates that you can get from places like Template Monster. These templates have two distinct prices.
a. A low price as anyone may have this template. That means 100 or more people may be using the same template as you.
b. A much higher exclusive price which means you pay 2 or 3 thousand and you are the only one that can have that design.
4. All websites start out with a Template. When we create a website for your company it is called a Custom Template. This Template is applied to most if not all pages of your website.
5. Our system allows you to purchase and display different templates at different times of the year. For example, you may purchase a website from us but want to decorate for the holidays like Christmas, Independence Day and many other holidays. In less than 2 seconds you can change the entire look of your website without disturbing the pages and the content already on your website!
We hope this helps you understand a bit more about templates.
