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Why Website Templates is a money saver?


by Monica Biel

Website Templates can be a life saver if you are just starting out in the world -wide -web. Templates can save you big money and time. It is common knowledge that “design houses” charge a minimum of 1k for a complete website filled with images and text. Again, this is the minimum they would charge and I would estimate that the average price of a website you will pay is approximately 2-3k. Why are you paying this much for a website?

Lots of people make a lot of mistakes while choosing web templates. The most common mistake web masters make while selecting a web template for web designing is picking up the common templates of the lot. If you pick a common web template, your website will not look any different from the rest of the pool of websites. In order to make a difference with your website, and to look unique amongst the rest, it is important that you select a different web template from the rest so that you stand out from the crowd.

In order to save useful time people tend to avoid web designing for web templates, and this is the reason why they tend to adopt ready to use web templates. It is good to give your website a unique touch, but make sure that you do not spend a lot of time in making changes. This will take equal time as web designing, and the whole purpose of saving time and effort will be lost. Therefore, make sure that you utilize the least of your time in making these changes yet keeping your website unique.

In the past, hiring a professional web designer is a must for online businesses. An inexperience web designer could very well do your business more harm than good due to messy and sloppy representation of your company. But today, due to the availability of web templates that allow you to design a website which is at par with professionally done website in terms of its design and structure, more businesses are going online.

So the question, where can you find affordable website templates? Dreamlinestudio.com is the ticket if you’re looking for something that can create a high-impact impression and not break your bank account. Website templates also have the ability to be modified to your liking, so after you change out the graphics, color scheme or move around the navigation you essentially have your own creation.

There is absolutely room for both in this vast universe we call the web, and both options have its strengths and weakness. The bottom line is cost. Do you have a few grand to spend on a website? If you don’t, a quality template will probably be your best bet. For approximately $100, you can purchase a very nice template and spend the rest on marketing and promotion. With the vast amount of money you will be saving, you can hire somebody to modify your template the way you want it for perhaps $300. I don’t believe in cheap recycled templates, but I do recommend looking into high quality templates that can present you the way you should be presented. You truly have one shot to make a great impression, don’t ruin it with a cheap overproduced template.

The real reason for this article is a recent beef with several “design houses” over charging the average person looking for a nice website. I know people have to make money running a business, but there is something wrong about producing a bill that is thousands over what a website is worth. There will be talk about what a website is truly worth but I have been in the design business for several years and have worked in a corporate environment. I have personally seen where we would charge 10 times what a website truly cost as far as manpower hours, and it made me sick to see that.

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Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Computers & Technology

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