Mistakes in Using Web Templates

Website templates are very helpful and they save you a lot of time and energy when you want to build a new website.  However, people sometimes do not know about their mistakes in the process of choosing and using a web template and end up with something that was unlike the image they had in mind. Here are some tips to help you avoid those mistakes.

• Be aware of is using a very popular  template. Your website must appear unique, so try to use template that are not used by so many people on the net. If you have to choose the same template and do not change anything in the template, your site will appear 'generic' instead of being unique.
• Do not template because they are pretty, but choose it because they serve your purpose. Choose a template that suits your audience. This is very important since the first visual impression appear on your site will be recorded on your audience's memory. 

A lot of free templates are available for various platforms such as wordpress template like the one on http://www.freewpthemes.net/ , blogger template :  http://www.bloggertemplatesfree.com/  or  html template : http://www.templatemonster.com/html-templates.php. Browse them, select carefully and develop them optimally.

Improve Usability of Your Website

Knowing the usability of your website will make your site functions optimally. Although the design is very excellent, but if it is hard to reach the content then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website :

•  make sure the typography of your content is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text. 
• Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to enable visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven database search engine or just a glossary or index of articles that you have, providing such a feature will make sure your visitors can use your site with ease. 
• Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Most internet users will leave a website if it doesn't load completely within 15 seconds, so make sure the crème de la crème of your website is delivered to the visitors as soon as possible to retain their attention. 
• Last of all, test each and every link on your site before it goes online. There is nothing more effective in tarnishing your professional image than broken links, so be very careful about that. 

How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way

• Find freelance designers who work from home. These people are often working from home so they do not have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it's a "no-brainer" choice. 
• Find free template from the web by searching through  google.com . Decide what platform you are going to use. Wordpress, blogger, static html, etc
• Get free images to decorate your web. Be careful with copyright. If you want to buy/order special images/illustration/photo, you can visit  FREE CLIPART
• Find freelancers online. The best way to do this would be to go to getfreelancer .  There, you can post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you will surely get the best deal. 
• Buy the ready-made website. Go to forum or search from Google to find websites for sale. 
• For professional help with negotiable price, visit GALLERY for images, and WEB MASTER

THE IMPORTANCE OF SITEMAP

A sitemap is needed to reach the SEO ranking faster . For visitors, sitemap would give a better info about the content of your site since it display  all content you have put in your site in one page in the form table of content.
1) Navigation purpose
A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site's theme
By looking at the site map, visitors don't need to waste their time to know your site's content by reading
through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.

3) Site optimization purposes
When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page -- they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

4) Organization and relevance
A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accesible and neatly organized for everyone. For this purpose you don't need to make your own sitemap for your site. There are so many free plug in to create sitemap in a very simple way for various platform (wordpress :  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/   or blogger : http://www.mintblogger.com/2009/01/30-blogger-widgets-and-plugins.html, even for static html page etc).  For more info, SITE MAP   . If you have problems, feel free to contact me.