1. What you see is what you get. With a readymade website template, you don’t have to imagine what the finished product will look like, whether the web developer you’ve chosen has understood your requirements, whether your website will have to go through several changes and iterations before you’re satisfied with the end-product. The website template can be customized to your requirements by changing the colors, pictures and text so that it ends up looking quite different from the original.

2. Speed. Time is money. Your website will be up-and-running within a fraction of the time it takes to develop a custom website – provided, of course, that you have the content and the pictures ready to customize your website template to suit you. A custom-designed website can take months to develop, depending on its complexity. Compare that time-frame to the few days or even hours for a website template to become a full-fledged website.

Despite all the very real advantages of website templates, you should pause and consider some of the disadvantages.  For example, how easy is it to customize the template to your requirements?  Do you have the skills or the software to do it yourself?

1. Not exclusive and unique.
   Website templates are downloaded and used by many hundreds of users.  So they are not exclusive and unique to your own company. You may end up with a website that is a clone of many others. If you want to ensure that no-one else buys the same website template, you will have to pay many times the price.  Besides, the same template may have been used by customers who downloaded it before you got there.   You may need to custom-design your website if you want a design exclusive to your company or for your personal use.

Tips and tricks on effective web design

The Number 1 rule that every web designer should follow is to create a fast loading web site. You might have a great design but very few people are going to see it if it takes a long time to load. While designing a web site always think about how long it will take to load. Try out our tips to build a great looking web site that also loads fast.

1. Minimize the use of images – The key to a fast loading web site is to minimize the use of images. Images do enhance a page but don’t make 80% of your web site only images. Instead break it down as much as possible to simple HTML. Notice the popular sites like Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Amazon etc., they have very few images because the load time is more important. Very often simple designs are the best.