How To Fix Your Sucky Website With Minimal Effort
We do not have en excuse for having a sucky website anymore. There are so many resources on the internet that anyone can have a decent looking website with a little work. Some people have a natural gift for creating a wicked website – while someone may be a very strong coder without an artistic gene in their body. With a little planning - anyone can have a website they can be proud of – or at least not embarrassed with anymore.
A site like this one would be a good place to start to get the feel of how to use a template before experimenting with a more complex css templates like the ones found here. Swapping around your look & feel gets easier once you get used to how CSS and xhtml are laid out. You’ll soon find that most of the templates start to look alike other than color choices, graphic style and flavor (size of object/text/etc…).
The template resources are virtually endless. This google search produced over 500,000 pages of free css templates sites. Like anything else, just because it’s free doesn’t mean it is good or ‘what you should use’. So if you have any choice dilema’s while browsing templates, remember to try to pick simple to start with until you get used to the designers layout style.
If you have a good design, but need to spruce it up a little, there are a lot of resources on the web for creating cutting edge menu navigation, editing/creating graphics, and a mind boggling 16 milion sites waiting to give you ideas for gadgets & widgets to add to your site.
There is no crime in asking for advice either… There is a seemingly endless line of patient people waiting to help you. Just a word of advice, try to examine the work of the person you’re about to ask advice of – they may not share your same goals, taste or style. If you’re not sure how to view their work – ask them. They will usually have several samples they will be proud to show you. If they don’t – move on to another web design advice forum.
There are some complete solutions out there – just in case you are at your wits end – and just want to be free to focus on the content. Don’t forget blogs (in the rare case you’re delima can be solved with one of these type of solutions). Likewise, there is usually some really good design support for some of the bigger solutions like Joomla or Wordpress.
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March 10th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I love how you just cut to the chase. That's all some great advice. I'm new to design, so it helps me a lot.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Thank you.
Life is short – no time for running around the virtual bushes