Build Your Website in 3 Ways

There are basically 3 ways to build a website, not all three way will suit you and it really depends on your level of competence and how complex or simple you want to build them.

Using a template to build website

A ready made template can really help ease you in designing for the website, because it has already a design for you, and what you need to do is to add in content and some small changes in the design.

You can always use pay or free template. For pay ones, you can pay some website designer to design the website according to what you want, making it unique to the Internet. Best of all, you own the design and it can help your readers by instilling branding consciousness.

A professional custom made website template will vary from USD$500 to USD$2,000.

Free template can be found by typing “free website template” on the search engines. Or you can go to FreeWebsitTemplate.com to get a free download. Here are some of the major disadvantages of using a free website template:

1)      Other website owners may have used the same template too. This will not make your website branding good, because it is not unique.

2)      You may drive traffic and your page rank to the designer of the template. As you do not own the template, the designer will usually require you to link back (a must normally) to credit the designer. The link is usually at the footer, and some of your readers might want to find out more about the designer. This will also result in leaking your page rank to the designer as well.

Usually small businesses and individuals will like to use website template for themselves. For me I would want to use a customized template instead, so sometimes I brought some templates from DreamTemplate.com.

Using HTML to build a website

A HTML website is one to look for if you want to really have a different look for your company. You are able to tweak it to your own website appearance to suit your company. The colour and the structure can be change according to what your clients are looking for, making it easy for them to navigate the website.

Usually Dreamweaver is the preferred choice to design the HTML website. Dreamweaver is a very powerful HTML editor where most professional website designer uses. It has great control in designing a website template in HTML.

Using a HTML editor to design a website will take time, effort and great competence. That us why this is usually done by a professional who is a full time website designer.

Using a text editor to build website

A great control in designing a website, what you need is the code of building the website. This is free and you can use a notepad on your computer to design the website out of text alone.

This is extremely time consuming and hard to build, without the precision of the html code, you can never build a website with a text editor. Well there are some that knows about building a website using text editor. But I will not recommend using it, as this is extremely hard and not easy thing.

If you want to learn your HTML the fastest, then using text editor will surely increase your knowledge fast. Not suitable for newbies and those who want to earn money fast.

Conclusion in building website

I must say that whatever way you use, it will highly depend on your money to invest, time and competency in building a website. If in any case you want to use outsource a professional because you have the money but no time and competency, then outsourcing will be your solution. If you do not have a lot of money, but have time and some knowledge, I will recommend using the template instead.

Let me know what your opinion is and share with us in the comment below. I will be listening.

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