Cheap Templates

Website templates are very affordable and they save you a lot of effort and time when you want to create a new layout for your website. However, a lot of people make 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 guidelines to help you avoid those mistakes.

The first obvious mistake you should be aware of is using a template that is very popular. If many people use the same template, your website will not appear unique at all and your credibility as a solid, different website will be tarnished. In other words, you will appear generic just like your next-door neighbours.

To whole point of using a web template is to save time and effort. You just change the title and appropriate details and you’re done. The biggest mistake one makes is to customize the template beyond recognition. While that may be good in the sense that you’re creating a unique graphic, you’re defying the very purpose of using a web template — saving time and effort.

In some circumstances, some people simply make the wrong choice of templates. This is a very subjective issue but you have to be careful in selecting templates to suit your audience. Do not choose templates just because they are pretty, choose them because they serve your purpose.

Today I want to give you my “secret” place for where you can get WordPress templates for free.

The site is called WordPressThemesBase.

It has thousands of templates and all are free.

These are no garbage templates! Most of them are made by good designers which share their work with others.

These design tips will help your visitors read the info from your site

1. Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.
2. Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.
3. Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.
4. Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

If you are a total beginner in Html world and you don’t know where to start watch the movie from this post.

This is a good Html tutorial made for total newbies.

Empty canvas is one of my favourite WordPress theme.

It’s probably this minimalistic, “less is more” approach that made the theme so popular (4800 downloads and counting). In fact, I’m sure of it, as most implementations I’ve seen kept the same look and feel and only updated the theme with the proper logo / header / color scheme.

Empty canvas features:

• compatible with WordPress 2.7.1 (sorry, no threaded comments though – I don’t like them too much)
• wider than Corporate Canvas, allowing better ad integration ( the days of 800×600 are pretty much gone anyway)
• same simple look as Corporate Canvas, but got rid of the comment bubble
• dynamic top menu (page navigation) and widget ready sidebar
• archive page, catering for most situations: categories, tags, search, authors, etc.
• valid, cross browser, minimalistic code

You can download this Wp theme for free. Just click here.