Website Design

One of my responsibilities in the new business will be the creation and maintenance of our Company's web presence. Now, while I have an eye for design, I'm no professional graphic designer. This, allied to the fact that the creation of a site from scratch can be a very long process, that is even before you start to add the content, I have taken a corporate decision that we will purchase a ready built website template. This can then be modified to suit our needs more exactly. Research into available templates for sale only goes to justify this decision even more.

Very high quality templates can be bought for a such a low price (arround $60) that one wonders why anybody would spend the time and effort creating a site from scratch. These templates include all the Photoshop, flash, fonts and html files required for customisation. Check out the SSI-Developer and DesignGalaxy sites for examples and prices. Also available are complete corporate packages including logo, business cards, stationery, Powerpoint templates etc.

While many of the designs are not to my taste, there are so many that eventually you'll find something that can be utilised as the template for your own site. At the very least it is good for researching colour schemes and layout styles.

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• Business
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