Before you start committing time and effort into building your website information, you should be 100% certain that the website template you’re using or about to use is a perfect choice for your website. Choosing a good template or getting a good template is usually one aspect of website design that should make you look beyond what is already available for you.
What is a website template?
A website template (or website theme) is an already designed web page, or set of HTML web pages that one can use to add their own information in a form of text, images, videos, etc. to build a website.
Many website builder platforms have templates that work specifically within that platform and Weebly website templates are no exceptions. Weebly, like other website builder platforms have their own templates included for you to choose and build your website. These included templates are usually very basic in both appearance and features.
How to choose a good website template?
As stated above, templates included for you usually don’t have some of the key features and tools you need to build your website which means you need to choose and in most cases, pay for a template.
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To choose a good template for your website, you must first outline the features you need for your website and what each should do. For example if you need:
- A slider on the home page that has 4 slides each showing the four services you offer.
- A portfolio section to show your work samples.
- A pricing page to show (in a tabular form) prices for the difference services you offer.
- A testimonial page where you can show feedback you collect from clients with ability to show client photo.
- and so on and so forth…
After outlining these features you want for your website you’ll quickly come to the realization that the basic template included for you lacks majority of these features which means you need to look elsewhere to purchase a suitable template.
There are many choices when it comes to choosing a template that will work well on your website but whatever template you choose for your website must have the following features:
- Easy to install and customize
- Very easy to use and update by you.
- Must be 100% compatible with the platform/software you’re building your website on.
- Must be fully responsive.
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If you can pay for domain and hosting, you must definitely pay for a good theme.
Knowing what you know now, you can see the need to pay for a great template for your website. There’s no point paying monthly for hosting and paying yearly for domain on a website that really doesn’t appeal to your audience, a website that doesn’t compete (in terms of appearance and features) with other websites of similar business.
You should and must get a suitable theme that has the features and tools you need to build and manage your website.