Quick and Easy Web Design for Slackers or the Technologically Challenged

The Web is an ideal channel through which to expose your goods and services to veritably millions of potential customers worldwide. So, you’re ready to take the plunge and move or expand your business online, but there’s only one problem: you think that HTML is an acronym for “hot toasted monkey lips” and “body tags” are those cool tattoos you saw on that hot chick at the beach last weekend. In other words, you don’t know beans about Web programming and have the design sense of an amoeba or perhaps you’re just too lazy or simply don’t have the time or patience to tackle the tedious task yourself. No need to panic, there is a simple, quick, hassle-free method to create a polished, professional-looking Web site with little or no knowledge of complicated HTML programming, and no, it doesn’t require paying Gary, the Geeky Guru of Gigabytes thousands of your hard earned dollars to do it for you.

A simple, sensible solution to a speedy Web presence for your company is to use a Web template. Web templates are basically ready-made, easily customizable, professionally designed complete websites, available in a wide variety of designs, themes, and color combinations for very reasonable prices or, in some cases, even free. They consist of files that can be downloaded and loaded into user-friendly html editors like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, thus allowing custom content, logos, and images to be “plugged-in” for a personalized, smart, finished website in a snap. There are a growing number of websites from which to purchase or download Web templates, such as WebTemplateZone.com or TemplateTrove.com. Even if you’re a little leery about editing the template yourself, most companies who offer templates for sale also offer services to customize them for you at an additional fee.





All things considered, compared to the time and tedium involved in learning HTML, designing and building a site yourself, or the expense of hiring a professional web developer to do it for you, web templates are the way to go to get your goods or services online and available to the world quickly and easily, no experience necessary.

Quick and Easy Web Design for Slackers or the Technologically Challenged / Kyle Dusang

The author, Kyle Dusang, is a software developer and owner of Harmony Hollow Software as well as webmaster of several other websites including LoveBugCards.com and DeskFlakes.com.