How to Solve "Not a Designer" Problems

Do you know the secret way to get a professional website design for your business - cheaply?

You can buy crisp, clean good quality website templates for under £50! You can even some good quality templates for FREE! (I want to let you into a secret. The template for this website design cost me just $50, not hundreds of pounds).

Have you got very hung-up on the look and feel of your website? It's easily done.

How Important is the Design?

Certainly, I agree that a professional looking site is a "must". And I also recommend that the theme of your site must be in keeping with the theme and personality of your business.

Clearly, it would be wrong to use a light-hearted, brightly coloured children's playschool style for a top-flight law firm website - but I think you could comfortably interchange the look and feel of law firm website with that of a financial advice company, for example.

But in my opinion, as long as your website design sympathetically supports your information rather than distracts and confuses visitors, it's best not to eat up a lot of time on minor design details. You need to spend that time analysing what your website needs to do for your business and your present and future customers - not worrying about whether your "read more" buttons should be "dark blue" or "dark red" or have "square" or "rounded" corners.

The large number of quick and cheap pre-made template designs, in a wide range of subjects, will work for all businesses with just minor adjustments like adding your logo and tagline and adding some industry specific graphics or product shots.

I'm not saying it's OK to have an amateurish website. But I am saying, as long as your site design isn't distracting, looks professional and suggests that the business who owns it cares about publishing up-to-date useful information for their visitors, the nuances of the graphic design is not a major deal breaker for customers.

Website Templates Immediately Solve the "Not a Designer" Problem

There's no need to throw a lot of money about when you're coming up with the right look and feel for your website. Here's how templates melt away your design problems...

Start off by browsing through a galley of professional templates dramatically speeds up the process of finalising the design - cheaply and easily
Get internal agreement early on in your project and avoid arguments over personal design preferences and minor details later
Save a lot of money by only paying for customisation rather than paying a designer to reinvent the wheel and come up with a brand new design just for you
Show your favourite templates to customers and get them to pick their own favourite so you're confident you've made the right choice before opening your wallet and get the template customised
Mock up a few pages of your site in the template to doublecheck you're happy with the result before apply it to all the pages in your website.
Remove a common obstacle to achieving the one real thing that brings online success - focusing on your present and future customers and how you create a website they want to visit and want to do business with

I get my templates from a lot of sources, but two I recommend in particular are http://www.rockettheme.com where this template came from, and also http://wwwdreamstime.com . You can get websites templates for plain "html" sites and also more sophisticated websites, using standard, popular free software like Wordpress that let you log in and edit your website content with your browser (writing like you do when you send email messages online).

Where To Get Other Good Quality Photos and Graphics For Your Site

As well as templates, you can buy illustrations, diagrams and indvidual photos very cheaply, using stock photography websites. These sites offer quality artwork at a very affordable price.

Just like the templates, stock images solve a wide variety of "artistic" problems too:

Avoid overused, tired images like clip-art that comes with Microsoft Office - (Does anyone really need to see an animated cartoon envelope on a contact us page? - Ed.)
Search for abstract themes, like "teamwork" or "motivation" to kickstart your creative juices
Quickly identify images you would like to use to customise you off the shelf template
Be sure you have copyright permission to use the images

You find lot of the images from this website on: http://www.dreamstime.com.

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