Website Design Options

A question I get asked a lot is, "I want to put up my own website. Should I have it designed from scratch or just get one of those free templates?"

There isn't a right or wrong answer here. It all comes down to several factors which I am going to cover in this article. Ultimately, the decision of which way to go is up to you. I'm simply going to point out the pros and cons of each.

Factor 1 is your skill or funds availability. The reason I have lumped these together is because you have 2 options for getting a custom site done. You can do it yourself, or you can get somebody else to do it for you, obviously.

Doing it yourself is going to require you to have the skill to create your own website from scratch. If your HTML skills are good, this may be an option that you want to explore. However, if you don't know HTML from STP Oil Treatment, then you might want to hire somebody to do the site for you. In this case, there is a cost factor and it's not a small one. Web design is not cheap. You could be charged thousands of dollars for a website, depending on how complex the site is going to be. So if you're lacking in the funds area, or don't want to pay that kind of money, outsourcing your website design may not be an option for you.

Going with a template removes both of these problems to a degree. With a template, you're still going to have to make some minor modifications to some of the design features if you want to customize them to your particular site, but even if you can't do this yourself, this kind of service should be relatively inexpensive. The point is, going with a template relieves you of the burden of having to design a site from scratch and also of having to pay out exorbitant web design fees.