Website design

engltayl · 3 August 2007 at 4:37PM

I am looking at making a website for my company. I dont want to spend a lot. I could do it myself but it would take me ages as i have little free time. Has anybody used the website templates you can buy. Ive seen some pretty professional one for about $50.

Has anybody had any dealings with these templates?

Does anybody know of another way of creating a proffessional looking template on the cheap and quickly?

cheers

Phil51 · 3 August 2007 at 5:46PM

I would get hold of a copy of Macomedia Contribute. It was intended to be a graphical site editor for Dreamweaver so that once a website is created, non-techies could update the site. I use it all the time and create sites from the included templates. I think it cost about £60 when I bought it but it is well worth it.

continentalgal · 3 August 2007 at 6:37PM

Phil's post reminded me of a site I had come across a while ago, ran a quick search on google and voilà, check out Open Source Web Design, they offer lots of templates for FREE. Not sure though if that's of any use for you, just thought it could save you the expense

Wombat · 8 August 2007 at 11:09AM

There are numerous free website templates available on the Net. Just Google for "free website templates".

Here are a few I looked at:

http://www.freetemplatesonline.com/templates/page1.html
http://www.mollio.org/
http://webdesign.about.com/od/websitetemplates/a/bl_layouts.htm
http://www.cssfill.com/
http://www.zymic.com/show_templates.php?id=1
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/web-publishing/free-csshtml-template-roundup-039947.php

Free animated gifs:

http://www.gifanimations.com/index.jsp

An alternative website designer (free):

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

HTH.

Wombat · 8 August 2007 at 11:25AM

And if you want a free, easy-to-use, top notch website design program, go here:

https://shops.netobjects.com/cgi-bin/pages/pcpro

for your free licence key to NetObjects Fusion 9, download the trial version from here:

http://www.webcominternet.com/fusion/NOF9_Full_EN.rar

put your free licence key in and you're away.

richyrichuk · 8 August 2007 at 11:38AM

if your willing to spend a little money https://www.lenshaw.com +18 (OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE) a very good designer. if u email for just a template he'll design off anything.

everything is done by hand, and some of the work he has created is very professional as you can see..

Ivan_Konstantinov · 8 August 2007 at 2:03PM

Wombat wrote: »

And if you want a free, easy-to-use, top notch website design program, go here:

thanks will try at the weekend :money:

rambo43 · 12 June 2008 at 8:43PM

be careful with *free* templates - they are often created using unlicensed images which will make you liable for the copyright infingement (Youll get a nice letter through the post asking for £thousands) - And its all automatic. Google Picscout for some more info.

Soulistic · 12 June 2008 at 10:03PM

I think the best bet is to get something open source... these designs have full code and you can customise it to what you like. A few good sites for open source web designs:

http://www.oswd.org/
http://www.opendesigns.org/

And best of all, they are 100% completely free and you won't have to worry about license infringement as many of the designs use stock images that are royalty free, and have an open license for use.

All the best!

Idiophreak · 12 June 2008 at 10:07PM

I'm sure there's an MS thing they do for free, isn't there - anyone know what I'm on about?

Soulistic · 12 June 2008 at 10:09PM

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