Web Templates

There are a plethora of sites offering tens of thousands of Web Templates, believe me I’ve looked at them all. Web Site design is a very confusing world, filled with tricks and traps waiting to snare the unwary. Most of the cheap templates are just that. For only a few dollars you get a nice looking front page, sometimes a second page and a simple CSS and that’s it. These are good if your intent is only to have two or three pages all looking the same. For anything more complex you might as well forget these and start from scratch because that’s what you will be doing. There is a significant amount of page creation and code rewriting with these simple templates that in many cases you’re better off without them. That’s not to say that there are not some nice designs among these templates and if you see one you like and want to make that your starting page then by all means go for it.

Your other option is to go with a more complete template. The template I used on this site came from Web in a Minute. (Copyright © 2000-2007 Web In A Minute™) They offer templates that can run up to 150 pages with several different additional-page designs that you can use to add even more. These templates are as big or as small as you need and almost ready to go. However even with these there is a lot of work needed.