Whenever you are going to start your online venture
By Ashutosh Jha →
Sunday, October 26, 2014
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| How to choose the best template for your website |
Whenever you are going to start your online venture, no matter it is a simple portfolio or a large e-commerce application, you should take care of its design. So it is always necessary to spend some time while selecting the design templates for your website, as this gives a good impression to your visitors. And it is always said that-
First Impression Is The Last Impression
So take care of your website design very carefully. Today I am going to discuss some key parameter you should take care while selecting the templates for your website. Below are those and I am sure with the help of these points you will be able to select the best template that will suit your business.
1. Know Your Purpose:
This is the very first criteria that you should think before selecting anything for your online dream. You should be aware of the purpose, your motive of the online platform that you are going to create.
Suppose you are going to book store and in the front of the store some cloths are hanging, how will you feel. The same applies to your visitor also. If you are going to create a blog, the template should be like a blog. Show it’s always good to first decide your need before selecting any template.
Suppose you are going to book store and in the front of the store some cloths are hanging, how will you feel. The same applies to your visitor also. If you are going to create a blog, the template should be like a blog. Show it’s always good to first decide your need before selecting any template.
2. Your Template Should Be Responsive:
Responsive templates are those templates which supports all the devices VIZ Desktop, Laptop, Tablets and Mobile Phones. Sometimes people have confusion that responsive means those which have faster speed, but it’s not. I will talk about the speed of your template in the next point.
So spend some time while selecting the template and it should be such that, it should support all the devices and should look good in all.
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| Try to choose responsive templates |
3. Template should be fast enough:
The internet giant, Google Inc. says-
The Web Should Be Fast Enough –Google Inc.
And if some precaution is asked by the Google, definitely one should take care of it. After all Google has more than 80% control of search traffic.
Also it’s really frustrating for your readers, if your web page will take much longer time to load and they may switch to the other blog and you will lose a valuable visitor. So focus on reducing the loading time of the website and select the template according to it. Also a slower site will prevent you to increase the Google page rank.
Also it’s really frustrating for your readers, if your web page will take much longer time to load and they may switch to the other blog and you will lose a valuable visitor. So focus on reducing the loading time of the website and select the template according to it. Also a slower site will prevent you to increase the Google page rank.
4. Proper combinations of Images and Sliders:
Images play a very important role. After all a single image can says thousands of words.
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Depending on the nature of website, you should have proper images and sliders. Like if you are going to start a fashion store or a news website, you should have a slider which will show the summary of the news. And your visitors who have less time can simply have a glance to the slider and they can get all the important news just in few seconds. And that will be the beauty of your website.
The same applies to your blog also. I don’t think it needs a slider but a proper image is necessary. So whenever required, you should use the images. But be careful while selecting the images, as if you will use the HD images or image of large size that will reduce the performance of the site. And it will increase the web page loading time and so it will violate the above point (Template should be fast enough).
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Depending on the nature of website, you should have proper images and sliders. Like if you are going to start a fashion store or a news website, you should have a slider which will show the summary of the news. And your visitors who have less time can simply have a glance to the slider and they can get all the important news just in few seconds. And that will be the beauty of your website.
The same applies to your blog also. I don’t think it needs a slider but a proper image is necessary. So whenever required, you should use the images. But be careful while selecting the images, as if you will use the HD images or image of large size that will reduce the performance of the site. And it will increase the web page loading time and so it will violate the above point (Template should be fast enough).
5. Avoid using too many widgets:
This is one of the common issues that I have seen on many websites/blogs that the admin uses many widgets. I think the idea behind that they are thinking is, it will attract the users and bla bla..
But this is not correct. Use only those widgets that are required. Like you can use subscribe option, recent posts, achieve, recent comments and few social media widgets. You can check this site, only the required and above mentioned widgets are used over here.
This makes the website beautiful and simple also, which attracts the users. Also if you have many widgets (Those are exactly not required), your website loading time will increase and you will face issue while doing SEO.
But this is not correct. Use only those widgets that are required. Like you can use subscribe option, recent posts, achieve, recent comments and few social media widgets. You can check this site, only the required and above mentioned widgets are used over here.
This makes the website beautiful and simple also, which attracts the users. Also if you have many widgets (Those are exactly not required), your website loading time will increase and you will face issue while doing SEO.
6. Avoid modifying the templates too much:
Usually whenever you select any template for your website, you customize it. It’s good and necessary also to customize the templates as per your need and use. But as it’s said, excess of anything is bad and the same applies here also. Don’t change or modify the template that you have selected too much. It will look not too good.
To avoid this, the best way is too change the template each time and check the preview of the changes design and decide whether it is looking good or not. You can even check the output in browser also, each time you change something. And by this way you can control it too get over modification and can prevent to give bad look.
To avoid this, the best way is too change the template each time and check the preview of the changes design and decide whether it is looking good or not. You can even check the output in browser also, each time you change something. And by this way you can control it too get over modification and can prevent to give bad look.
7. Use good combination of colors:
I had read a good quote about the colors and I would like to share that over here-
Colors Speak All Languages
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| Color combination of your website makes a great impression on the visitors |
8. Don’t flood your blog with ads:
First of all, what a blog is? A blog is a website where we share our thoughts and ideas with the online world. And of course if we want to earn from our work, it’s not bad (At least this I think). But again excess of anything is bad and so same here. I have personally seen many websites which is having lots of ads and you won’t be able to differentiate where the content is and which is ad. Try to avoid such scenario. Because due to this, you will lose the confidence of your visitors.
So it’s a best practice to use at most 3 ads in a web page. This will maintain the balance between your income and the quality of your blogs too. And even in 3 ads also you can earn much more than the crowd. I will talk about this in later topic.
So it’s a best practice to use at most 3 ads in a web page. This will maintain the balance between your income and the quality of your blogs too. And even in 3 ads also you can earn much more than the crowd. I will talk about this in later topic.
So this was all about How to choose an effective template for your blog. Hope after reading this article, you will be able to choose a best template for you as per your requirement. Hope you enjoyed reading this post.
Thanks for reading it friends. Keep visiting and i am eagerly waiting for your comments!
Thanks for reading it friends. Keep visiting and i am eagerly waiting for your comments!
