Use templates to build your business WEB Sites.

Designing WEB sites it’s not easy. If you strongly believe in the success of your business idea hire a web designer right away. Anyway, these days, to start and successfully run internet business is very hard and demanding job. It is not very smart to start spending money for Web designers for your first Internet Business project.

Instead you can learn to build simple WEB sites and than you can test your ideas in the real circumstances. Simple WEB site doesn’t mean bad or ugly WEB site.

At the beginning you could try to use Site Builders or Blogs but I strongly suggest you starting learning how to use WEB templates.

There are several advantages of using templates to build your sites. First of all there are a lot of professional and free templates ready to use out there at Internet. For instance try some at freewebtemplates.com. After you choose your template, very fast, in hours or minutes you can create you site by adding content.

The main disadvantage when using templates is that the design isn’t unique. You can overcome this by adding you own logo and altering the colors or fonts. Also remove the unnecessary outgoing links (hidden or visible)

In order to use WEB templates you need a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get!) editor like Dreamweaver or FrontPage. It is also useful to have some previous knowledge of HTML.

I personally use Dreamweaver MX 2004. In the [split view] you can see both, html code and the appearance of the template. You can create WEB site project [Create New / Dreamweaver site...], assign template, insert editable regions in the template and start building your WEB site. After you define the FTP access you can easily upload your pages to your host.