Many people are looking to start a new web based business to supplement or replace their current income. The internet has made it much more affordable for anybody to start a new business. With a simple domain name, hosting package and a website, you can start marketing your products or services worldwide.
By hiring a web development company to create your new site, you do not need to have the technical know-how required to build a website. Because the internet is relatively new, most web designers are young adults in the early 20′s or early 30′s who opted to get a degree in web development.
There are many web development companies offering their services and it can be quite daunting to determine which company is the best for your needs. You will also find that prices can vary considerably and it can be quite confusing. It’s also very important to find an honest and reliable company as there is a lot of online fraud.
Many people who start a new online business do not have a large budget. However, there is a solution. By using a Website Template to build your site you can save a lot of money, usually about 50% off the total cost of creating one from scratch. A web template is a pre-designed webpage that only lacks content and photos. Website templates reduce or eliminate the need for a professional graphic designer, thus reducing the overall cost of building a website from scratch.
There are free website templates and premium website templates. If you are serious about your business I would highly recommend you purchase a premium design template. I find that free templates tend to be poor in quality or definitely not as nice as a premium template. There are many sites selling templates and you can usually choose from thousands of different designs. When choosing a web template you want to pick one which has the layout and functionality you require.
The first step in creating a website is to design a layout. This will involve choosing various fonts, frames, graphics, a color scheme and basic functionality. The next step is creating this design in an html editor, which can require a great deal of skill. The final step is to add the content — the actual text and images. A website template eliminates the first two steps automatically. By loading the template into an HTML editor like Adobe Dreamweaver, text and images can be added to the ready-made pages. Usually, a number of page template options are available.
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In the web design industry there are several ways to reduce the cost of building a website. One of which is using a website template.
The second is using open-source content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and OsCommerce, which are free to use.
A web template is a pre-made website design where all you need to do is insert your logo, content and images.
Because open-source CMS’s have become so popular there is a strong demand for templates for these CMS’s.
As a result the most widely used (and the best) templates used in the web design industry are the following (in descending order, first being most popular).
1. WordPress Themes
2. Joomla Templates
3. Drupal Themes
4. Magento Themes
5. OsCommerce Templates
You can simply search for a template, purchase and download it for as little as $35-$200. Compared to the price of $1000-2500 to hire a graphic designer to create a design from scratch.
Creating or adding a new article in Joomla is fairly easy once you get the hang of it.
Joomla uses the term “article” when referring to pages or blog posts. It is basically an piece of content and can be used in any format. As a page, post or news item.
Joomla places their content in Sections and Categories. This may be confusing for people at first but it allows for much more complex structures of content.
For this tutorial we are going to keep it simple. We are going to skip the part of creating a section and a category for a different post. I am going to go straight to creating or adding a article.
Example
So you have a Joomla website and you want to add a About Us page.
Steps to adding the page (Article)
Step 1 – Start by logging into your admin panel
Step 2 – Put your cursor over the CONTENT tab at the top of your admin panel. Then click on Article Manager (see image below).
Step 3 – On the top right hand side of your screen there is a New button with a white plus(+) sign inside a green circle. Click the button (see image below)
Step 4 – You will then proceed to add your article title, content and keywords. You will also need to select the Section and Category but we will leave this for a later post. You do not need to enter anything for the alias, however you can if you like. And you can choose to publish it to the Front page (home) if you like. You will also need to enter your description and keywords for your article. This is not required but recommended for SEO purposes. (See image below)
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Step 5 – Once you have completed step 4 you are ready to save your new page and publish it. If you click the Save button at the top right hand corner, it will save and publish your new article and then take you back to your list of articles. If you click Apply it will save and publish your article but you will remain in that window. Sort of like the Save and Save As feature in Word.
And that’s it your done! Now you can go to the front-end of your site and view your changes.
Good luck
