Comments on: Building a website from scratch vs. Building a website from a pre-made template

By: cPanel Reseller Hosting

cPanel Reseller Hosting — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:26:06 +0000

Although the design overall would be professional if you use a premade template, it wouldn’t be quite professional if you were a actual corporate company.

By: andi klee

andi klee — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:58:54 +0000

on modifying templates:

The aforementioned is the road I have chosen, and I am very happy with it. I am new to web development. It is a second career and I do not kid myself that I will ever become a true code jockey, or be able to compete with kids who were born with a mouse in their hand.

I purchased a few site building books and some software and promptly became so hopelessly mired down in information and websites that I had to just step back from it for awhile. One night I Stumbled [www.stumbleupon.com] onto Squarespace [www.squarespace.com] and I have never looked back. Square is elegant, easy to learn and highly customizable. I can take a template, break it all the way down and make it into whatever I want. The other main thing that sold me was it is easy to teach, so I can hand the site over to the client and quickly have them up to speed so they can maintain it themselves, thus eliminating longterm maintenance relationships.

I prefer a clean, minimalistic approach, and squarespace.com is the perfect platform to me.

By: andi klee

andi klee — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:58:05 +0000

To get the best of both worlds, what you could do is download or buy your template of choice (one that is 80% what you want out of the website) and use your HTML and Image editing skills to customize your template to get that last 20%.

I purchased a few site building books and some software and promptly became so hopelessly mired down in information and websites that I had to just step back from it for awhile. One night I Stumbled stumbleupon.com onto Squarespace squarespace.com and I have never looked back. Square is elegant, easy to learn and highly customizable. I can take a template, break it all the way down and make it into whatever I want. The other main thing that sold me was it is easy to teach, so I can hand the site over to the client and quickly have them up to speed so they can maintain it themselves, thus eliminating longterm maintenance relationships.

I prefer a clean, minimalistic approach, and squarespace.com is the perfect platform to me.

By: EMEKA

EMEKA — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:12:30 +0000

hey this really helped me alot ..i was thinking of building one from scratch , but now ..i would rather put those 50 hrs into marketing my product. Thanks for the heads up brother.

GOOD LUCK

By: dedicated servers

dedicated servers — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:49:19 +0000

I think the other issue to think about is that while using a template may save you a lot of time in the short term, if you learn to build a custom site you’ll have that knowledge for the long term – which is handy both for maintaining that site as well as for building other/maintaining sites.

By: David-Gerrard

David-Gerrard — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:18:50 +0000

This is one way of building a website, but I use a package that has taught me to step by step how to build a successful website, which now I know pretty well (no html-or technical expertise)

This knowledge has been solely responsible for me earning an income from my website, and launching a website building business to build websites for other people.I have also learned a vast amount of knowledge from one little software package.

Truly Amazing!