If you’ve ever used a blogging site like WordPress, you may be familiar with the idea of “themes”different “skins” you can put on the basic blog appearance that add images, links, and more. However, if you’re designing a website for your business, you don’t have to go through a blogging site. There are plenty of website “templates” to choose from that will drastically decrease the time and money you spend on creating your website.Simply enter “website templates” into your search engine of choice and you’ll find sites with plenty of user-submitted templates in their archives. FreeWebsiteTemplates.com, FreeSiteTemplates.com, and OSWD.org (Open Source Web Design) are some examples. Some templates will be free, while others (single-use copyrighted templates, for example) will be for sale. How do you know which ones to use? It can depend on both your level of skill with web design, as well as what you want to get out of your site. Make sure before any money changes hands that you’ll be able to work with what you’re ordering. Read the rest of this entry »