Free or Paid Blogger and WordPress themes and templates, Risks and benefits
Tips for website development, Professional website designs
Note: If you are dedicated and serious for your professional website ownership, go ahead and read our detailed evaluation on free and paid themes.
A website or blog being successful depends upon good quality content, updated information and eventually your satisfied website reader. But poor website experience by precious visitors lead to failed blog/website. It is design, easy navigation, arranged content and balanced color combination which convince visitor to stay longer and come back again.
Whole web is full of professionally designed layouts for different platforms including Blogger, WordPress, Joomla, flash websites, and static designs. A number of websites, blogs are offering free and paid themes and templates. Where you can easily access these templates, explore the template of your choice and either download it free or purchase at reasonable price.
In such a scenario, we ignore the do's and Don't of using such templates. Such ignorance lead to low quality traffic, less visitors to your blog or website and little exposure out there.
So what should be kept in mind to be successful website builder and owner? We will point out the risks as well as benefits in using either free or paid templates/themes.
Risks of using free blog/website templates:
No doubt free themes are available in huge number. You just download, apply it to your website and you are done. You do hard work on good content writing after huge web search. No doubt it is necessary. But why is your website not showing on web. It is not that simple. Let us explore them one by one.
Poor Structure:
Free templates are prepared with less hard work. Only purpose is beautiful outlook. Apparently good looking free templates do not have valid and standard HTML code implementation. This will result in errors in sitemap.
Lost identity:
Free template is downloaded by hundreds of people. There will be number of websites with same template design that you will download. Then your content presentation will not be unique. It will always confuse visitors that which one is real and authentic website.
Search engine failure:
It is harmful that visitors are confused about unique and authentic website. More dangerous is that search engines like Google will declare such template as a spam and internet virus circulating in different websites.
Hidden Links:
Free templates are full of links pointing to sites you never know. It cause loss of traffic to unknown websites you do not want to.
Difficult editing and modification:
Free templates have complex and irregular coding. Some design modification is always required over time to meet up to date trends. If you even try to get desired design, you end up in errors and complete loss of website layout.
Copyright back links:
Free website designs have usually a link at bottom pointing to either author or a website. It represents weakness in your ownership and appears that someone else is owner of your website.
No technical support:
Free access has no technical support. You are, on your own. Always requesting someone else to give you some guidelines and solve your website problems. In return they will respond only if they have free time. And you cannot blame them because they are not paid for such services and if they help you, it is nice of them.
Ideal template always remains a dream:
Let's say you have downloaded a nice looking theme. But you are always thinking that if this and that small changing is done, it will become awesome. No freely available design can satisfy you and never will it be your dream design.
Benefits of using paid/purchased website designs and blog templates:
Now you have some info about drawbacks and risks in using free templates.Then Question in your mind will be, ''what are the benefits and rewards of using paid/purchased template designs?"
In fact you already know the answer. All risks present in free templates are solved here.
In short these are following;
24/7 Technical Support:
You will get full support and guideline if you have any problem in future.Proper HTML structure:
When you pay someone, they will give their best shot and come up with standardized sitemap checked for cross browser compatibility and for different screen resolutions.
Unique website:
Now you are proud owner of a unique design that nobody else has. Your visitor will always remember and identify your website upon his second visit.
Search Engine Success:
Google and other search engines will recognize and index your website as unique and only website having no match over internet.
No hidden links:
Such theme does not contain spam and hidden links of other websites.
Easy modification:
You can modify and edit because of proper and structured coding. Any installation becomes easy.
Dream website design come true!
You can order design of your choice and also according to type and content of your website and blog. As news, education and photography etc. require different layout.
Price range:
Price depends upon specific design and its type. Usually it is on average 15-40$. But price does not matter as you will pay only one time and get benefits for life.
Check Templates Now:
We have large no. of professional templates both free and paid. Select one which suits you best.
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Disclaimer:
This evaluation is completely based on personal experiences of authors of this post. One can agree or disagree based on his own experience.
