Template sites and Templating. What's the difference

Yes, what's the difference

In a nutshell template sites are pre-packaged web sites, typically containing a menu structure pointing to a few pages. There are some attributes about them to consider:

• They are rigid. How was the navigation designed. Does it use graphical elements (almost always)? What if you want to change the menu structure then?
  
• Was it designed to be flexible in other ways? what if you change the logo at the top will it skew the page display?
  
• How do you feel about several other web sites having essentially the same look?
  
• What if you need to add e-commerce, a blog or some other functionality? again, will the framework be flexible enough for these additions without major rework?
  
• If you select a template site and modify it and "break something" who will fix it.
  

these are a few considerations but certainly not all.


What do you mean by "Templating"?

Weather your designing a site from scratch or creating template sites at some point you need to design the first "Template" that other things flow from.

Template site designers do not need to consider any customer specific customer needs at this point they just come up with a pretty design that they hope will sell.

Web site designers also "Template" but we do it at a point where the unique customer design needs have been considered and we do it with future flexibility in mind (because hopefully we will be the go to person for updating the site.

posted by Adam Signore @ 6:57 AM