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from: Deb St. George - WonderRanchPublishing.netThe Internet today is a vibrant and dynamic environment; websites change almost daily, and the means of drawing attention to your site change as well. So, it’s important to have a well designed website, yet not go broke setting it up and maintaining it. This is where the applications and tools contained in the Joomla Content Management Services (CMS) can be very helpful and valuable. Joomla contains a series of free templates that you can use as the building blocks to create a website. If none of them fill your need, you can design templates of your own, and build your website based on them. A key benefit of all of these templates is that they’re easy to validate to the World Wide Web standards.
These days, time is a precious commodity, not to be wasted. One of the powers of Joomla website design is its time-saving features. First off, you can separate your website content from the presentation. If you are using cascading style sheets (CSS) in your layout, this is particularly useful. In fact, most websites going online these days make use of separated content and presentation. And second, if you want to change the entire look of your site, it’s as easy as designing another new template. Any of the CSS templates you create using Joomla also have the virtue of speed; they load faster and are very easy to maintain.
As mentioned above, the World Wide Web is a very dynamic environment. This points up yet another advantage of using Joomla to design your website. It allows you to design web pages that draw their content from a database. This may not sound like much, but it means that revising/updating your web content is as easy as editing your database. While modifying a website can be tricky and often requires training, editing a database is literally as simple as using a text editor like Windows Word! Even a semi-skilled office worker can handle that. Here again, you’re saving time and money; hiring a skilled web designer cost a lot more than paying a secretary.
In terms of presentation – the look to your website, you can create CSS in a layout with three columns, if you like, and specify the width to your web pages. You also don’t want your website to just be cold and bland; a change in format adds life and vivacity to even simple text and Joomla has simple codes that will allow you to add just the right creative touch to every page. Also, people tend to shy away from websites that have a cluttered look to them. If you columns of text are all crammed together, it can be disheartening to a potential reader/customer. With Joomla design, you can put some column spacing (what’s known as gutters) between the columns of text, and thus give it a more inviting appearance.
It’s ironic, but the exact versatility and variety of some design packages can actually work against you. When you have so much to choose from, you sometimes have a hard time making up your mind. As a result, you can be slow to get your website up and running. Joomla has the answer to that issue. Its design package has a slew of tools and tips to help you get your site up quickly. After that, maintaining it and making changes are a snap; so you can take you time and review all the various features and styles available. Making changes to your website regularly helps to keep it dynamic and current. When you consider the vast number of other websites that are out there competing with you, you must strive to be unique.
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