A Custom Design is a website design which includes company logo, custom graphics as per given requirements. For example, one may want different placement of the company's website logo on the design with different website's color theme.
Good website custom template are optimized for good performance on the net.
Optimization
It is a skill of converting graphic web design into a usable website template, that is called optimized custom web template. Optimized custom web template is faster to download, search engine friendly and easy to navigate. Most of website template selling companies do not care about optimization, as they are selling fancy graphics, which may not have any valuable use on the net.
Search Engine Optimization
Your website may have great graphics to attract visitors. But if your website can not be searched by popular search engines like Google Yahoo MSN, then there is no use of it. So you website custom design template should be coded according to acceptable standards to make your website easily searched by all search directories on the net.
Web standards
They are best practices for building quality websites so that they are available for usability and accessibility of the web content. It is a philosophy of the web design and development that includes those best methods. Custom website designs are made keeping web standards. There are non-profit organization that release document for web standards. Read more on wiki
Good Practices to make websites
To make users visit on your website, there are many factors that affect. First of all your website should be user friendly with proper navigation. Second factor which is most important is download speed of your website. No matter how attractive your site may be, if visitors go away just because they don’t want to keep waiting forever for it to finish downloading, you have wasted all your time and effort. You need to monitor your site carefully and control factors that slow down your website.
Keep the following things in mind:
- Keep your web page small. Divide your content into several pages. The page should not exceed more than three scrolls in length. To estimate the ideal length, just press ‘Page Down’ three times on the keyboard.
- If you know html, using the HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes of the IMG tag can help your page load faster on some browsers. It will behave as a placeholder, in which the image will appear positioned in the appropriate area, and text will be organized accordingly.
- Reduce the number of boxes, which you make with one click on the HTML editor software. Designers call this “tables’. Use less table tags. Second, since browsers don’t show you a page until the tables’ load completely, making small table (boxes) can also enhance page download.
- HTML editors can also help you remove unnecessary tags from your html files. For example, dreamweaver has the cleanup HTML’ option, which can search your page and delete unwanted tags.
Read more: http://www.designoweb.com/website-worth-a-click.html
CSS Template
CSS Template is a short form of cascading stylesheet. CSS template use cascading stylesheet to make it easier for you to customize website design according to your requirements. You also get more control over the design of a website. CSS allows you to control the layout and look of your page easily. CSS tags or properties are very easy to use.
[The style sheet is a text file in which you can define styles of HTML elements. It is set of instructions for web browsers to display a page.]
CSS makes it possible for you to set an exact font size, border width. With CSS, designer can make different borders for different sides of box.
CSS Template is also called XHTML template, table-less template.
Read more: http://www.designoweb.com/css.html
Table-less Template
Html template uses html tags <table> <tr> <td> to make a box/placeholder for an element of the webpage. For example, logo placement is fixed using <table> tags. Nowadays, browser can interpret any element of the web page without using <table>. Those web pages has no <table> tag in the html coding. They use CSS (Cascading Style sheet ) to place elements of the custom web page design. Table-less design/template is also called CSS template or XHTML template.
XHTML template
Xhtml template is a custom design template using XHTML, as per web standards to make the web page using CSS and <div> tags mainly. XHTML uses less tags for the placements of web page elements and expose content of the page. It reduces the coding and gives space for more content.
Related Questions:
I have already bought a design template from other website. Can you customize it?
We can customize your current template, but we would need to re-work on it. The reason, most of the template bought from other websites are not optimized for graphics and html. Most of template use effects on graphic that make your site load slowly, as they are heavy in size. Tools are available to optimized graphics.
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