Today I want to look at how WordPress themes can help you as a business owner when building a Tulsa based website design. It is important to take every advantage available when building a website. Centupli can help you build not only amazing website templates and designs, but we can also help you create the right content to go into your website design.
As you will see today, with the use of templates it is relatively easy to create a good looking website. The look of a website is only half of the battle. Websites today not only have to look good, but they also have to function well. That means that you need to create the correct content to place in your website. Centupli can help you with this also. We have skilled SEO content writers with experience in crafting content that looks and ranks amazing inside of Google.
For more information about our services or to get started building your very own website, call us at 918-218-2228. If you have any questions about our services or the content presented here today, email us at info@centupli.com. When you do, ask about our “try before you buy” website design subscription. You can see your website before ever paying a cent.
What is a WordPress Theme?
A WordPress Theme is like a template. These themes are built by website designers with experience in coding and content creation. WordPress itself comes with a variety of free themes that you can download and try out on your site. In addition, you can purchase themes for your website for around $80 from places like Theme Island or Elegant Themes.
Using Premade Themes
Like I just said, there are sites that build themes for you. You can purchase these themes for a fixed price, but I would recommend an alternative. Instead of purchasing the theme, use the “online demo” feature of many of these themes to navigate through the fake site. Use these premade themes as examples and inspiration for your own website. You want your website to be unique. Chances are if you found that theme someone else has also. In the crowded online marketplace, it is important to stand out. Using premade, generic themes is the fastest way to blend it. These themes are great for inspiration. Use the theme to remind yourself of all the little things you want to include in your own site, but don’t strictly copy the theme.
Using Custom Themes in your Tulsa Website Design
The best way to stand out in the crowded online marketplace is to create a custom theme. You can create these themes in three ways. I want to look at each of these ways here today. One, two or maybe all three ways could help you to build your very own site. Of course at any time you could simply call us, we will build your website design for free and convert that design into a website that will cost you about as much as your morning coffee.
Custom Programming
The first and most laborious way you could build your website is with custom programming. This is where you build a website template from scratch. You can get in and write the HTML, CSS and Javascript code (and maybe even some PHP) that it takes to have a good looking website.
If you are really comfortable with coding or you need something extremely specific, this may be a viable option. For most companies, however, this is a waste of time. I started out my programming career building these kinds of websites. They are extremely labor intensive and take longer than you might think to get right.
Take it from someone who has been there. If you build these types of websites, inevitably when you’re working on your 3rd @media query to make the mobile version of a font work with your current website design you’ll end up wanting to pull your hair out.
Editing Stock Templates
This is the inbetween stages between fully custom and fully visual. This is great if you are building a website as a hobby. You want SOMETHING but you don’t really need anything fancy or exciting. Most of these sites look ok in a generic kind of way. You could of course “open up the hood” so to speak and delve into the code on the back end, but oftentimes that is more hassle than it’s worth.
Building using Divi
Divi is the best option of the three. Programmers, designers and SEO content writers can all use Divi to build a WordPress website from scratch. They offer you website templates that you can choose from or you can build your own. This plugin makes building a template easy. They operate off of a visual design standpoint. The code you would normally have to understand now is hidden behind a visual interface. This makes it very easy to program the template.
For those of you who – like myself – understand what is happening in the back end, this tool is even more powerful. You can quickly build and duplicate components and content right from the front end. Of course you will still take advantage of custom HTML and CSS, you can just do it more efficiently.
Centupli for Tulsa based Website Design
Centupli offers the best of all worlds. We believe that no one should have to purchase a website that they cannot see. It is hard to imagine spending thousands of dollars on a car without first driving it, but business owners do that all the time with websites. They purchase a website fronting the company thousands of dollars sometimes only to find that it doesn’t look the way they want it to.
Our Tulsa Website Design Process
Here at Centupli we want you to be happy with your website. That is why we offer a free “try before you buy” design subscription. We will sit down with you and strategize for 30 minutes about what you are looking for. Then we take that information and distill it into an amazing and functional website prototype. Then and only then do we talk about pricing. Even then our base website maintenance price costs you less than your morning coffee per month!
For more information call us today at 918-218-228. You can email us at info@centupli.com for more information or with any questions that you may have. As always this post is part of our IT Insecurities blog. We give you the knowledge you can’t get in college (we would know). Sometimes you need someone who has been there and done that. That is us! For more posts like this one check out here or here.