Why templates? Simple. YOU CHOOSE. We design. We optimize. YOU SAVE. A LOT. Isn't it about time that you chose your template?

Imagine your website as a magazine. Like Cosmopolitan. Imagine you are reading a story and you decide that the picture going with the story is not good enough. So you decide to rip it out and replace it with another one.

Or even better, you change the wording so that it makes more sense. And then you have a flash of inspiration and you decide to add an extra page material. And to top it all off, imagine that you can simply close this magazine and every person in the world can somehow now see a newer edited version. By you!

Well, you have the heart of CMS or Content Management Systems for websites right there.

A CMS should allow YOU, the end-user, the ability to easily edit the content of your live website and to re-design the editable areas confidently.


The Goldtree Website Designer has extensive experience in the 3 most popular content management systems for web site editing, namely:

SITEFINITY Website CMS

A relatively new player in the CMS industry boasting extensive Microsoft ASP support. This is a personal favorite at Goldtree due to its ease of use and its extremely sexy interface. To read more about Sitefinity.

WORDPRESS Website CMS

The 5th of November 2010 marked 32 million users officail users of Wordpress CMS. WORDPRESS's popularity stems from its blog-abilty. Press wordpress to go.

JOOMLA! Website CMS

The Joomla CMS is easily the most robust feature Content Managemnent System with a monstrous community of followers... It allows certain arward winning features that sets it apart. Press Joomla to go.


THE APPEAL OF CUSTOM DESIGN:
I have for a long time often compared getting blogs to the difference between a custom designed suit and one bought from a store. While there is the allure of cheapness, lurking behind that is the frustration that comes with extra feature customization and configuration onto these blogs. Yes they are popular. But can you imagine an entrprenuer beligured with the tasks of settingup his business and then having oto cotenwit the frustration of designing their own blog to post products and matrials online?

For every different client, there is a different solution to their web needs. While a full blown website may be necessary for a shoe company, a blog may be more suited to a journalist. This means that at the end of the day, there is no size fits all. In theory one can mass produce templates and have them variate along certain lines up to the degree that through minor customizations the individual will find their satisfaction. This can be seen through cms customizations on the likes of Wordpress which has a monster following of more than 40 million users worldwide. The long and short of it is that simply because Wordpress and other custom "themeing" providers exist, they are still a very small percentage of the global web site count. The current websites online count is sitting at between 340 million and 600 million. So that in itself transtaes into that while blogging is by far the fastest route to which websites are being put online, one cannot brush aside the influence of up-from-scratch design of websites. It still counts for over 400 million websites!