Using Templates

Using templates when making a web site can make the job so much easier. Rather than have to worry about weather or not your html will match up on all the pages, you just type the html once and define your editable regions once. The editable regions are where you can add whatever you want on different pages. And when it comes to the navigation bar, the templates are useful in the way that you only have to link your buttons once. You don’t have to go to each page and link every button. That could be a pain if you have around 3 or more pages, I’ve seen sites with over 15 pages, could you imaging linking all those buttons individually?

Templates can also be a bad idea sometimes. Yes, they do help with the conformity of all your pages, but they do make it difficult to add different creative flare to separate pages. When you make your template and its editable regions, only the editable regions can be changed throughout the different pages, but the rest of the page is going to look exactly the same as the others.

I, myself like using templates, I think they are so much easier than the alternative and a lot quicker. When you are doing a job for someone and you have a deadline to meet, quicker is definitely nicer. and when it comes to adding conformity over creative flare, I’d rather my site look neat rather than have no flow.