Free Guide to Website Templates

You can have a professional looking website in a matter of minutes without having to pay a web designer fees of hundreds to thousands of dollars ...

Free download website template sites are available everywhere on the web. They can be easily found by typing "free website templates" on popular search engines. You can preview hundreds to thousands of cool topics to match the type of product or service you provide.

Save time and money

Not only will you save costs, but you'll complete your website much faster than if you had to build one from scratch. If you have any working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Photoshop, using these free website templates should be a breeze ... If you're not familiar with these skills, you can learn the basics of free online tutorials. It will only take a little longer to build your site than someone who already has the experience.

This short guide will introduce you to what you can do with these free website templates.

Starting

Before doing anything, you should read the rules these sites have for using their templates. Usually they will allow you to modify the templates and redistribute them if you give them credit as the original source ... And you don't necessarily need to link directly to your site.

They will allow you to remove your link from templates. But, what they don't want you to do is repackage the templates and resell them. That's only a fair condition to using your templates if you consider you didn't pay for them and they gave you something that would have cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, in individual web designer fees.

High quality themes

Don't be fooled by the word "free". Many of these templates have a contemporary professional look ... And the way to do this is with the included high-quality stock images or photos. If you build these templates from scratch, you'll usually find these images from sites that offer stock photos that can then make you pay royalties for using them.

Instant download

With some free website template sites, you won't need to give your email address or sign up. They will not force you to subscribe to a newsletter and send you spam. You can click a download link on your site and immediately save a compressed file to your hard drive.

Everything you need

As an example, within these compressed files you will find an index.htm file, a style.css file, a PSD file, and an image folder containing images. Here's a breakdown of what these files are for:

1. Index.htm: This is the basic template that contains the HTML code. In this file, you can add links that go to other pages within your site or links that go outside. To keep the theme or design within your site, you will need to copy this file, modify it and rename it for each of the different pages you want your site to have.

2. Style.css - This is the file that controls the look of your site. In this file, you can change the font type, color and size. You can also modify or add elements such as background colors, borders, spacing, alignments, positioning and more.

3. PSD: This is the graphic file that you can modify. You can open this file in Photoshop to customize it. For example, you can overlay text over a header image with your website name. Since many people use these templates, it is a good idea to make your site unique by slightly changing the elements in the provided graphics.

4. Images folder: This folder contains the images related to the theme of the template you chose. In addition to images of objects or people, it can include buttons, rounded corners, borders, or dividers. The files are in .gif or .jpeg format.