Use Global Design on Your Website

Dec 31
12:48

2008

James Schramko

James Schramko

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Creating the most professional website possible, with the minimum of fuss, in the shortest possible time is the essential, especially if you are planning an e-commerce site.

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Creating a website with a common thread throughout is the hallmark of professionalism. Consider the big name sites you visit and you will know what I mean. It could be as simple as a logo and tagline that appears on each page in the same location,Use Global Design on Your Website Articles or a color theme.

So, how can you implement global design on your website? First of all, choose to design your site with a quality web design program - one of its features will be the ability to create websites with global design. The major decision having been taken, all else can take care of itself as you have the ability to create templates and set global preferences.

For example, suppose you want a website that has some written content, e.g. tutorials and articles, and also an online store and checkout to sell items promoted in those articles.

First, you'll create some templates. You can use the same one for every single item page and article page on the site or use a different template for articles and sales items. When a template is created its easy to start adding your content - a quality website builder will allow this to be done atomatically.

If something should come up at a later stage, and you want to make some changes, then all you have to do is make changes in one place, not on each individual page. That's a real time saver.

Okay, so we've got our design philosophy worked out and those design choices have been applied at a global level so if changes need to be made they can be made easily. The next step is to fill each of those pages with content.

Well, there's an answer for that too. What you need to use is a device called an Import Tool. This tool allows you to use content that you already have and quickly import it into individual web pages. This is a huge time saver when you create websites for different markets.

Now, depending on the format in which you have your preliminary information, there may be some tweaking necessary, but at the very least you will be saving yourself a lot of time, and that's what its all about.

You want to generate the most content possible in the least amount of time, and to do that you need powerful tools.

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