Posted on Sunday, 30th November 2008 by Jeff
Even if you’re not a web designer, you can still create a template by hiring a web designer to make it for you. Considering how good the template looks, your initial investment will most likely be worth it in the end. The reason I chose to talk about templates is because they’re much easier and less expensive to make than widgets or software programs. Since the information on a template gets indexed by the search engines, and can be seen by all the visitors to that website, you’ll benefit more than if you created a custom widget or software program.
The first step to creating a free web template that will go viral is to choose which website program or script you want the template designed for. Some good examples would be Wordpress, Vbulletin, and PHP Link Directory. While you can create just a plain HTML or CSS template for anything, you’ll probably benefit more from a template that is made for a particular website program that has been proven successful.
After you’ve chosen the program, you want to find the right web designer for the job who can make you something “unique”. There are many web designers who specialize in making templates for specific scripts. These are the best designers because they already know what they’re doing. Even if a designer is good, they probably won’t know what they’re doing after they have the general design made up. You can also hire somebody separately to cut and install the template if this is the case.
Once you’ve created the template, you want to add your “copyright” and “license’ to the template which outlines the rules that all users have to follow. This is basically just one or two links on the bottom of the template back to the websites of your choice, and a notepad file which states that the user cannot remove these links. If a user really likes your template but doesn’t want to include the links, you can offer an affordable option to remove the branding.
The last thing you’ll have to do is distribute the template to all the major websites which distribute templates for the website program you chose. For example, you could distribute a Wordpress template on sites like wpSkins.org or on the actual Wordpress.org website. You can even contact bloggers who write about free templates to write about yours. If the website program is popular, you won’t have a problem finding website to distribute it for you. The more websites that distribute your template the better. If everything goes well you could expect thousands of free one-way links going back to your websites in your copyright as well as tons of free traffic.
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