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Templates takes skills too!

Just when I thought using templates is as brainless as it can get, I see
people purchasing,
yes, purchasing instead of using those
free ones and my
GOD! They look like shi*! The bottom line is, you still need to know HTML and
preferably, Flash too, as some templates comes with Flash that WILL need
editing. See my template based site here. Yes, you can purchase it but please,
at least have something in mind before you key in those credit card of yours for
a purchase. Practice with the free templates, they come in PSD (Photoshop) and
HTML format. Then learn Flash! It’s may be easy, well, a template, I key in what
I want here, here and here, save and viola! Wait a min, why is this table bigger
than what I need, hey how to change that? I don’t know HTML/ There you go,
you’re stuck! You will also need (not saying I do but I think I fair quite well)
an eye for designing too! Bright red does not go well with Grey for christ sake
and trust me, white is the background color to manupilate with more colors. OK,
you just read a David
Siegal book but hey, that doesn’t make you a designer.

I know of kids 13-15 who dare freelance website creation for people and the
website is well, not much to look at. Hey, talking about that, some advertising
here won’t hurt anyone, will I? Hope on to etegration.NET for site creation,
development or I prefer to call "portalisation". So, get your HTML, basic Flash
(if not advance, learn actionscript if you must!), some photo editing software
like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop (I personally don’t really know that well, I am
more of a Paint Shop Pro guy), it’ll come in handy, learn Frontpage, Dreamweaver
too as these WYSIWYG editors are god-send, save you time when you don’t wanna
fiddle around with the codings. Then pick from tons of HTML based editors

here. Or use what I like,
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My, is this turning into an article instead of a quick "Opinion"
post. So,
to end it here, a template site may be or seem easy enough but if you ain’t got
the skills, it’s better you create something newbie looking, everyone will
understand AND don’t think you’ve learnt some Dreamweaver and know nuts of HTML,
you can create sites. There’s also the backend of a site creation such as
configuring an Apache machine. Now, don’t you have tons to learn? me? I know
I’ve tons and I am enjoying every minute of it. In the meantime, some
CS to de-stress that
day’s work…