Is It Good To Use Stock Templates For Website Design?

Saurabh Tiwary | 3rd June 2016

We come across so many arguments whether it is a good idea to employ a design template in our website design. In my initial days of web designing, I was fond of using beautiful Stock Templates and WordPress themes to experiment the actual behavior of the website. However, through the availability of a number of design tools and implementations, so many things have changed in the field of web and graphic designing.

Now, I would discuss few contrasting features of Stock Templates and the Custom Website Design that can definitely help you make a better choice between the two.

Stock Templates

Stock Templates are often perceived to be economical and simple to design.
Several reasons to employ these templates are:-

Can Be Used As Design Inspiration:- They can provide an inspiration on colors, layouts and features. One can’t actually copy the attributes of such templates but it gives an idea to the web designer about the look of the design.
Inexpensive:- Stock Templates are inexpensive and sometimes free which lets you run your website in no time. If your budget is fairly low and you want your website to be running as soon as possible, Stock Templates should be your first choice.
Development Task Is Minimized:- As there is not much to alter in the Stock Templates, development time is minimized.

The Downside

Unless you pay a huge price, the company won’t assure a distinct template design for your website. It might be possible that some other websites might be using the same design template for their website.
Your customization options will be limited through Stock Templates
Some of the templates are not carefully coded that may often face search engine compatibility issues.

Custom Website Design

Custom designs are considered very expensive. However, the budget of a customized website totally depends on the features and functionality that need to be incorporated into the design.

Need of a custom website design:-

Unique Design:- The advantage of having a custom website design is that websites are exclusively targeted towards achieving a specific design. This ensures that no other firms will have same design specifications.

Search Engine Friendly:- Another aspect of such design scheme is that these websites are designed as per the standard of search engines. It makes the website more accessible over the internet.

Serves Company’s Requirement:- Custom websites are designed considering the need of the client and expert designers always ensure the specified functionality.

Scalability:- In case you have planned what you might want in the future for your website, a good web designer may take this into consideration as they select the technologies accordingly to use while building the website.

Conclusion

While deciding if a custom web design works for you or if a website template is the better choice, make sure that your business must stand out from the crowd and be memorable. In both the cases, you need to do some work to get up there in the search engine results.

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