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If you plan to build your own website you'll probably want to make your own website template. A template will keep all your pages consistent Wholesale Blue Jays Shirts , and it will save you a bucket load of time.

You set everything up once, and then you use that webpage template as the basis for every page on your site. All you have to do is plug your content, page title and so on into the template and save it with an appropriate filename. Then use the template again for your next page.

There are different ways to make a web template though, and lots of conflicting advice.

You can code directly in HTML, or you can use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) software program. You can lay out your pages using tables Wholesale Blue Jays Jerseys , or you can use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You can use the default styling, style everything with HTML, or use CSS for styling. You can paste your navigation bar and footer into each page, or build them in separate files and use includes or programming to integrate them seamlessly into your pages.

For the average person who's new to websites, using a wysiwyg program with tables for the layout makes the project feasible. But you'll read that tables are not cool anymore and wysiwyg programs are flawed and produce bad code.

So what is a newbie website builder to do? What is the best way for you to make a website template?

If you're building one or two websites for yourself I believe you really don't need to know everything a professional programmer knows. You can build a hugely successful website with a wysiwyg program using tables for the layout.

There are some "must haves" though. You must be able to update your navigation bar easily. You must be able to update the styling easily. You must be able to update your footer easily if you have one. And it makes sense to be able to easily add an advertisement or notice on every page of your website.

Having to do those things a page at a time is no joke with a ten page website Cheap Blue Jays Hats , and a special form of torture with a hundred page website.

To make life easier you can use an include file (called a virtual include or server side include) to update pages easily. It's a separate file that you put content into. Then you link to it on your web pages so that it is automatically included in those pages when someone looks at them on the internet. You should have one each for your navigation bar and your footer, maybe one for your header, and it can be nice to have one that can be used for that site-wide ad. If you wanted to put "5 day sale, 25% off everything" on every page of your site, an include file makes it easy.

Using style sheets makes changing page styles easy. You may not think that's so important Cheap Blue Jays Hoodies , but wait until you're 50 pages into your website and you suddenly think "Oh my goodness, what have I done? Those red headlines look so 1995", or "I didn't realize visitors couldn't read those fonts very well!"

A style sheet is a separate file that contains all the instructions for the styling for your website. If you want to make a change you just change one file and that will update every page on your website. It takes minutes to change styles rather than days.

You can specify different styles for different headlines. Body text can be different to the headlines. Colors and the text size of the navbar can be totally different to the body text. You can set page colors, table colors, you can even put a border around your pages if you want to. If you decide you don't like the styling it's easy to change.

Even the navbar can be built using style sheets and tables. You don't have to have fancy flyout menus or beautifully crafted buttons. A simple text based navbar is quite adequate [url=http://www.cheapml