Your blog or website design is as important aspect as your website content. Producing a quality website content is the most important activity the webmaster shall do. Not only content plays major role in popularizing your website but good aesthetics helps as well. Many times you might have observed that the website shows off great content, but you are not really impressed with the looks of the website and somehow that website does not make an impression on your mind; where as similar website with same quality of content but better aesthetics certainly makes an impression.

Not only the content attracts you towards that website, but you also remember that specific site due to it’s special appearance. I would not really need to write anymore about importance of great template you might be using for your website but if you have not really used any special template for your website, then it’s time to steal some time from your schedule and really put it into searching some good website templates.

Just to make sure that you learn from your research, I would have left you on yourself but I developed this blog to bring some useful websites for you guys from various niches. Normally I prefer to bring you free services and goodies; dreamtemplates.com almost come into the same category as they are providing you whooping 300 website templates for free. Just look at their product categories, and you would find website templates for almost all needs. All the categories are divided into major categories like free website templates, corporate templates, flash, website templates and it does not stop only here but you would see powerpoint templates and word templates as well.

All the categories are further divided into actual domains of the websites wiz. automobile, law etc. so you would not really browse a lot for your intended search of website templates. Free website templates are certainly a thing to try if you are establishing your new website and don’t want to spend a lot. There are couple of things to keep in mind while selecting your free website template though -

• The chances of same template appearing on similar website are high than you going for a paid website template.
• You might want to change your website templates often depending on your niche [and if you really don't care about branding of website using the template]
• It’s makes more sense to pay for a website subscription than individual personalized website design at the same cost.

Not everyone would go for it, but whoever want to go for paid website templates, you have unlimited access to thousands of websites templates at dreamtemplates.com for only discounted price of $59.95 per year instead of original $149.

Even it has something in store for webmasters along with the huge inventory of templates. Their affiliate program can get you good 30% for each sale taking place through your reference. If you decide the to buy their paid template, you can recover that amount by referring three more buyers and you get these thousands of templates for free. Hope you find this resource pretty useful for yourself and your clients.

You know I have been using couple of blog review services for my other not so high profile blogs and one of them is buyblogreviews that is pretty new and trying to establish. I would review them certainly for your benefits later some time but one of the advertiser website attracted my attention in there. No matter they accept it or not, but I was going to review that advertiser’s service for you here anyways. And as they accepted and request me to add the tag saying it’s a sponsored one, don’t think I am going to write all goody goody in the review. I would still give you my honest opinion about this service as always. One of the reason to review it here today was - it’s a Free CMS and as most of the readers here are bloggers or webmasters, I would find it appropriate to bring it up here for you.

Coincidently, I am also looking for a good CMS for one of my domain names recently bought and I would prefer not to start a wordpress blog there but have a content management system instead. I tried Zoomla in past, but it could not impress me much and since then I am looking for something that interests me.

I am currently registering for this new free UCoZ CMS and will use it for one my new websites. The things that attracted me to UCoZ CMS are modules like Photo Album, Links Catalog, Web Polls etc majorly. That’s not easily implementable in WordPress blogs and it’s better that you use CMS if you would like to develop such website. That’s my plan is and I need photo album for that website certainly.

To use this free CMS, you need to just register with them and it’s then easy to manage from admin control panel. If you don’t have your own domain name, they also provide you a sub-domain on one of their top level domain names that are provided in the drop down while you register.

Apart from the features I mentioned, you would also get these modules with this free CMS – Blog, Forum, Ad Board, Guestbook, Tag Board (mini chat), Publisher (a catalog of articles), File Catalog, Site News, Web Polls, Email Forms, Tests, FAQ, and Site Users. With so many modules available, one can create a feature rich website with very good designs. By the way, meanwhile if you would like to check out what all features each module has, feel free to visit them and check it out, meanwhile I would set up a sample website using their CMS. By the way, they are free for the limited disk space they are providing and if you allow their UCoZ copyright message at bottom or there is some payment involved that I would discuss later.

Alright, here you have a sample website I quickly created to have you look at the features and design. While using the control panel, I could come up with some points that would be helpful for you -

• Ease of selecting modules while setting up the website. I have taken only 5 min to set it up.
• Lots of website designs to choose from, I have chosen one quickly for me to setup but you can take good enough time for your website set up and check out all of them.
• The modules that I selected are pretty easy to use, and I have shown use of blog and photo album as sample use at my UCoz CMS sample website
• The Ad Board is fantastic idea, you can use it for many purposes, I am thinking to use it as local directory of businesses.
• The website setup is free with 200 mb disk space and UCoZ copyright message. For any additional diskspace like 400 mb, 2500 mb, 5000 mb, there are monthly charges involved. The maximum disk space is available for $9.99 only, so it’s not really lot of money incase you really need extra disk space. Removing the copyright message “Powered by UCoZ” it an costly affair though, as it costs $4.99 per month.
• The deep URLs in modules don’t seem to be search engine optimized

If you are new webmaster, I would suggest you to give it a try and build something innovative using this CMS. I really liked the features they have provided. Let me see if I can build a real website in there and share with you as a case study.

You read couple of my earlier posts on blog about web design that I liked, but Robert’s blog is something different. First of all, Robert has adopted a magazine style blog design that is really appealing for me. This is much different than our regular looking blog themes and designs. I quietly sneaked in to see if that design is available for free or I get any reference but it looks like Robert designed the blog on his own. If I get a chance, I would not mind asking him the price for this magazine style theme he used on his design blog.

If you have a look at his blog which I would suggest you should, you would come to know Robert’s cool attitude. I can sense that from the line that got my attention

Just because I publish a page today doesn’t mean it’s worse than a page that was published five years ago and now has many links to it.

And this is where you get an idea on what he writes about. You can very well expect quality articles on designing blog along with some awesome articles on search engine optimization. And after reading the archives and articles from different categories, I could understand where the featured blog post comes from “Robert, Using link popularity to boost your position”. Now what I mean by featured blog post, because it seems to be dynamic and the featured posts come at the header position.

This was all about goody goody stuff, but somewhere I found out that Robert does not want to loose the PR juice to his loyal commentators, I am not sure whether it’s the blog design issue but top commentators have not be given due credit in return for being loyal to this blog and commenting often. If you see the top 10 users list on left should be actually linking back to the commentators’ websites. If it could be changed, I am sure there would be moderate number of comments for this quality design blog.

Overall, I would say it’s worth visiting Robert and get maximum blog juice out of his design blog.

As anyways, I touched to the subject of web design companies, let me quickly have a round at a web design blog as well so you people who are interested in web design should be having something to read over this week. Robert at stylishdesign.com has a good blog in making on web design. He has some  pretty interesting  blog posts like Top 3 web design basics,  HTTP requests and responses and many more. This post on issues in the world of Web Designing brought up a well known opinion difference between two groups of web designers. Few of them like to use a method of designing that others might not be finding correct. Whether to use liquid layout or fixed layout, whether to use CSS or tables and the debate on this goes on.

The blog certainly has been touching variety of topics related to web design and development and you would find good amount of read but looks like many of the articles are not written by Robert but some of them look like PLR articles. Whatever it is, as long as I get something good to read, I am happy.

I always get mesmerized with the website designs that attract eyeballs. And that’s what exactly happened while I had a look at this website IKEA – Be brave not beige – it was not only the design but the use of brain behind that idea was impressive. That website shows apartment windows, and clicking on any of those windows, it would take you inside and show the interior decoration. You keep on playing with the interior design with your mouse, and you can add rugs, change bedding, put on the fabric on table top. You should experience it yourself, it’s very well developed and designed website and worth mentioning here.This website is developed by a web design, development agency in London, datadial.net. If you look at this company’s website, you would find that the company is versatile and has it’s presence in almost all areas of web development and promotion. Internet marketing is one of the areas where they not only provide client with web development but can also take it further to promote client’s website to establish it on the web.

When you are company in web development niche, you have to be at par in the competition and provide client something that others cannot provide or competitors are not even aware of it. And here datadial.net is surpassing the competitors. How they are doing it? Let’s see what they are doing differently.

The web development company gathers the requirements and starts design and development. Until they finish testing the developed project, and make it full proof to present online on a web address, that web address is not ready for promotion and marketing, isn’t it what you think? No, they do it differently. Their Search Engine Optimisation Services start the promotion of the website in search engines way before the date of actual launch of the website. So the time in development phase of your website is used for promoting your website for relevant and desired keywords for your website. This is where they have found the key to success in business.

It’s not all in theory, they have practically implemented it for a start up clothes brand company, Chin Choi which was based on Data dial’s ecommerce software and saved lot of cost on expensive PPC Adwords campaigns in early days. The website was appearing in Top 10 in search engine result pages for relevant keywords anyways.

So Internet marketing is not all about following the proven success but going out of the way and delivering quality at the end to the customer with less cost in same time. Do you have anything different in mind? Let me know here in comments.