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Give Your Business A More Professional Edge Over The Competition

by Collado on October 9, 2008


What are you waiting for?
You can have a website just like any of these you’ll find bellow for only $380. What are you waiting for? Give your business a more professional and prestigious edge over the competition right now! You’ll be amazed when we show you how you can have professional template customization on anyone of our website templates custom-made to the specific needs and goals of your business for only $380.

Foamers provides a wide range of premium website templates together with professional template customization to fit your individual business needs. You can get just a basic website off of anyone of our templates for $380 that includes the following -  Adding your logo, changing all links (commonly known as buttons), adding a contact form, and up to 5 whole pages of content.

Start by  -  choosing a template. Once your selection is made, contact us with some general information (e.g. some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes etc).

Basic Package -  $380
 -  Customizations: Adding your logo, changing all links, graphics, text, making sure that the contact form works as well as integrating the customers content throughout 5 pages.

How is that possible?
This is possible because, Foamers only uses website templates from the world’s leading providers and every template we customize comes already built and thoroughly tested by a professional web designer, as apposed to hiring some web design studio who’s in-house talent (or lack thereof) is full of print designers who’ve moved over or full of programmers who fell into web design and are nothing more than a bunch of hobbyists.

Consequently, since we do not develop from scratch but because every web template is made by a professional that understand layout, white space, typography and the like; this enables us to pass that savings onto “you”, the client.

Frequently Asked Questions
Whenever we talk to a prospective template customization client we pretty much always get asked some of the same questions such as Do you customize templates bought from other websites, what do I need to do first?

Thus here’s a basic summary of answers to all of the most commonly asked questions. Nevertheless if you have any additional questions please feel free to use the comments form below and I’ll get back to you.

Can I see some examples of your template customization? -  
What if I want to change something afterwards? -  
Do you customize templates bought from other websites?
How do I get started?

What do I need to do first?
Start by choosing a template. Once your selection is made, contact us with some general information (e.g. some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes,). Then at your convenience we can contact you to review your projects objective, answer your pre-sales questions, and provides you with a customization quote.

Can I see some examples of your template customization?
The best way to demonstrate just exactly what we mean when we say, “We will customize any template to meet your individual business needs.” is to show you our template customization portfolio. These before and after pictures will give you an insider’s look on some neat ideas and creative solutions we bring to the templates we customize.


Top Models Marble & Granite
Industry: Interior design remodel

Here is a good example of our Basic HTML Template customization Process; Top Models Marble & Granite included a total of six CSS (cascading style sheets) pages, a photo gallery, logo and custom contact form. The entire project was developed off of Template No. 16980 designed by author Svelte in just little over two weeks and it clearly depicts how regardless of what the budget may be, we take great pains to customize the best website we can for our clients.


Client: Joanna Vargas Skin Care Salon
Industry: Health and beauty

The design and development of the Joanna Vargas Skin Care website involved a full-flow of ideas between the client and the designer… Foamers delivered design and development with a clean simple feel uniting the original site with Template No. 13577 an original CRE Loaded theme by author Di. CRE Loaded software is a powerful CMS (Content managements System) that allows you to manage an online store and drive every page without any prior HTML knowledge.


Client: Paradise Concrete & Hardscape
Industry: Residential hardscaping and landscaping

Working with Flash templates is always very fulfilling and exiting. Paradise Concrete & Hardscape approached us with a request for a much needed redesign that could really accentuate their landscaping company’s image and services. Ultimately they decided to use Template No. 11828 an original design by author Delta. In addition to customizing the Flash site, we implemented Cascading Style Sheets throughout each page to generate larger more crisp and legible text without the use of Flash fonts.


All About Your Garage
Industry: Home improvement

Template No. 7851 is a Flash Site originally designed by author Val. Our client, a garage solutions expert, wanted the website to speaks volumes of the company’s garage solutions and services. Besides the basic Flash template customizations which included integrating the customers content throughout 5 pages, Foamers introduced a series of fluid Flash motion menus highlighting All About Your Garage’s most important products and services.

Do you customise templates bought from other websites?
Of course we do. We can customize any template weather it be ours or not. In addition template customization is always delivered on time and we make sure that you have the most standards compliant web sites possible.

Changes/Modifications
Make revisions to your original service request with up to three rounds of changes at any time during the course of the project.

Sincerely,

Dave Collado
Senior design consultant, Foamers.net

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Become a Sponsor

by Collado on August 28, 2008


If you have a product or service that is a good fit for our community of internet entrepreneurs, we have opportunities for you to advertise. Introducing Tini Ad spots.
Tini Ad 32X32 Icon: (Displayed at all sections+blog - except homepage,)
Zone: Middle Right
*15 ads displayed at the same time

*Est. Impressions 47,000/ad
*Price: $20/Month.

All ads are sold as monthly subscriptions. This means that each month you will pay a fixed price for your banner ad(s). At any time, you may cancel your subscription; however, you ad will still appear on the website until the end of the subscription period that has already been paid.

Get your Tini Ad spot
Placing an ad is easy with BuySellAds.com they accept all major credit cards and PayPal. Your banner must have the EXACT dimensions for this ad (accept JPG’s, GIF’s, & PNG’s under 50K).

You may also choose a larger banners from anywhere you see the “Advertise here” option. The sponsorship payments will be used to help offset the costs associated with running a site like this. If you are interested, or know someone who might-be, click here.

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The Best Flash Site Templates Ever!

by Collado on July 26, 2008


Back in the day, if you had told me some little animation app would catch on as quickly and as suddenly as Flash. I would have said you were an idiot. And if I had told you that Flash would become the design and development community’s number one tool you probably would have said I was an idiot in return.

That’s what makes Flash such an amazing program. Not only did this small animation app come

full circle, but it led also to the creation of some of the most groundbreaking, incredible and right down crazy cool websites you ever did see.

Through my work at premier template customization site (http://foamers.net) I’ve worked with a number of different clients and projects to attain their unique online presence through the template customization process.

Briefly, the template customization process is the method where with we customize the look and feel of the website template and then merge it with your own content files to create a website that’s both unique and can adapt to each individual client’s needs.

And so, over the years I’ve had the opportunity to see and work with both the best of the best and worst of the worst Flash template ever. The top 5 templates of all time are not easy to compile, but since I’m a firm believer in the notion that you, me, all of us have the ability to teach ourselves anything just as long as the inspiration and desire are there, my attempt focuses primarily on website templates which not only brought us some amazing visuals, but that also generously taught me so many neat new tricks.

Do you agree with my selection? Do you think I’m being too uncritical of the ones I’ve picked, or which one do you think is the best? Lets talk about it – add comment


Number 5

I really like the whole two toned very retro atmosphere here and specially the little mp3 player at the bottom because I can take that whole movie clip and reuse it on any other projects. Template No. 20164 is an original design by author Oldman. Ever since it’s release date it has had 1 download. And there’s even a non-Flash version also included with this template.


Number 4

This one really blows you away. It’s a perfect example of what Flash 8’s all new filters were created for. I love how the animation transitions perfectly smooth, and the blurring on the big numbers for each page its really neat also.

And not only do you get the source FLA files, but also all of the PSD files are available too so you can look at all the different layers, filters and masks that went into the making. Template No. 18708 is an original design by author Maxwell. Ever since it’s release date it has had 1 download.


Number 3

There’s nothing really too fancy about this one maybe other than that whole panoramic slide with the scene effect. What I really like about it is that the author made full use of vector graphics, as well as some very useful ScrollPane components. Template No. 18668 is an original design by author Modlin.


Number 2

Perhaps the most radical innovation in Flash as far as website templates concern is XML Flash Sites, this is just one I choose only because it came with a gallery but there’s lots more and they all come equipped with a system that allows you to edit its content without having to use the Adobe Flash software.

So you don’t have to learn any Flash you simply edit the template’s content from a text editor; so if you’re just starting to learn about Flash and would like to see hands-on how Flash and XML work together this is the perfect way to play around and start getting your hands dirty. Template No. 20234 is an original design by author Cowboy.


Number 1

Drum roll, please… “Straight in at number on!” Ok, here we go… the best Flash template ever is Template No. 20361 an original design by author Hugo and one of the true innovations in cutting-edge web design! It’s based on ActionScript3 and made with the PaperVision 3D engine (An open source 3D engine for Flash), which features an impressive 3D interface as well as a wide range of other really neat stuff.

Just like the method used in XML Flash Sites this one allow you to circumvent the need to modify FLA source files whenever you need to change some text or move stuff around etc, etc.

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Help Yourself To Webmasters Tools (Google Webmaster Tools Now In cPanel)

by Collado on July 18, 2008


Great news for all Webmasters around, Google opens their Web Master Tools doors to the public. Last November, the search giant announced a pilot program whereby all Go Daddy users got free and easy access to all Webmaster Tools has to offer, right from their account management panels in Go Daddy. Now they’re taking that program and bringing it to the peps!

They’re calling it Google’s Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program, and through it qualifying hosting service providers from around the world can now make use of Google APIs to provide Webmaster Tools (now available in 26 different languages) to their customers at no cost. Affiliates can be recognized by the shiny Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider badge that they can display on their sites.

Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider badge

With access to the Google APIs hosting service provider can now integrate Google Webmaster Tools into your customer’s control panel, so customers can create accounts and submit Sitemaps all without ever leaving your service. From a customers standpoint this is awesome too because it’ll help then understand their traffic and diagnose potential problems by providing insight into how Google crawls and indexes their site.

What if my hoster isn’t offering this yet? No problem. You can still sign up for Web Master Tools the old fashion way simply hop on over to Google click Business Solutions scroll down click on Webmaster Central and then sign in to Webmasters Tools, if you don’t already have an account don’t worry it’s totally free and there’s no obligation.

In addition your account allows you to include as many domains as you want and lets you share info about your web pages directly with Google to help improve the site’s visibility. Similarly you’ll also get up-to-date helpful articles, webmasters guidelines and technical information specifically designed to make your site more search and user friendly.

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Customize Your Template -   Foamers provides a wide range of premium website templates together with professional template customization to fit your individual business needs.

Start by  -  choosing a template. Once your selection is made, contact us with some general information (e.g. Template ID, some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes etc).

Basic Package -  $380 -  Customizations: Adding your logo, changing all links, graphics, text, making sure that the contact form works and up to 5 whole pages of content.