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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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Now that we have (haven’t we?) finally buried the myth behind custom web design vs template customization by showing you how every web designer custom or not uses some form of template regardless and that the only real difference is in the tremendous amount of money you’ll pay to have a site custom made, may be we can now move on to search engine optimization and show you how to generate some real traffic over to them pages; after all aesthetics have no real relevance in search.

In this post Dyfed Lloyd Evan gives you some real insight on tuning-up your site’s PR and explains in layman’s terms how all that works and shows you lots of other helpful hints on how to publicize your site.

For the moment, at least, it seems that Google has won the ’search engine wars’. The search behemoth now has over 78% of the search engine market cornered. This means that 78% of all searches performed on the internet are done via Google.

At the heart of Google’s strategy to delivering search results is an algorithm called ‘Page Rank‘. This is named after Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and is an attempt at measuring the popularity of a web page based, primarily, on the number and quality of links coming into a site. It is this algorithm that, ultimately, determines your site’s rankings within Google’s search results.

How Does Google Work? Over the years many website owners have tried to claim (some even doing so in court) that Google’s algorithm was somehow ‘unfairly’ keeping them from the top of the search engine results. The truth is that Google, as a private company, is not beholden to the millions of website owners who all want their sites to rank well in the search engines. Rather, Google is beholden to its stock-holders and needs to be seen as delivering value to them.

Google needs to earn profits and the company does this by selling advertising. The company has determined that the best way to deliver value for its advertisers is to have the best and most relevant websites be the ones that are easiest to find on the web. Thus Google’s revenues from advertising are tied to Google’s website ranking systems.

What’s Google’s Real relevance in Search? The question of Google’s real relevance in terms of how much search and other traffic comes to a webstie has been a vexed one. I asked this question of a number of my colleagues. We all have large websites in different domains and we pooled our information for the first 6 months of 2008 to arrive at the following figures…

Total search traffic 54.8% of which:
53.7% Google Search Traffic
40.2% Other main search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, Windows Live etc)
6.1% Other search engines (the tiny ones)

The remaining 45.2% of our traffic all came from link sources: articles, blogs, recommendations, forum posts and links from people referring our websites.

So, only just over half the web traffic comes from the search engines and almost half comes from other links! However, the good news is that the way to garner more search engine traffic and more general ‘link referral’ traffic is one and the same!

How to Rank Well As was mentioned above, Google’s ranking system works with both the number and quality of in-bound links. One of the best ways of getting these links is to write and submit articles. Many article directories have excellent page rank and lots of site visitors. This means that submitting articles and including your URLs in them are a great way of gaining more links to your site. But they’re also a wonderful, direct, way of getting traffic to your site (remember the traffic figures above).

There are, however, a few key SEO considerations to take into account when writing your articles.

Article Links and SEO One big advantage of writing articles is that you can define your own ‘anchor text‘. This is the text in the link that defines what the person looking at the link sees. It also gives the search engine spider following the link an indication of what the page it’s navigating to is all about. This is why you should never, ever, put something like ‘click here’ in your links!

You link text should be related to the subject of the page you’re linking to, as this makes it more relevant to the search engines. Now, if at all possible the text of your links should also match the key words you are targeting on your web pages as these give the keywords more relevance and will improve your rankings for them.

Also, the more competitive the keyword you are targeting the more work you will have to put into ranking for that term. Indeed, if you are just starting and a keyword is very competitive (’computer’, for example) then you may never, realistically, be able to rank for it. But if you target a keyword like ‘extreme computer construction’ you are far more likely to be ranked for that term. Be clever and don’t try and bite off more than you can chew.

Indeed, the more competitive the keyword you are targeting the more work you will have to put into ranking for that keyword. In this case it may well take you many weeks before you will notice any effects from your article writing efforts.

But for less competitive keywords you may notice a jump of several tens of positions in your rankings with as few as 3 articles. In this case, you get out what you are willing to put in.

One thing to note is that Google takes not of all the link text that comes through to your page. If you have more than 60% of the links with exactly the same text this marks-up a red flag an your rankings may well drop. As a result you should vary the link text and you also need to alter the text surrounding the links.

Given enough time and commitment you can use article marketing to elevate any single web page on your website into multiple top spots in Google’s SERP rankings. However, this does mean that you need to write and publish articles on a daily basis. Few people have that level of commitment to their websites.

About the Author
Dyfed Lloyd Evans runs the Celtnet Articles Directory where you can freely submit high quality articles. If you really want high quality back-links to your sight then you need to check out his free eCourse on How to Maximize your Web Traffic.

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Is it true that website templates are indeed inherently deficient? - If such reasoning were true, however, why would website template usages continue to be such a reliable resource for the entire web design industry itself?

The truth is, used properly, in union with professional template customization, website templates can provide you with a unique and high quality design at just a fraction of the cost of hiring someone else to do a custom design starting from scratch.

In fact, whether they advertise it or not every web designer custom or not uses some form of website template. Just as a wise contractor makes good use of a blueprint to guide the construction of a building to its successful completion, every web designer also uses a template or basis as his or her guide in creating a unique and well-organized web site.

What then, are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using a website template? - Two clear advantages are time and money. Typically speaking it can take many days for a good designer to create a preliminary mockup of such quality.

Also, consider the time necessary to piece the original design into slices and the actual rendering of the design onto HTML and resources spent validating that code on all major browsers. The cost of which will most certainly be passed onto you, the client.

On the contrary, however, every website template is like an almost finished web page that has been preliminary designed, sliced and pull together with all the graphics and necessary coding so as to help you put your website online without difficulty and in no time.

Just what are you getting at here? - With that in mind, I’m implying that since we don’t start from scratch but build on pre-made website templates, we are faster and way less expensive than hiring a regular web design studio.

What’s more, many of our prospective clients are amazed when we show them how they can have professional template customization on anyone of our website templates custom-made to the specific needs and goals of their business for only $380.

How is that possible? - This is possible because, we only use 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.

You wouldn’t want a designer who’s passionate about PHP? You can get a PHP developer. You want a designer who’s passionate about design. You don’t want to be haggling neither, no, not if you could see beforehand what it is you are buying and know exactly how much it’ll cost you.

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.

In addition, you don’t need any special skills you simply choose a template hop over to the contact form and give us some general information (e.g. some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes etc.). Then at your convenience we can contact you to review your projects objective and tell you more about the process.

Is it true however, that website templates are indeed resold? - Ok, yes, our web templates can be sold repeatedly to different customers, however, we thoroughly track and show you the total number of times a particular template is downloaded and we make every effort to ensure that the total number of downloads never exceeds five.

In addition, there are now over 3,000,000,000 webpages online according to statistics on www.google.com so there is a very little chance that you will ever find the same design twice.

But, be that as it may, template customization is the only sure-ways to have a website that is both affordable and unique. Template customization allow you change the templates color scheme, insert texts, substitute graphics, logo, titles, Meta tags etcetera, etcetera…

The result is a unique product that works intuitively to help your customers identify your brand, which in turn is what truly defines branding in the classic sense of the term meaning to establish a unique identity. And that shouldn’t have to cost a fortune.

So does the use of web templates present an insurmountable obstacles or irremediable technical issue, or can web templates, along with template customization, provide you with a unique and high quality design? I’m sure you’ll agree with the latter.

Can I see some template customization examples? - Thought you’d never ask! We encourage you to take a moment of your time to see our template customization portfolio this will really help you see some neat ideas and creative solutions we bring to the templates we customize.

Should you wish to acquire more information about our template customization services simply jump on over to the contact form and tell us what you think.

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Making your own template customizations is easy we can help you by providing the tools needed in doing this through comprehensive template editing tutorials and articles such as these. Yet we are aware that running your small business is foremost in your mind.

Consequently we can help you focus on that. Our basic template customizations package is very affordable. In addition we will plan and consult with you every step of the way to determine what your website needs. Our template customizations are always delivered on time and we make sure that you have the most standards complient web sites possible. In this article we will teach you a number basic HTML rules that you may very easily apply to change or update the look and feel of anyone of these website templates.

Are you a beginner struggling to learn basic HTML? Or maybe you have a template that you want to make changes too, but you are not sure how to proceed, well this article is just for you. Many people are put off building their own website or changing templates because they think that learning HTML very difficult. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Others also believe that creating your own website means purchasing expensive software. Yes there are many different programs out there that can be used to create a website for you, but basically you can do it all for free if you are willing to spend a little time learning the basics of HTML.

All over the Internet you can find websites offering template that you can download to your computer and add your own content too. Some of these templates are better than others, but even if you do find a high quality template, you still need to know some basic HTML otherwise website will have exactly the same design as everyone else who downloaded that same template.

Like everything else in life learning basic html just requires the right information.

So many times I have been asked by visitors to my HTML for beginners website how do I make my words bold? Or how do I make my text bigger? Using simple tags before and after the text involved will do this.

Here are some more Basic HTML Tags to get you started: -

< *b>Types the text in bold.< */b> This tag will make your words appear bold.

< *i>This should be italicized.< */i> This will give your words an italic look.

< *u>Underline this text.< */u> This text will be underlined

< *hr /> This forms a horizontal line. ___________________

< *font color="######">Change color.Text here< */font> This will change the color of (1) word. This (######) should be placed with the code for the color you want to use. For example if you wanted your words to be red the signs would be replaced with #ff0000

So your code will now look like this and your text will be red < *font color="#ff0000">Change color.Text here< */font>

< *small>This should be in small.< */small> Make your text small

Combining Basic HTML Tags

Perhaps you may want to combine some of the basic HTML codes above. Lets say you want to make your text bold and italic. This is what your code will look like.

< *b>< *i>Text in bold and italic< */i>< */b>

Notice we have put both the bold tag < *b> and the italic tag < *i> together to give us our bold and italic text. These combinations can also be applied to color. If you would like to make your text underlined and green, this is how the tag should appear.

< *u>< *font color="#00ff00">Change color of 1 word.Text here< */font>< */u>

In all of the above code the * should be removed to make your code work correctly. The * is used to allow you to see the actual code but must be removed when placed on your site.

These are just some of the simple things you can do to change the look and feel of your website. To learn more why not check out some of the online basic HTML tutorials to get you started and in no time at all you will be past the basics of HTML and onto pro HTML coding.

About the Author
Basic HTML is not difficult to learn. Visit Web Monster at his brand new blog http://html-code-for-beginners.blogspot.com to learn more about basic HTML coding.

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