You Have to Dress The Part in Public:
The look of your site is important. Not only to you and your business but also to your visitors. Many user's first impression determines if you are worth their attention.
You don't need a design that competes with the big brands. You need a best that illustrates you are a serious profession that is dedicated to your business. It needs to be well organized, have a touch of attention grabbing details and most importantly a good layout. A professional looking design should make a statement about you and your business but it has to make it clear where to find the important information on what you do! It also better deliver your marketing message, and it helps to tell people what you would like them to do while they are there!
DotNetNuke (DNN) uses a Skin for Page Design:
The Content Management System (CMS) I use to maintain my client's web sites is DotNetNuke (DNN). DNN uses a template based design for pages called a skin. As you can image, a skin can be designed with many page templates to meet your requirements. You can create a simple one column page template, a three column page template with footer columns; you know, the works! The benefit with a skin is that you use them to determine the layout all pages on the site once you have installed a skin package.
The second part of a skin package is called a container. The container is like a skin for a module (Building Block), which allows you to change the way just that Building Block looks with in the skin's page. Of course this means that you can apply it site wide, a specific section of the site or to just one special Building Block on your site.
There's More Than One Way to Skin a Site:
- Free Skins Are Provided with Hosting Plans
- Convert Free Web Site Template Designs to a Skin
- Buy Skins from Third Party Designers
- Buy Template Design and Convert to a Skin
- Modify Existing Skin (see Above Option) to Better Fit Your Needs
- Convert an Existing Web Site Design to a Skin
- New Custom Skin Package
If you need help sorting out the look of your web site contact me. I would be happy to discuss how I can help you.