Recently I’ve had some questions given to me asking why I create free website templates and what I gain from doing this?
Well there are a number of reasons:
- I’ve always had a passion for website design and creating these free templates helps me try out new techniques and design layouts. This I can then carry over these new skills to my clients websites though my sister website Serprise Design.
- Improved SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) for my Serprise Design website. You might notice that for each template it has a link back to one of my websites. This can help build up backlinks to those website which can aid towards better placement in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) for certain keywords.
- I’ve been working in the website design field for nearly 8 years and I remember when I first started that other designers that gave away free templates helped me understand the basic concepts of design – even though at that time tables were king! So it’s good to be helping other designers and also helping the open source community.
- I’m quite a sucker for the whole W3C Web Standards so also being able to provide people with an XHTML compliant framework to start their website with helps me sleep better at night!
These are the main reasons that I create these free website templates amongst others.