Websites have become a must not only for businesses but for many
personal and artistic projects as well. There are many ways to create a
website, from hiring a full-scale web development company, to doing it
yourself by hand, to premade theme-based websites. Each of these
approaches has its benefits and drawbacks, but using a PHP template
offers the best features of all three.
PHP is a common coding
language used to build websites. There are nearly 250 million websites
built in PHP on over 2 million servers. These websites run the full
range from visually intense to minimalistic, from animated to static
media, and from blogging to e-commerce to simple informational pages.
While
PHP Training in Jaipur is among the preferred coding languages for web developers, many
users are not experienced coders and would not feel comfortable building
their own website from scratch. And that's why the idea the PHP
template was invented.
A PHP template is essentially a fully
coded, full designed website that is missing only content (the words and
pictures you want to include). All the PHP files are provided with the
template, including any CSS (visual style programming), and are ready to
upload to your server to make your site go live. But even better,
because you have access to every line of code in the template, you have
total freedom to change any aspect of the site you'd like to change: if
the border is brown and you want it to be blue, you can do that; if you
want the margins wider, or the header bigger, or to change the default
font - you can do that.
Of course, there are a variety of
platforms that offer customizable "theme based" websites, but many have
very limited customization. Typically, when you buy a "theme" for a web
platform you can only change the CSS, or visual styling, and have
limited access to the underlying code. That means you can make only the
most cosmetic changes. With a PHP template you can make deep-level
changes to the framework and functionality of the website itself.
In
other words, a PHP template provides more customization than a
theme-based website, requires little coding knowledge and yet costs a
fraction of hiring a professional designer. A designer can easily charge
over $200 per hour, whereas you can buy a huge collection of PHP
templates for less than $40.
Ultimately, the amount of coding
skill you need to use PHP templates is up to you. If you want to make
only minor changes or use a template as-is, you might not need any
coding experience at all. If you're an experienced web designer you can
use the template as a jumping off point and build something completely
unique in record time. PHP templates are the most flexible way of
building attractive websites.
