by Jason Savage | Feb 11, 2017 | Thoughts
This post is directed to those contemplating hiring a designer to develop a new website.So you’re thinking about having a website designed. WordPress is my Content Management System (CMS) of choice. That being said, there are thousands of themes available – free and premium. You’ll see themes with gorgeous content and rave reviews. What’s a person to do?For the most part, everything between the header and the footer will be striped in preparation to receive your content. The layout falls on your designer. I would consider three things when looking for a theme.One, do you like the header and menu. Two, how do you like the footer? And three, do you want a full width or boxed layout. Many themes advertise they are full width, but in reality, they are not. If you don’t want to spend any time searching for a theme, there’s another option.I use several themes that have nice menus, footers, and full width capability. We can use one of those as a base point. My page builder has a number of very nice templates. You may like to review those. That takes the theme selection out of the equation. Now you can concentrate on story boarding (making a graphic outline of your website), writing your copy, and putting together your images. Those are things I can’t provide unless you want to pay for copy writing and photography. I can help with your story board.If you have your heart set on a particular theme, we can use it provided it’s compatible with my page builder. Just give me the name of the theme, and I will...
