How to choose the necessary template type

This article is intended for users, who have insufficient experience in web building and is designed for the ordinary visitor, who runs into website templates for the first time.

So, you entered website that offers wide range of templates and immediately were taken aback by the number of offered template types. Which one to choose - a dynamic/vivid flash, animated JavaScript or austere Joomla? Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages, let's discuss all of them in details:

Flash Templates

They are very bright, colorful, effective, and dynamic, with a complex animation. Are you sure you will surprise your visitors by such representation? WOW effect is guaranteed to all visitors - nobody will remain indifferent. They are easy in installation or copying to your site and do not require any special skills to be installed. Disadvantages - require knowledge of Adobe Flash editor, if you want to do structural changes in the template and its content blocks. Bad indexing by search engines and problems with displaying on the mobile devices also can be attributed to disadvantages of Flash.

Certainly flash templates are the best solution if you need a simple business card site, with a small set of pages, in order to produce a strong impression on your customers. You can also pay attention to Video or Gallery Admin templates. As a rule they have a built-in module for work with galleries.

JS Animated, Html5, CSS, html Templates

Vendors try to make them rather dynamic and animated within the existing technologies. This type of templates is also as easy to install as flash (simple copying of files to your web server). To edit them it's enough to have basic knowledge of html. These templates are well indexed by Google and displayed on all types of devices (from iPhone to the MAc). This type of website templates is the easiest in usage and is recommended to the most inexperienced newbies.

Joomla Templates

These templates are presented by Content Management System - CMS. They have an admin panel to work with content, multi-user support, various modules and extensions. They have a large built-in functionality to work with SEO. These templates are also well indexed by search engines and have no problems with displaying on mobile devices.

However, this is one of the most complex products in terms of installation on your web server. Here the databases for data storage are used. You should have all necessary skills and experience of files installation. Structural changes of pages will require knowledge of programming language PHP. This type of templates is not appropriate for beginners who do not have any experience with the sites. You will need the help of qualified experts for installation and structural editing.