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How to Design a Website Template

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This is an in-depth guide for those who know HTML and CSS but are clueless in how to make your layout.

Steps

1. Decide what your website topic is.
   
2. Find the right color scheme.
   
3. Decide what kind of navigation bar to use.
   
4. Mock up how your website will be laid out in a graphic editing program.
   
5. Create the page in HTML.
   
6. Create a stylesheet in CSS.
   
7. Duplicate the HTML page for the other pages and add content. This article is just an in-depth for layouts.

Tips

• Do not use tables for layouts. That is outdated technology!

Warnings

• Beware of presentational markup! It is bad.

Things You'll Need

• Knowledge of HTML and CSS
  
• A good graphics program. (not MS Paint)
  
• A website host to host you

Related wikiHows

• How to Create a Website
  
• How to Create a Simple Webpage With HTML
  
• How to Build a MySpace Layout Site
  
• How to Make an Interactive Quiz for Your Homepage

Sources and Citations

• Zymic, Lots of free website templates.

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