Mistakes To Avoid When Using Web Templates

Mistakes To Avoid When Using Web Templates

Website templates are very affordable and they save you a lot of effort and time when you want to create a new layout for your website. However, a lot of people make mistakes in the process of choosing and using a web template and end up with something that was unlike the image they had in mind. Here are some guidelines to help you avoid those mistakes.

The first obvious mistake you should be aware of is using a template that is very popular. If many people use the same template, your website will not appear unique at all and your credibility as a solid, different website will be tarnished. In other words, you will appear generic just like your next-door neighbours.

To whole point of using a web template is to save time and effort. You just change the title and appropriate details and you're done. The biggest mistake one makes is to customize the template beyond recognisation. While that may be good in the sense that you're creating a unique graphic, you're defying the very purpose of using a web template -- saving time and effort. 

However, on the opposite side, if a template you purchase is suitable but some changes must be made to suit your site's theme, then you will have to take some time to make the changes. For example, you can find a very nice template that suits your hobby site except the original designer has put an image of stamps in the header. You can find images of garden plants and spades to replace the stamps for your gardening hobby site. However, do only make the necessary changes and don't redesign the whole template. 

In some circumstances, some people simply make the wrong choice of templates. This is a very subjective issue but you have to be careful in selecting templates to suit your audience. Do not choose templates just because they are pretty, choose them because they serve your purpose. 

menTHE USE OF SPIES

 1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand
  men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss
  on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. 
  The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces
  of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad,
  and men will drop down exhausted on the highways. 
  As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded
  in their labor.

 2. Hostile armies may face each other for years,
  striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. 
  This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's
  condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred
  ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height
  of inhumanity.

 3. One who acts thus is no leader of men, no present
  help to his sovereign, no master of victory.

 4. Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good
  general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond
  the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

 5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits;
  it cannot be obtained inductively from experience,
  nor by any deductive calculation.

 6. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only
  be obtained from other .

The Garden

The gardener does not love to talk.
He makes me keep the gravel walk;
And when he puts his tools away,
He locks the door and takes the key.

Away behind the currant row,
Where no one else but cook may go,
Far in the plots, I see him dig,
Old and serious, brown and big.

He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue,
Nor wishes to be spoken to.
He digs the flowers and cuts the hay,
And never seems to want to play.

Silly gardener! summer goes,
And winter comes with pinching toes,
When in the garden bare and brown
You must lay your barrow down.

The Cow

The friendly cow all red and white,
  I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
  To eat with apple-tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
  And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
  The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
  And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
  And eats the meadow flowers.

ENVELOPE STUFFING SCAMS

It seems like every mail order publication has at least one ad in it 
promising hundreds of dollars a week, just for stuffing envelopes. Some 
even promise to pay $4 or $5 per envelope stuffed! So, many people send 
off their hard earned money for the "registration fees" so they can get 
started on this easy work. Then they are disappointed when they discover 
they've been duped.  
Here's why the envelope stuffing programs are nothing more than scams.
First of all, the idea of paying someone to stuff envelopes is ridiculous. 
Why pay someone even 50 cents to stuff an envelope when you can get an 
envelope stuffing machine for a few hundred dollars? There must be more 
to what you'll have to do then simply putting a paper in an envelope.
In fact, there's more. The most prevalent envelope stuffing con game goes 
like this. You pay your "registration fee" _ usually around $30.00, pure 
profit for the scam operator.  
The operator will then send you a copy of the ad you originally responded to, 
along with the wording to a classified ad, telling people about how much
 money they can make stuffing envelopes, and to send a self-addressed 
stamped envelope for information. When you receive someone's SASE, 
you send them a copy of the ad.  
You have just "stuffed an envelope." If the poor sucker sends in the 
registration fee to the operator (like YOU did), the operator will send 
you $1 (or whatever was promised in the ad) for "stuffing the envelope."  
The operator is left with expenses of around $2 and a profit of $28.
Basically, you are doing all the advertising work for the operator for 
extremely low pay. You should expect a response rate, if you're lucky, of 
1/4% to 1/2%. At 1/2%, you'd have to get 200 responses to your classified 
ad to get $1. Good luck.

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.
As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them
and said: "You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?"

So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their
way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "See
that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides."

So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.
But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom
said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little
son trudge along."

Well, the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his
Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to
the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The
Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey
of yoursu and your hulking son?"

The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They
thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied
the donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to
their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met
them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one
of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end
of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and
his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.

"That will teach you," said an old man who had followed them:

"Please all, and you will please none."

The Serpent and the File

A Serpent in the course of its wanderings came into an
armourer's shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skin
pricked by a file lying there. In a rage he turned round upon it
and tried to dart his fangs into it; but he could do no harm to
heavy iron and had soon to give over his wrath.

It is useless attacking the insensible.