Tips On Website Design Through CMS

Content management system of CMS usually offers website builders multiple layout templates to choose from. Generally, this makes the process of website creation much easier and faster; however, sometimes CMS administrators do want to change some layout elements, such as text color or box sizes just to make their website design unique and different from other websites, powered by the same CMS solution.

 

Creativity should definitely be encourages. However, it won’t be extra to remember some of the simple tips to follow before you jump into changing the source code of your CMS template.

 

Color

If you are not satisfied with the colors predefined by your CMS template, you can change this by changing a source code. Of course, here you will need some knowledge of website programming. Anyway, when choosing a new color, remember that it should correlate with the other elements of the pages. Besides, avoid using blue color for text font color, since text in blue is commonly associated with the hyper link.

 

Size

Changing the sizes of the page elements, such as images, tables, boxes, and others on the websites built with the help of content management system application, is not recommended. This may lead to disproportions on the web pages, so it is better to avoid resizing elements. Otherwise, be sure to make a backup copy of the original file before applying any changes to it.

 

Add-ons

With the help of add-ons or additional elements you can sometimes significantly widen the functionality of your website. Of course, here you will also need the website design skills. One of the simplest add-ons is the link section at the bottom each web page – this is not very difficult to make, but it will improve SEO of your pages by increasing the amount of interlinks.

 

Back-up!

Before you make any changes to the files from the CMS templates, be sure to back-up those files. This will allow you to discard all the changes, if the results won’t meet your expectations.