Easy and Free Website Templates
For the newbie in the field of web development, there are a lot of different tools out there which won’t dig into your pockets. If fact they are completely free. Website templates are stock websites that just need to be unloaded onto your server. From there you can change a few graphics and some of the text and, voila, you have a website. This generic functionality doesn’t always offer everything that someone might desire though. Some of the best free website templates are part of Wordpress. The following will explain some of the customizability of Wordpress, which is a completely free to use open source software.
Wordpress is traditionally a blog, but with some modification it can house all sorts of different types and styles of websites. This site, for instance, is based on Wordpress. This is the blog section of the site, but the entire site is built on Wordpress. Wordpress, as a default offers widgetized customizability to the sidebar(s) so that someone who does not know any code can easily put things into the free website templates. Also, every page is created in a text editor so there is no coding required for creating pages or posts, although if you know how to code in HTML, you can do that too.
There are also free Wordpress templates or themes which can be downloaded off of Wordpress.org. This is great because someone who does not know how to code can download one and easily interface it with their website. They all tend to come with clear instructions on how to set up the features and many of the creators even have their own sites where they have forums and helpful tips on using the themes. This can be extremely helpful to someone new in the field.
Wordpress plugins work about the same as the free Wordpress templates. They are completely free at Wordpress.org and can customize your site to do nearly anything you can imagine. Many of the plugins are backend stuff that saves time for the site manager and for the front end like social bookmark buttons and content display widgets. Whatever you can think of is probably available.
These are the basic functions of Wordpress which is my recommendation for anyone looking to set up a website using free website templates.
