Today we will look into creating custom templates for a WordPress theme created with Artisteer. These themes are used when creating websites, to change the look and feel of the site.

What are templates?

Templates are basically variations on the layout of your default theme. You use custom templates when you want a page to look different from the rest of the other pages on your website or blog. When building or creating a website, you need to think on the layout first. For example, when I created this website I needed the home page to be the whole width of the page, with no sidebars on either side.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital if you want your website to be found and displayed (indexed) by the search engines. Just building a website and setting it up is not enough.

In this article I will share with you some of the techniques I use to set-up SEO when building a website with WordPress. I hope you find them helpful.

I. Domain Name

SEO starts with the domain name. Make sure your domain name contains keywords that you want to rank for in the search engines.

WordPress Themes define the look and feel when you make a website. The themes define such things as color combination, pictures, navigation, etc; of your newly created website.

In the world of WordPress there are Free themes and Premium themes (pay for) available. What are the differences? Let’s take a look.

Security

Free WordPress themes are great if you are on a budget, but they are usually riddled with SPAM code. Because there is no control over who coded the theme, most free themes contain some sort of SPAM code embedded in them. In some instances, if you remove this code, the website will stop functioning. You know what they say: “You get what you pay for.”