Affordable Web Templates

Are you frustrated hiring web designers for your business websites? Do you feel that the money that you pay for professional fees does not give you the return that you expect? The solution to your problem is not necessarily as expensive or as sophisticated. Your problem can be solved by simply downloading affordable but highly professional web templates. You do not even need knowledge of HTML or web programming to implement the effective designs that that appeal to your site’s particular target demographic. You can attract more customers by choosing the most appropriate web design for your site. If the design of your site is appealing, customers and accidental visitors will have the tendency to stay longer.

Although high quality products and reliable services are the best selling points for your websites, the design also significantly matters. The design determines the appeal and interactivity of your site. It says something about your sense of aesthetics and practicality. The design should be user-friendly. It must be easy to navigate and easy to load. As much as possible, you should avoid using web designs that use many plug-ins and animations or very large graphics and files. Your would-be customers have very short patience. Considering the overwhelming online competition, your site’s potential customers will have the tendency to browse away from your site if it is unappealing or too slow to load.

Ideal web templates should immediately impress visitors and also immediately present information about the site. The visitors or customers must immediately know what exactly does your site offers. Graphics should be relevant and the layout should be ergonomic. Sites that are highly organized are easy to navigate and less frustrating to explore. If possible, detractive animations, pop-ups, and advertisements should be avoided. Your customers have the tendency to be irritated by too many irrelevant graphics or animations. You should choose web templates that have straightforward designs.

Product or site information should be immediately accessible. Purchase or order forms should be simple. Catalogs should be highly organized. Categories, alphabetization, and graphics help when presenting catalogs. Informative contents should be included in the catalogs. If you are operating a small online business and you still cannot afford to hire web designers and programmers, it helps a lot if you can easily download affordable web templates. Even if you do not have proficiency in web design, you can easily input data and other details by using templates. Some graphics and placeholders are already built-in features of downloadable web templates. You can improve and conveniently implement your own designs by downloading affordable web templates.

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Introduction to HTML Forms

The form that you see below is the comment form of YPEC's sign up page. HTML forms are easy to create and to implement, provided that you have a web host or server that will receive and process the input data. The comment page of this post is another example of HTML form.

HTML forms utilize CGI and PERL programs for them to function. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface while PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. CGI is the interface that allows communication between the server and the user while PERL is the program that allows the transfer, encoding, and interpretation of data.

Forms allow your site to be interactive by providing interface for the readers. HTML forms can be created by using the <form> tags.

HTML forms have two basic attributes, namely, method and action. Method refers to how the data is collected or sent to the server or host. The two basic types of method are post and get. "Post" deals with bigger type of data while "get" deals with smaller type of data. On the other hand, action refers to the CGI or PERL link on which the data will be posted.

Inside the "form" codes, the "input" element is contained. It refers to the type of data being asked. Examples of input include text, password, radio buttons, and check boxes.

For the sake of simplicity, the "post" type of method and "text" type of input will be shown here. In the example given below, the codes that are used are the following:

<form action="http://ypec.wordpress.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

<fieldset>

<p><label for="author">Name</label> <input name="author" id="author" value="" tabindex="1" type="text"> <em>Required</em></p>

<p><label for="email">Email</label> <input name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2" type="text"> <em>Required, hidden</em></p>

<p><label for="url">Url</label> <input name="url" id="url" value="" tabindex="3" type="text"></p>

<p><label for="comment">Comment</label> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="45" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<p><input name="comment_post_ID" value="4" type="hidden">

<input name="submit" value="Submit" class="button" tabindex="5" type="submit"></p>

</fieldset>

</form>

If you want to join YPEC, please fill in the form shown below.



YPEC Sign Up Form:

Name Required

Email Required, hidden

Url

Address and Contact Number

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Uploading Music to Blogger

Do you want to upload your favorite music files to Blogger? Unfortunately, Blogger only allows video and picture uploads. But there is another way to go around this problem. You can first upload your music files to other websites such as Esnips or Imeem and then you can embed the codes in your blogsite. Visitors of your blogsite can directly play the music files. However, the music files created through the aforementioned method are inconvenient to download.

Another simpler method is to first upload your music file to Googlepages, as shown in the illustration below:
















After uploading your music files, right click the link and choose copy link location (note: this might only work if you are using Mozilla Firefox browser). You can then paste this link URL onto your blog page or sidebar. On the other hand, you may also want to use the names of the songs rather than the link URL's. To do this, simply type the name of the song and highlight it; then, click the link icon. Paste the link URL that you have generated into the dialog box, as shown in the illustration below:



After creating your song list, you can now save your post and view your blog.

The song list below is created using the method I have just mentioned. Try clicking any of the links. Instead of opening a new web page, a dialog box will prompt you to download the song.

MY FAVORITE SONGS:

• Agila


• Ang Lupang Ito


• Bahay


• Buhay at Bukid


• Buksan ang Iyong Puso


• Himig ng Pag-ibig


• Kanlungan


• Karaniwang Tao


• Lea


• Magkabilaan


• Manggagawa


• Nasa Atin ang Panahon


• Pagsamba at Pakikibaka


• Paligid


• Payatas


• Tuldok


• Usok


• Walang Hanggang Paalam

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JavaScript Dialog Box

(NOTE: I have removed this feature due to loading problems.)

If it is the first time that you visited this site or if you happen to have reloaded this site, you will be prompted by a dialog box asking your name. After entering your name, a message will appear above the picture of my son on the left sidebar. This trick is made possible by the simple JavaScript codes that I have added.















To add the same feature in your blogsite or website, follow the simple instructions below:

Step1: Open the HTML template of your blog. Add the codes below to the new Page Element.

<script type="text/javascript">
var yourName = prompt("I'm John David. May I know your name?", "Reader");
</script>


Step2: Add another new Page Element and paste the codes below.

Hello <script type="text/javascript">document.write(yourName)</script>! Welcome to this blogsite that my father created. I hope this site would be of some help. Please leave a comment <script type="text/javascript">document.write(yourName)</script>


Step3: Create your own message by changing the highlighted texts in the codes shown above. Save and view your blog.

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