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Club templates or custom templates, what's the difference?
In Joomla! land there are a couple of ways to built your website and I'm talking about the template specifically.
Now what is a template anyway?
A template in Joomla! land is the layout or public front-end for your site, the visual presentation layer that presents data from the CMS to the user in a certain way.
Joomla!'s template system is unlike stated sometimes by people without the proper knowledge, very powerful, flexible but still simple. The amount of power lies largely in the hands of the developer working on the template.
Option 1, the template club.
In Joomla! land it is a very common practice to use a free template or become a member of a so called template club. A template club is a club of which you become a member after paying a monthly or annual fee. A member is given access to a variety of pre-designed templates that he or she can download and use.
The upside of using a club template.- You can start fast.
- You can pick from many designs.
- You get a template with many features.
- It's relatively cheap.
- You have limited options to get exactly what you have in mind.
- They are build for the masses so they are usually packed with features you don't need.
- They are hard to tune besides changing a color or image.
- Most of them are image, html and css heavy, slow rendering.
- You could end up with the same template your competition is using.
Option 2, the custom build template.
A custom build template is something totally different. A template build especially for you and fitting your brand strategy. Custom templates are mostly unique and there are things possible that are simply to complicated for mass production club templates.
The upside of using a custom template.- There are basically no limits to make it fit your needs.
- They can be build ultra light and fast rendering.
- They are easy to tune or change.
- They can fit your brand appearance exactly.
- They are unique.
- They can grow with your site.
- They can be SEO optimized.
- It takes more time to build them.
- They require a larger investment money wise.
Decision making time.
Once you decide to start a website or update your existing site it is time to think about the needs and requirements (just looking at presentation level here). Questions like:
- Which message should my site send into the world?
- Do I have special needs?
- Does the site need to be build by using the latest web-standards?
- Is accessibility important to me or my visitors?
- Do I really need a template which can display in 30 different color schemes and with 20 collapsible module positions?
- Does it matter whether my site is unique?
- How long do I expect the design to be representing?
- Is SEO important to get the most out of my site?
- What is my budget?
My personal opinion.
If you are shooting for a fast site and branding isn't that important to you, go for a club template but make sure you try to customize it as much as you can to make it look different than your neighbour.
If you are a professional business taking yourself serious and if you want everyone else to see that at first glance you need to go for a professional custom template that represents your brand perfectly and is build to render fast, be accessible, usable and SEO optimized. The investment is a little higher in the beginning but in the longer run you will be more satisfied and more flexible to keep your site up to par with your growing business.
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