Top 5 Consulting Web Templates

January 20th, 2009

To dilute the serious mood of this blog I’m going to give you some rest from web design tutorials today and show you some cool website templates from our designers.
Well, here we go: the top 5 consulting web templates from LayoutsPack designers.

#1 Consulting Group CSS Template

Consulting Group CSS Template

This Flash Animated CSS Template is a great solution for any consulting business web site. It’s fresh design and nice animation most definitely will bring popularity and clients to your consulting business.

#2 Visa Consulting Services CSS Template

Visa Consulting Services CSS Template

This web template is not all-purpose that’s why it’s not on the first position of this chart, but it really deserves to be. Its fresh and eye-catching design makes a website namable and thus more visited, bringing more popularity to your Visa Consulting Services website and more money to your business.

#3 Business Solutions Web Template

Business Solutions Web Template

This HTML Website Template is very simple and this simplicity makes it brilliant. Its plain design and easy navigation bring extra user-friendliness, making your business solutions website more useful and reliable for your clients and thus more popular.

#4 Consulting Business Web Design Template

Consulting Business Web Design Template

One more simple and reliable HTML Website Template from our collection that had proven to be a good solution for any Consulting Business. I really like the color palette here.

#5 Financial Consulting Web Template
Financial Consulting Web Template

It’s the last but not the least. The light and plain web design for a Financial Consulting Business website that visually assures your clients in the bright future they’ll come to with your consulting help.

Check out LayoutsPack collection for more beautiful Consulting Business Website Templates and subscribe to one of our membership plans to download all of these web templates at once.

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Dreamweaver Templates You Always Wanted

January 7th, 2009

The easily customizable templates you always wanted.

Website construction and maintenance seams to be a useful skill nowadays, if not the neccesary one.

Web pages can be created in any text editor. One simply needs to create documents with HTML or htm extensions. But creating a really professional looking website is not that easy.
One if not the most popular web editor used to create professional web pages is Macromedia  Dreamweaver. It allows to add design and functionality to web pages quickly and without programming HTML code manually.

Being a What You See Is What You Get editor (WYSWYG) Dreamweaver gives an opportunity to see what the page will exactly look like on the web.

LayoutsPack has hundreds of Dreamweaver templates in the collection. And they are really popular. Why?

By separating page content from page design Macromedia Dreamweaver Templates allow you to better manage your website. With defined editable areas on a page you can easily modify your Dreamweaver Template without compromising the site’s design. As the HTML code itself is hidden from the user you won’t do any demage to your web page even if you are a newbie in web design. Moreover, the changes can be made in no time.

Here are some examples of beautiful and easily customizable Dreamweaver Templates our designers make.

Dreamweaver Template

Visa Consulting Services Web Template
Macromedia Dreamweaver Template

Chemicals Manufacturing Web Template

Dreamweaver cs3 template

Financial Services Web Template

So, aren’t Dreamweaver Templates the easily customizable templates you always wanted?

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10 Most Common CSS Mistakes

December 3rd, 2008

Working with CSS is sometimes tricky. As great as this language is, as easy it is to use it incorrectly. Below are 10 most common mistakes web developers make working with CSS. These mistakes are well-known but still many of web developers walk twice (or even thrice) into the same water.

1. Neglecting Browser Compatibility
No matter what browser your website visitor is using the layout has to look the same. There are differences in the way Firefox renders the page and the way Internet Explorer does the task.
There is a number of sure methods to indemnify your layouts for different browser rendering. There are online tools that make screenshots of what your website looks like in different browsers and platforms, so you can be sure nothing looks wrong in a browser.

2. Ignoring Smaller Browser Resolutions
Not all your website visitors have large computer monitors. There is a big difference in the way your design looks in a 800×600 resolution  opposed to a 1024×768 resolution. Take that into consideration when developing a website and all your visitors will be happy.

3. Not Using Frameworks
Why loosing time to develop a CSS layout from the ground up when there are tonns of ready-to-use CSS templates that have cross-browser compatibility? They are created for you to make your life easier and your work faster.

4. Not Utilizing Generic Classes
Web developers often name CSS classes something different each time they develope a website. Isn’t it easier to make a simple CSS class that can be reused repetedly throughout your design? This will assure that your site design remains constant throughout the alterations of a design.

Here are the classes you might use:
1.  .right{float:right}
2.  .clear{clear:both}
3.  .left{float:left}

5. Forgeting to Validate the HTML
Validating HTML can affect your CSS. First of all, CSS can’t be validated until the HTML is validated. Secondly, the problems we think are caused by CSS can actually be caused by awry HTML. So make sure your HTML is valid.

6. Invalid CSS
If your CSS is valid you are much likely to have no problems with breaking CSS and its compatibility across browsers. Learn to validate the CSS.

7.  Using Gigantic Background Images
Using a huge backround image you make your visitor wait longer for it to load and it means you are using unnecessary bandwidth. It’s better to use repeating images or solid colors in the background.

8. Overusing CSS
It is sometimes much easier and faster to use different technologies for particular tasks. For instance, use a table to organize data than making complicated CSS-based layout with floating DIV’s.

9. Employing Inline CSS
CSS and HTML should be kept separate. Ensure you won’t have to search through the HTML for the CSS attached to an inline element when you decide to change the design.

10. Too Many Files used
A design with dozen CSS files attached is terribly hard to modify. Besides, it slows the time processing each file. Better use a simple CSS scheme. save your time and time of those who’ll have to make alterations to your layout.

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Flash Templates Knowledge Base

November 26th, 2008

LayoutsPack cares about its users and we try to provide you with useful and helpful information. We continue our Web Templates Types review, so please welcome some fresh pieces of advice. Today we are going to speak about Flash Templates.

Flash Templates represent ready-made usual web design templates improved by Flash technology. Nowadays Flash Templates are of great popularity as they are considered to be advanced and modern and are appreciated by webmasters. Using Flash Templates as a basis for your website you will get vivid and impressive web presence supplemented with movements, sound and visual effects. And you may be sure your clients and visitors will be amazed how professional and qualitative your website is.
Flash Templates can relate to various categories, such as Education Flash Templates, Business templates & Finance Flash Templates, Photo Flash Templates and many others. In other words they will perfectly fit each of your purposes, either commercial or personal, and will meet all your requirements. Though Flash Templates may seem difficultly organized because of impressive animation effects, they are quite easy to work with and customize. You won’t need extra knowledge to cope with your Flash Template editing. You can easily change necessary text, images or symbols with the help of certain flash editors which exist specially for simplifying your work.
In order to work with Flash Templates and edit them you will need to install Macromedia Flash on your computer. After the installation is complete you may open the FLA file (you will find the instructions in our previous post) and start carrying out necessary tasks.
Have a look at the following tips on editing your Flash Templates.

Changing text in Flash

In case you want to modify the text within your Flash Template you only need to take several steps.
First open your FLA file in Macromedia Flash. After that you need to select the very part of the text to be edited. The first way to do it is to make use of the timeline slider. You need to move it and watch the animation process, and when you reach the text you need to edit, stop the slider. Then find “Selection Tool” on the tools panel, double click the necessary text extract and change the text typing new one instead.

Symbols library
Sometimes you may find it hard to access some symbols from the timeline. In this case you may need symbols library. In order to open it select “Library” in “Windows” option which is in the top menu.
To open symbols library you can use “Ctrl + L” hotkey or choose “Window/Library…” from the top menu.
When you get to the symbols library you need to choose the text you want to edit. All the symbols there can be previewed for convenience. After you have found the necessary text double click the symbol’s icon and it will show the text in main window. Then do the same with “Selection Tool” to modify the text.

Text Properties
You can also edit your text size and color by means of Text Tool and Properties Panel. There you will find all necessary icons and options to make the modifications of the selected text.
After you have finished editing your text use “Esc” button to exit and then you may choose other text extracts to modify them as well.

Changing images in Flash
While working with your Flash Template you will definitely need to insert some images, so follow the advice.
After you have opened the FLA file press F11 to get to Symbols Library. Find the necessary symbol there and double click its icon to see the properties. There you will find image preview and be able to check the image size. The picture you want to upload should be of original image size to fit the original animation and effects. You can also set the quality of the image using symbol properties.
You can also resize the image using Adobe Photoshop. To use the image in flash after modification make sure it has “jpeg”, “gif” or “png” format. Use “Import” option and find your image file to paste it then.

Publishing Your Flash Movie
When all the changes are done you should publish your animated header and update it. In order to publish your movie choose “Publish Settings” selecting “Publish” option there. The SWF file will be located in the same folder where FLA file is. Don’t forget to replace previous SWF file with updated one, and then check the changes.

So this was the basic information on Flash Templates we wanted you to familiarize with today. Hope you will make use of it and thank you for the attention.

You are welcome to leave comments and ask questions if necessary.

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Flash Animated Templates Knowledge Base

November 18th, 2008

Layoutspack.com continues familiarizing its users with information about website templates types. And today we have Flash Animated Templates in question.

Flash Animated Templates are the kind of web templates that combine sound effects and live action in one. They may have flash header, animated menu and will appear a perfect solution suitable for impressing website visitors not only with professional design but also with interactive flash technology. Very often 3D models and 3D animation are used. Flash Animated Templates are good choice either for dynamic or static websites, and they will definitely make your website look professional and vivid.

A lot of web designers use Flash Animated Templates nowadays as they are considered to be stylish and improve your website presentation greatly. Nowadays there is a variety of Flash Animated Templates as their popularity grows day by day, and they are quite easy to use – you won’t need extra modern equipment to work with them.
The list of special software you will need to work with Flash Animated Templates is quite short and includes:

-    any HTML editor (Dreamweaver, Front Page etc)
-    Macromedia Flash
-    Adobe Photoshop

Any Flash Animated Template can be also modified according to your demands with the help of any popular HTML editor, and you won’t need special HTML and flash knowledge to edit and improve Flash Animated Templates. You can replace any photo, text or object easily.

In order to make necessary modifications you will work with the template FLA file – a file with all graphics and animation. You will make use of it with the help of Macromedia Flash MX 6 or higher. In order to open the FLA file, select “Open” in the “File” section, and then simply find where your FLA file is located.

“Unexpected file format” error

It happens sometimes that when you open your FLA file in the Flash editor you receive an error message which says that the file format is unexpected. This can be explained by the fact that your template source files were created with newer versions of the software.
So what are you to do? All you need is to upgrade your version of Adobe Flash/Macromedia, and you will be able to open the FLA file properly. In order not to meet such obstacles in future make sure you use Adobe Flash CS3 or Flash 8.
Thank you for your attention, this is the piece of information for today and we hope you will find it useful. Any comments and questions are accepted, so feel free to share your opinion.

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