Every day, we spend countless hours online browsing various websites, whether they are e-shops, dynamic websites, or static websites. When it comes to building them, there are two main methods:
The first method involves setting up the website using a pre-purchased template, which is installed and modified as needed to achieve the desired result.
The second method is creating the website from scratch, without relying on any pre-made template, by utilizing a custom design.
Of course, building a website based on a pre-made template is much easier, faster, and more cost-effective. However, custom websites have the following advantages.
Let’s begin by saying that in website design, especially the visual aspect, it is similar to any other artistic field. There are techniques and trends that are followed to achieve a flawless result.
Custom sites feature a unique design created after analyzing the business philosophy, its logo, and the goals it aims to achieve. This approach conveys a sense of innovation and superiority compared to template-based websites, which, while functional, may share the same design with hundreds or even thousands of other sites.
All popular content management systems operate by installing plugins that enable specific functionalities, such as galleries, sliders, portfolios, page speed optimization, and more.
When using a pre-made template, before even customizing its design, we install the necessary plugins required for it to function. These plugins may not necessarily be the best on the market, nor does it matter if we use their full capabilities, only part of them, or not at all—they remain permanently activated.
The issue is that both the plugins and the template require regular updates, which can cause compatibility issues. Failing to update them increases the risk of security vulnerabilities.
Every browser, from Chrome and Mozilla to Opera and Edge, reads the page’s code and “translates” it into what the end user sees. The better structured the code is, the faster it is read, resulting in the page loading faster.
As mentioned above, in custom websites, the code is very well structured, and we also don’t have unnecessary code, which makes well-built custom websites much faster compared to those based on templates.
Every ready-made template or theme available for sale is designed with the goal of making sales.
To achieve this, the creators of these templates aim to appeal to as large an audience as possible, integrating more features than your website may actually need, resulting in carrying unnecessary code in the end.
Custom websites are designed to achieve specific functionality goals, so the developer builds them from scratch in the most structured way possible, without adding unnecessary elements, which means less useless code.
In summary, we conclude that templates are the quick and easy solution that partially cover the needs, while the custom website is designed to fully meet the needs of the business and showcase its philosophy. At Reweb, when we take on the implementation of a custom website, we are essentially committed to delivering a unique page with pixel-perfect design, tailored to your exact needs.
