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Building and choosing on what would be the design for your organization’s website plays a crucial role, it will depend on the identity and uniqueness of your brand.  If you are still unsure of what you would need in your website there will be two choices, to build a custom-built website or use a ready made website templates. With this building your digital marketing strategy may depend on your choice regardless of whether you chose custom website design or templates because having the right choice will be the foundation of your website in the long run.

In this article we will help you on what would be the best for your business and provide an overview of both custom-built and templates so you will have a deep insight of each approach. Also to understand which options suit the best on what your organization really needs.

Custom-Build Website

Custom-built websites give the freedom to create a website from scratch, this approach gives the organization creativity, gives everything they need and everything they want to include on the website. It will start from the bottom up and you have nothing ready but the best thing is you can control everything on what your organization demands without limitation. It gives you the uniqueness and own identity that will have a major impact on your organization’s brand and stand out from the others, because in this modern digital business era, you need to be incomparable.

Custom Web Design Insight

• Build the website from scratch, based on your business needs and requirements.
• Gives your website a unique look and own identity, making it incomparable to the other website.
• Provides better SEO control, as the website can be designed and developed with SEO best practices.
• Enhanced brand identity, as you can design the website to align with your brand’s visual style and content.
• Provides more flexibility and scalability, allowing the website  and business to grow at the same time.
• More secure than template designs as it can be tailored to provide specific security features.
• Support is always available.
• It may be time consuming but everything will be demanded.

Templates Design

Unlike the custom-built design that offers a limitless design and features, templates give you a ready made, pre-design website that is designed and developed using an existing platform. You can choose from a wide variety of designs and built in options  that are aligned with your brand requirement. While this offers you a wide variety of choices there is no such option when you choose to go with a custom website. Templates offer convenience and cost-effectiveness but follow with limitations in design flexibility, differentiation, tech support, security, customization, scalability, and SEO.

Templates Design Insight

• Set up and launch your website easily.
• Cost-effective than a custom website.
• Can be integrated with third-party apps.
• Offers wide but limited industry-specific themes, which you can choose depending on the nature of your business.
• Use a boxy theme (built-in design doesn’t give you as many options to customize the design as you demand).
• Some templates might not be mobile-responsive.
• It may not look as unique or professional as a custom-designed website.
• Finding support is a bit challenging. Ongoing maintenance and updates may be more difficult or time-consuming than a custom designed website.
• Add-ons and third-parties integration might slow down the site.
• If not properly maintained and updated, it can be prone to vulnerabilities.

Insightful Approach

Overall choosing between the two will depend on what your brand requires, But In the long run your organization will only choose to be the best. Websites will be the main Identity of your brand digitally, users always find what will stand out and what gives an exceptional digital experience to them.

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