Templates: website solution properties

While templates offer a great starting point, they may not be suitable for every website. This can be especially problematic for those who need a website with specific functionality or design requirements.

Web builders have taken great leaps recently, and artificial intelligence has helped. AI templates and features often still require expert validation.

Some templates can change without limitation, other templates will only allow changes within their programmable logic.

Whether purchasing, developing or renting a template builder. The need to produce a design and create an artefact is still necessary. Each option comes with its drawbacks and benefits. The artefact you produce may look the same to the user, but the business properties differ.

When building a solution, some templates need to execute logic or interpolate data from a data source. Custom builds have many tools chosen to produce the myriad of formats needed for broad exposure on all device formats. Complex applications require multiple formats to be at maximum efficiency everywhere they are used. Correct solutions often acknowledge this fact by developing to reuse the artifact in multiple contexts, where using native formats provide no further required functionality.

For example, often mobile applications don’t need custom native development. The features of the website format suffice for all applicable mobile operating systems. In cases where a few extra capabilities are required, it’s often effective to reuse your website content in a mobile operating system wrapper application. Instead of investing in developing many different native mobile application formats.