Web Templates are becoming more and more functional, not to mention good-looking. As webpage templates become more specialized and more easily customized each month, their impact will go up geometrically on the webpages of the internet.

Google is not perfect, but they have made search more systemized, more even-handed. Google hasn’t gotten a lot of compliments from me lately, but in the world of search they are #1, and deservedly so. They also improve each month.

So in an article about the future of webpage templates why the congratulations to Google? Because they have a good system for SEO - and webpage templates of the future can actually help with that too. Web templates are becoming more and more search-friendly in their reminders and neat ways to add keywords and metatags. And web templates will get even better at this.

Web templates with CSS and CMS features will become as dominant as selecting the feature you want on your home telephune service or your cell phone. If these web templates become more customizable they will eventually replace a lot of the original design enterprises out there.

Designers will still have plenty of work. But design work of the future will be about making new templates and customizing those exisitng web templates that are sold.

How do I know this? Two big reason. Designers already use web templates and fragments of various other templates and code to create Flash, XML, and AJAX based components. And these code systems and templates will become even more adaptable while also becoming more standards compliant.

Just as mathematics has gone from pebbles to abacus to sliderule to calculator - so will webpage design. Customization, especially when it allows creativity and the autonomy of the website owner IS the future. Website owners will still need marketing and SEO information as well as creative advice in areas they do not feel qualified.

For the small business websites based on templates will be a snap. For international businesses that specialize in mail order business things will be very much simplified.

Soon you will choose from hundreds of thousands of interesting and highly functional web templates that are easily customized, uploaded and managed. You will have a high-quality website as easy as establishing your telephone service. And no additional costs after that except the hosting service fee of $6-15 per month.

Happy Trails To You,
Arthur Browning