Creating a website takes into consideration several important factors. The most important ones are the theme, layout design, color combination and content.
In terms of web themes, there are numerous choices available today regardless of the platform or content management systems you want to use. The SEO-friendly Drupal themes are among the most preferred by web developers and designers and many of them are even free. In fact, nearly one million sites are now using the Drupal open source CMS.
Mayo
The Mayo theme is ideal for people who want to put up a website in vibrant colors. The Drupal 7 theme is recommended as it has module and advanced settings that makes it easy to incorporate your preferred color in the main elements such as in the page, header, sidebar, base, node and footer. It also lets the user specify the color of the text, link, background and border of every element.
What’s vital in using this theme is to be able to choose the right color combination to avoid a very bright and psychedelic website. Your goal should always be a site that’s pleasing to the eyes every time a visitor checks it out.
Marinelli
Those planning to build a more complex website can rely on the Marinelli theme. It features a three-column design with a slider and eight extra collapsible sections. Rotating banners can be incorporated particularly at the topmost part of the site. Corporate sites can make good use of this and highlight their most important content using the rotating banners.
Hatch
The Hatch theme is most ideal for photographers, illustrators and graphic designers who want to showcase their work on the site. A simple Drupal 7 theme, its unique feature is an automatic thumbnail view on the front page.
Daycare
The Daycare theme is a responsive type and highly recommended for a children’s education website. Developers can choose from the varied colors available, configurable header images and multi-column layout designs. The theme also features an elegant grid system based on the Syntactically Awesome Stylesheet (Sass). Despite its name, however, the Daycare theme can be modified if used to create a website in a different other than a children’s education.
Day and Night
Those involved in organizing events can use the Day and Night responsive theme. Using a Zen base theme, it features a tile layout with a dropdown menu and support for Sassy Cascading Style Sheets (Scass). The layout design is perfect for showcasing the various events you have organized so visitors of your site can readily see them on the home page.
In addition to these themes, you need to make sure that your website also uses Drupal SEO modules. This is to ensure that your site gets indexed by search engines and land in the top search results. One example is the Drupal SEO Tools, the all-in-one SEO suite which provides a dashboard that features several SEO functions such as titles, tags, keywords, redirects, sitemaps, Google analytics and paths among others.
The content optimizer is also useful as it analyzes your content and give you stats to give you an idea of how your site is faring. This should go together with the content analysis module.
To manage page errors, the Search 404 module is also idea to use. Remember that a page error can discourage website visitors from further exploring the site which increases your website’s bounce rate. But if you install this module, you can redirect people to another page within your site.
Websites need to be SEO-friendly so they are easily searched on the web. Apart from the content, a site also needs to use the right theme to ensure that it attracts search engines.
Originally posted on January 7, 2017 @ 1:40 pm