When you run an escort agency, the last thing you want is a website that is drab or dull. Having a sexy website template that showcases each of your escorts, your company, and services, helps to draw visitors in, and gives them the information that they need. With a sexy website template you can ensure that guests to your site walk away with a more favorable opinion of what your company has to offer.

There are ultra sexy website templates that can be found on the Internet, which can help to enhance the look of your website. The best of the best have been compiled into a short list here, for your review. Help your business jump to the top of the search engine rankings today, with on of these 11 sexy escort agency website templates.

Techno Escorts
This modern animated FLASH template comes complete with sound, and a variety of state of the art graphics. Featuring expandable pop up information boxes, there is plenty of room for this template to showcase current escorts and to continue to grow with your business. PRICE $75
Demo / Download

Sophisticated Escorts
This sleek and sophisticated FLASH template with sound, features outstanding one of a kind graphics that professionally show off the sexy photos of your escorts. A simple layout with pop up information tabs, makes this template customizable to any escort agency. PRICE $73
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Sexy Girl
This is a great simply laid out template, without all of the added glitz and glam. This HTML template is a simple and sexy way to let visitors experience why your escort agency is the best. There is plenty of room for customization, and this template can accommodate any size business. PRICE FREE
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Simply Escorts
A very customizable template that is perfect for small to medium sized escort agencies, with plenty of room to expand. There is a great area for showcasing individual escorts on the home page, and plenty of room for bios, rates, services, and more. PRICE $65
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Showcase Escorts
This upscale animated FLASH template with sound, will show your customers just how classy and discreet your escort agency really is. With full-page layouts for your various escorts, the template does a perfect job of showing off what is best about your agency. Easy to customize and navigate, this sexy template is truly first class. PRICE $120
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Beautiful Escorts
The easy plug and play design of this sexy template make it simple to customize to any size escort agency. There is plenty of room to display photos of your beautiful escorts, and to add important rate and service information as well. PRICE FREE
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Dynamic Escorts
A sexy high tech animated FLASH template with amazing graphics. This template offers plenty of room to display escort photos, service and rate information, and a contact page too. Fully customizable, this template would be perfect for an escort agency that is large or small. PRICE $67
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Intriguing Escorts
Draw your visitors in with beautiful picture galleries of you various escorts. With the adjustment of a few page headings and photos, this sexy template can be ready to serve any size escort agency. With an animated FLASH design, and sound built in, you are sure to impress. PRICE $66
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Escorts Revealed
This dynamic website template can be easily customized to meet the needs of your agency. By simply tweaking a few pictures and page headings, your website could be ready to go in an hour or less. This layout is easy to navigate, and your customers will appreciate the ease. PRICE FREE
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Escort Bling
This sexy animated FLASH template with sound can perfectly showcase your escorts, rates, services, and more. With its glitzy graphics and simple layout, your visitors will see what they want, and be easily directed to your contact page. PRICE $70
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Showtime Escorts
This beautifully animated FLASH template has a breathtaking intro that will captivate your visitors. With room to show off all of your escorts and agency details, this template will have visitors hooked before the intro is even over. An easy to customize design, allows you to simply and quickly change any information on the site. PRICE $66
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To catch the attention of the visitors to your website, you need a wine FLASH template that will make them stop in their tracks. These 10 outstanding FLASH templates for your wine business, are designed to perfectly accommodate your company whether it is large or small. If you are looking for an elaborate design or just a simple cut to the chase look, there are templates here that will fit your style.

Sunrise Vineyard
An artsy wine business template with a full size picture covering the home page. This animated FLASH template comes complete with sound, and easy to navigate subheadings that will point your customers in the right direction. PRICE $66
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Wine Menu
This unique FLASH template in the form of a menu will beautifully showcase your wine business. With news and other information on the home page, it entices the reader to look further into the site. There are simple page headings already in place, and there is plenty of room to grow with this animated site. PRICE $56
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Country Vineyard
A free FLASH template that can be arranged to highlight the very best about your wine business. With a scrollable information bar on the front page, there is room to place specials, important news, or an eye catching graphic, to entice visitors to read more. PRICE Free
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Book of Wine
This animated FLASH template is a true bargain for the price. It is hard to call this a template, because it more like a work of art. This template acts as a book,and visitors have the option of turning the pages, or clicking the clearly outlined page headings at the top of the screen. Beautiful graphics and a stunning layout combine to make this luxurious template. PRICE $68
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Classic Winery
This classic template has a simple layout for those who want to focus more on their wine business, and are less concerned with the frills. There is a beautiful FLASH animated page transition in place, and this would be a wonderful template for a beginner. PRICE $60
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Simple Wine Business
With the adjustment of some images and the basic page headings, this simplistic template could be easily transitioned to a wine business. Easy to setup and simple to navigate, this template is perfect for a business that is just starting out. PRICE Free
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Sleek Winery
Classy FLASH animation and a sleek layout give this template the means to showcase a wine business with a larger inventory. The sound capabilities and easy to navigate layout provide customers with a relaxing environment while they shop. PRICE $66
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Old World Winery
An informative home page draws visitors into the site with glimpses of products, company news, and more. With nice animated FLASH designs, this template is not too flash or too simple, and is perfect for both large and small companies. PRICE $50
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Grapes
This easy to use template can be catered to any type of wine business with its adjustable page headings, and blog like layout. This customer friendly template design is perfect for wine businesses that are just starting out. PRICE Free
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Picture Perfect Winery
The large number of images that are able to be displayed throughout the preset pages of this sophisticated layout, make it perfect for vineyard wine businesses that wish to showcase the beauty of their land. The simple layout mixed with the array of images form a classic layout perfect for any size company. PRICE $64
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If you are in need of an eye catching political template that will grab the attention of visitors and make you soar to the top of the search engines, then you have come to the right place. The sophisticated, unique, and breathtaking templates that you will find here can do just that. These professional templates are perfect for individual candidates, any political party, or informed citizens who have an interest in discussing the political issues.

A mixture of HTML, FLASH, and animated FLASH must have political templates can be found here for your review. After all, the right template can make or break a site, and that’s why a high impact template like the ones found below are essential for your website to succeed.

Clear Politics
This clear and decisive layout is easy to navigate, and is perfect for any political candidate or anyone involved in campaigning. This layout is fully loaded and ready to go. PRICE $64
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Patriotic Politics
This beautifully laid out FLASH template would serve members of any political party, and sports a simple layout loaded with key features. Add content and go with this patriotic layout. PRICE $64
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Political Party #020
This basic FLASH website template is setup to accomodate individuals of any political party, and can accomodate several different candidates as well. It has four integrated pages and room to grow. PRICE FREE
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Constitution
This HTML website template is full of features that can be used to promote multiple candidates. A variety of setup pages and interactive features make this template easy to use. PRICE $59
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Monumental Politics
This animated FLASH template has plenty of options that would work for a candidate of any political party. With built in interactive donation and volunteer buttons, and preloaded pages, just upload and add content to get started. PRICE $49
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USA
This unique animated FLASH website template is stunning and would work well for any political candidate. Fully customizable, this template could easily be adapted to a political party by simply changing the page titles’ names. PRICE FREE
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Simply Political
A concise website that is utter simplicity. It doesn’t get any cleaner or easier than this. A wonderful FLASH template with built in sound and other functions, this template is ready to go! PRICE $70
Demo / Download

Sophisticated Politics
A sophisticated website template that is setup to showcase a political candidates’ policy. Basic pages are already in place as well as a subscription feature, just upload your content and images and you are done. PRICE $68
Demo / Download

USA Company
This detailed FLASH template has glimpses of each page on the home page, to entice visitors to explore further into your website. Originally created as a business template, it can be turned into a grand political template by tweaking a few of the page and header names. PRICE FREE
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Stars and Stripes
This exquisite animated FLASH template will be sure to impress all of your visitors, and it can be used to feature a single candidate or an entire political party. A clean layout adds to the animated effects of this template to produce a stunning effect. PRICE $120
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I’ve been using Mambo / Joomla for about 5 years on various sites that I’ve made for different clients. You could always find a free Joomla template, change the CSS around, add a new header and slap together a fairly good looking site in under half day. This morning, I downloaded the latest stable, installed it and then begun looking around for free 1.5 compatible Joomla skins…..

It was a complete waste of time, and if you don’t want to throw away half of your own day searching for a free Joomla 1.5 template, then this is all you need to know; there are none. Actually, there aren’t many good paid templates that are 1.5 compatible either. The best one I could find is Weblogic from Joomlashack (which looks great in the blog layout) demonstrated below;

It does look very ‘newsy’, but it’s flexible enough to be used for a portal or blog, and it comes in 5 different colors. It represents excellent value for $39.95. This easily the best 1.5 Joomla Template around. The only reason you might not buy it is that because it’s one of the only good 1.5 templates on the market, and therefore every man and his dog will probably use it.

If you are determined to find a Free Joomla 1.5 Template read on…

At the end of last year, the Joomla developers ran a Joomla 1.5 Template Competition. I’m not sure if they’ve announced a winner, but the last time I looked (which was this morning) JA Purity by JoomlArt was winning by a mile - it is a nice template, the only problem is that once you install it you can’t select it from the administrator backend - I’ve tried this a few times, and double checked my download link and I still get “template not found” error message…

Still, might be worth a try (and the problem might have been fixed by the time I make this post)… and it does seem to be working for everyone else.

RedEvo_Aphelion by Red Evolution (pictured below) has the second most votes, but it’s a pretty ordinary attempt. It’s clean looking and easy to navigate, but it’s not going to blow anyone’s socks off, but remember it is free - you can download it here

Spend a bit more time trawling the web for “Joomla 1.5 Templates”, and you’ll no doubt stumble accross Site Ground- nearly all their templates look the same. This one (I’m not sure what it’s called) is the pick of the bunch - only because it’s a good blank canvas to start with. Spend a bit of time on the header you could make a decent looking site out in less than half an hour. HINT: if you are looking for a header graphic, try Free Web Page Headers.

Even less impressive is Joomla 24 - they’ve got 93 Free templates listed and ALL of them are rubbish. In fact, only about 25% of them are 1.5 compatible and most of those are listings from Siteground. GROAN.

Best of Joomla have a few more of the contest entries listed, I initially missed this entry on the competition forum;

There’s a few odd things going on here. The graphic is terrible and there’s too many colours happening at once -but with a little refinement (a new header graphic and a bit of time tweaking the CSS) and you’d be left with a really nice looking template (demo / download via Best of Joomla).

CMS Lounge have a couple of completely Free 1.5 Joomla templates available….

This one would probably look okay if you sniff enough paint thinner. If you want to give that a go, you can download it for free here.

Higher Grounds (pictured below) also by CMS Lounge might keep you out of trouble if are running a simple blog with your Joomla installation (download here).

… and that’s about it for Free Joomla 1.5 Templates (at least that’s all I could find). If you know of any great 1.5 templates that are free to use (and work), please post links in the comments section below.

Premium Jooma 1.5 Templates

After looking at all of my available options, I thought stuff it, I’m going to actually have to buy a template. This normally isn’t a bad option (especially when you can find exactly what you’re after). I had a look on Template Monster and even they appear to only have 4 x 1.5 compatible Joomla Templates - they all stink and two of them are themed around Valentines Day (i.e. about as useful as lips on a chicken).

Joomla Capital have a few nice designs, they are reasonably priced, and unlike other sites ALL of their templates are Joomla 1.5 compatible. Yay!

JC Rome (pictured below) is probably the pick of the bunch (Demo)

And that’s about it. The only other option you have is to buy an old 1.0 template and get someone on Rentacoder to convert it for you. Either that or you could learn how to do it yourself. There’s an excellent article here - (courtesy of Compass Designs) which explains how you can create a blank template, how to usse CSS to create a tableless layout and provides a few tips on working with Joomla 1.5 Template features. If you are going to give this a go, then I’d suggest downloading this blank skeleton template (registration required) which should give you a few basic foundations to work with.

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The concept of Web 2.0 is fairly broadly defined as a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, blogs, and wikis - in other words, just about everything on the web today that isn’t a brochure website. Without getting bogged down in semantics, it would seem fairly pointless to lug all blog websites into the Web 2.0 category - in my opinion, a web service that allows people to blog, or provides widgets or hosted services for blogging are very much web 2, while a typical blog that allows users to comment about a post about their dog really isn’t. Communities and social networking sites are other examples. In the same way that everything on the web can’t or shouldn’t be “Web 2.0″, there needs to be some sort of clarification as to what makes a good Web 2.0 website design.

Axialis have some interesting Web 2.0 icon sets (some which are free to download) which typify features of a Web 2.0 site - these kits provide a way for user to create large icons for standard website features like RSS feed links. These icons and “badges” are also an excellent match for the larger font sizes which are typically part of a stunning web 2.0 aesthetic.

Clearly defined heading areas, large but bold and simple logos, large text and use of innovations like tag clouds are all features that most people would associated with Web 2.0. - Surprisingly, we started looking around for some truly unique Web 2.0 Templates so far we’ve been sorely dissapointed. There are a few good web 2.0 templates over at Joomla Shack - the Aqualine Reloaded Template, the Weblogic Template Set and Element templates are especially nice, but they only cater to Joomla users…. Template Monster seem to have lumped a whole bunch of stuff into their web 2.0 category - most of them are also featured in business categories and else where on the site. Even the templates that do look “web 2.0″ don’t really feature icons or font choices that you’d associate with cutting edge web 2.0 design. Out of more than 100 so called “web 2.0 templates“, these are the pick of the bunch:

An animated Swish Template suitable for any sort of technology or communications firm. PRICE: $55

DEMO / DOWNLOAD | CUSTOMIZE

A simple CSS / HTML design, but it has clear navigational elements and large easy to push buttons. This one would be great for a software firm looking to brand and sell a particular product. PRICE: $62

DEMO / DOWNLOAD | CUSTOMIZE

A full Flash 8 site web package with an interesting layout - perfect for a business solutions company or a consulting firm. PRICE: $65

DEMO / DOWNLOAD | CUSTOMIZE

This more generic style CSS / HTML template could be used for just about anything. It’s simple, elegant and completely web 2.0. We love it. PRICE $63

DEMO / DOWNLOAD | CUSTOMIZE

A clear header area with simple but effective Flash navigation, use of large fonts, and tag clouds make this a perfect for podcasting, or any sort of category driven downloads site. PRICE: $64

DEMO / DOWNLOAD | CUSTOMIZE

Doesn’t look like much from the screen shot, but use of Flash creates a really nice feel around this beautiful looking template which is oozing with white space. PRICE: $62

DEMO / DOWNLOAD | CUSTOMIZE

If you know of any other Web 2.0 resources, please post a comment below.

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A few days ago, we looked at Flash 8 band website templates and how you can get a band website up and running for under a few hundred bucks. Another option, (and this could very well be the sensible thing to do - it would be much easier to maintain over time) is to set up your own Joomla Website. If you haven’t heard of Joomla before you’ll be amazed that you can download this content management software for free. At the time of writing, the Joomla community had just announced the laucnh of the latest Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. On first impressions it looks very nice.

Setting up your own Joomla band website might sound complicated, but it’s not. Once you have your domain and hosting sorted (refer to the previous post), you can easily find someone on Rentacoder to set up your Joomla site for you. The great thing about a Joomla site is that you can maintain a lot of the content yourself - you can even setup polls, login forms, news sections, who’s online, and much more. It’s very easy to uuse and it’s always good to get your visitors involved in your website. The more you can get them involved, the better off your band will be in the long run as for as getting your music heard. If you opt for a flash website (which is great if you want to brand your website) you might run into problems with updating your content over time, or as your band gains popularity. A Joomla website is definitely a viable alternative to a traditional Flash or HTML website.

If you do decide to head down the Joomla path - we’d recommend you install the following “plugins” and “modules” (in plain language; stuff to make your website better). You can rent a coder who will have no problem setting up your Joomla website and installing any of the following extensions:

Gig Calender (FREE GNU GPL) - gigCalendar is the world’s first free solution for maintaining a
Joomla website’s touring calendar. Maintaining a calendar for your bands tour dates has never been easier.

All Videos Plugin - (FREE) - Upload your videos to Youtube and then display them within the content on your site.

Joomla SEF patch - (FREE) - This patch makes your Joomla site more search engine friendly, which means it will be easier for people to find you on the web using Google or Yahoo search.

Frontpage Slide Show (22 EUROS) - You don’t need a Flash website to impress your fans - with this slideshow creator you can make “uber-cool slideshow with text snippets laying on top of images, in a variety of templates”.

You can also save loads of time on design (which can cost a fortune) by downloading a ready made Joomla website band template from the Internet. Here’s a few we found at Template Monster and a few other Joomla template sites. In no particular order……

1. Inspire

This Joomla site template has a great glossy look, and everything is user friendly for your visitors. They won’t have any trouble getting around your site, and overall the template looks great! I especially like the particular colors used within this design. PRICE: $45

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

2. Grunge

Looking for a Joomla template to match the look of your grunge band? Look no further because this template definitely has what it takes to draw in attention. This template has it all, and other than that what else can you hope for? PRICE: $49.95 Gives you access to this template and more!

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

3. Black is Back

This slick black template would be great for any band to call home on the internet. The black background really makes the white and light blue text pop out, and gives this template a lot of style. If you are in to the simplier, yet sophisticated looking templates then you should definitely give this one a peek. FREE

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

4. Get The Guitar

Guitars often define a band so why not let the guitar define your website as well? This design is classic, yet it still gives off the presence of a band. The unique color combinations set it above the rest as well! PRICE: $49.95 Gives you access to this template and more!

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

5. Simple Site

Don’t want all the clutter of fancy graphics and want your content to speak for itself? If that’s the case then I highly reccomend this simple template for you to look at it. It has enough to let the visitors know its a music site, but without having to load anything unneccessary. Trust me when I say dial-up users will thank you for it!

PRICE: $49.95 Gives you access to this template and more!

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

6. Jazz it up a little!

Jazz bands need websites too! Here is the perfect template for those of you who want to show that you play the blues online. The blue template is defintely appropriate for the situation, but the color really adds a great look to the site even if it wasn’t fitting the jazz/blues theme. If your band fits into this genre then you certainly can’t go wrong with this template. PRICE: $49.95 Gives you access to this template and more!

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

7. Punk It

This Joomla template would be great for a punk or alternative style band. It’s fun, fresh, and has a lot of personality in the design. I especially like the splash effect on the home page! FREE

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Previously, we showed you how you could get a Financial Services Website up and running in under a week (link). If you haven’t read this guide yet, then you should. It could save you thousands of dollars. We’ve also been scouting around to find some more financial services web templates - we found 10 more excellent finance themed templates (free & paid).

1. Busy Business

Here’s a snazzy looking Flash Site template that could be easily used for your financial service business. Having an attractive website can be the difference between a returning client, and just a visitor. This template can handle that for you with no problems! Best of all…it’s FREE!

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

2. Moving Mortgages

Use this Swish Animated finance template to land your next customer in a home loan! Everything is out in the open in this template and that is what I like about it most. It is extremely user-friendly and easy on the eyes. PRICE: $60

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

3. Salute Solutions

Want to go the HTML route?…you got it! This is nothing but html used within this template so you are guarenteed fast loading times on any connection that your visitor may have. Editing html templates is as simple as it gets, so if you are an inexperienced user this is perfect for you. FREE

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

4. A Site That Delivers

The professional look of this template says it all. Not only that, but this template is a CSS Static Full Site! That means you get everything you need to start your site right out of the box. It doesn’t get any easier that this. PRICE: $65

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

5. Fine Finances

Offer your services with this simple yet classy CSS Static Full Site template. The light blue text grabs your visitors attention and pulls it towards your featured services. That way your clients immediately know what your business is all about in only a few seconds of browsing you website. PRICE: $64

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

6. Sleek Solutions

This CSS Full Site Flash 8 template is very attractive to the eye. The colors are great and the icons on the navigation menu fit perfectly for the template. Also, if you are not wanting a flash template this comes with a full non-flash version as well! PRICE: $65

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

7. Finance It!

This Swissh Animated template is truly perfect for any finance website. It has everything you need and more! The graphics are the most appealing part of the template to me. This was well designed, and would make a perfect website for your financial company. PRICE: $52

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

8. Bank On It

Have an online banking business? If so, then this could be the template you have been searching for. The layout is clean, simple, and effective. I would be happy to let this CSS Static Full Site template be the face of my business because I would know that I was being represented well. PRICE: $63

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

9. Friendly Support

Invite your visitors to use your companies services with a smile. A friendly approach never hurt anyone, and it will actually make your visitors more likely to become a client if they feel they can trust you like a friend. This template is great for just that. It gets even better because this template can easily be edited by beginners and advanced webmasters. FREE

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

10. Qualified Management

This Full Site Flash 8 template immediately lets your users know the key points of your business within the first few minutes of browsing. Let your website do the talking for you with this excellently designed template. Having a website like this is a no fail situation!PRICE: $61

DOWNLOAD / DEMO

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Any self respecting band has a website - a Myspace band page is not a bad way to communicate with your fan base (if you have fans), but there’s a lot of stuff you can do with a real website that you can’t achieve on Myspace. For instance, you could set up a mailing list and capture the details of your prospective fans by offering them a free download of one of your tracks. Once you have their details, you can let them know about all your upcoming events with a personalised and fully automated email system. Making a good first impression is also important and you don’t have to spend a fortune on a web designer. If you can play a guitar or the keyboards, chances are you’re probably clever enough to set up your own website (just don’t leave it up to the drummer). Here’s how you can make your own band website in 5 simple steps without eating into your studio budget:

1) Decide on a band name. This band name generator is lots fun - I’ve decided on ‘Vagina Wrath Of The Drastic Lunch‘, but I’m sure you can find something with more marketing nous….

2) Register your domain with Moniker - vaginawrathofthedrasticlunch.com (or whatever you’ve decided to call your band). Set up your name servers to point to your new host… (Moniker support can help you out with this - just email support@moniker.com after you setup your account).

3) PAIR - world class web hosting. A basic account is only $9.95 a month, which should be fine until you become and moderately successful pushing your traffic through the roof.

4) Post a job on Rentacoder - post a bid request and find someone to put your website together on the cheap. Give them your band info, files (including any music you want hosted, your server access details, band photos, etc). Explain that you have a template already and that they don’t need to design anything - you should be able to find someone in Romania, India or the Philippines to put your band website together for about $75 (up to $125 depending on modifications to the template and the number of pages you want on your site).

5) While you are waiting for bid requests to come in (from people bidding to complete your work), check out some of the Flash band website templates that we found on Template Monster and some other sites (below - Free & Paid). Find one that suits your style, and then upload the zip file package to the coder who is working on your website (step 4). If you’re highly organised, you should be able to get your band website up and running in under 2 days for less than $200.

1. Rock Your Bones

This Flash Site Template has a smooth rocking style to it with colors that pop out at you. If your band plays rock or alternative music then this template is certainly worth taking a look at. PRICE: $68

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

2. Feeling Funky

This is a really nice looking flash template, and it also happens to be free! I really like the easy to navigate layout, plus spotlights in the top part of the flash add a nice superstar-like quality to the website. It may not have all the bells and whistles you are looking for, but the template is highly customizable. FREE

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3. Totally Chic

This Flash Site Template is perfect for any girl band out there looking to get stylish website going. The colors are bright, the site is easy to navigate, and the music is smooth. What else would you want for you and your fellow chics? PRICE: $60

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

4. Simplistic Style

This particular Flash Site Template wasn’t really made for a band, but can certainly work as a band website by simpy customizing it a bit. The layout is clean and simple, and on a major positive it loads really fast for all visitors. All you have to do is add band pictures and information then you are good to go! FREE

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5. Put the Hip in HipHop

Keep the flow going on your website with this hip new hiphop flash template. This site is simple, yet packs enough of a punch to please you and your fans. You can easily add important information like your tour dates and album releases. PRICE: $69

DEMO / DOWNLOAD

6. Keep It Mellow

Bask in the ambience of this calming Flash Site Template. It’s simple, yet has no problems giving your band an awesome presence. This template is pretty versatile and can be used for your techno, rock, or alternative band. PRICE: $67
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7. Retro

I like this Flash template because it has a really cool look to it. You are able to add all the information about the band, etc. but you can also allow visitors to sign up for your bands newsletter. This is a great way to keep them informed and coming back to the site often. Plus, who can resist the cute little dog in the bottom right of the template? PRICE: $64
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8. Theres No Alternative To This

If you have an Alternative band then this is the flash website template for you. The animation effects are great and the colors match perfectly to any Alternative band’s style. One of my favorite qualities of this template has to be the navigation menu. The picture doesn’t do it justice because you have to see it in action, so check it out on the following link. PRICE: $67
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9. Be Different

This Flash site template adds a unique look to your website. I have truly never seen a design like this before. The rotating navigational menu is really cool, and the rest of the template keeps a nice flow going. It’s very user friendly for your visitors, and I am sure they will bookmark a site that looks this good. PRICE: $69
DEMO / DOWNLOAD

10. Style For a Mile

This Flash site template is great for any techno or dance music band. The template immediately gets you moving with the intro music…plus the overall design is extremely inviting. A great benefit of using this template is that there is a section specifically for selling tickets online, and a downloads section as well. This is a great way to get your music out there! PRICE: $67
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11. Full of Flavor

The title means what it says…this template is full of flavor. The smooth and cool animations give off a very stylish appearance. Although I think this template would best fit a HipHop band, it could really go for any genre as long as it fits your personality. PRICE: $63
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12. Make It Metal

Is your band playing music that falls along the lines of old rock or heavy metal? No problem! Here’s the perfect template to represent you and your band in the right manner. You seriously can’t go wrong with this Flash Site. PRICE: $66
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Set up your own professional looking Financial Services Website, complete with dynamic content and valuable tools in under a week (for under $300)

Thinking about creating your own financial services website? Have you thought about doing it yourself? Maybe you’ve requested quotes from a web designers who are trying to charge you through the nose for a basic site. Maybe you’re that designer and you’re trying to make a quick buck out of Finance Company… whatever the circumstance is, you’ve obviously found this article because you’re looking to make a Financial Services website. If this is the case, the information below is going to be useful, if not, you should leave, click on my ads, or simply stand back in awe.

Step 1 - Getting Started

Decide what you want your website to do? Is it just a brochure site with information about your company or does it actually have to do something fancy? (If it’s the later, read on, otherwise jump to step 2).

Step 2 - Adding ‘Fancy Stuff’ to your website

I’m obviously not in finance, but for the sake of the argument, lets pretend that I want to have stock market ticker on my website to give it a little extra authority. The stock market looks fancy, and people will trust you if they can see your provide up to date information on your website. I did a quick search and found this excellent ‘Market Movers’ Stock Ticker on Quote Media.

For a small fee (and a few minutes of your time adding a bit of Javascript to your page) you can seamlessly integrate dynamic information like this with your existing content. There are a number companies like Quote Media, it pays to shop around. There are plenty of free scripts around, but finding a reliable data feed is sometimes a problem.

Right now you’re probably thinking, “hang on, but I don’t have a website yet”. Sometimes it’s easiest to do things the wrong way round, I’ll explain more as we go along…

To give another example, I have also decided that I want to add a mortgage calculator to my website. You could pay a few thousand dollars to get someone to build one of these for you, or you could just Google ‘free mortgage calculator scripts‘ - in under 5 minutes, I found this one.

You can download it, and run it on just about any Apache Server (if you don’t know what that is don’t worry). You can find just about any you might need for your new finance website by searching on Google. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel (or in this case the humble mortgage calculator) - work with existing resources, you’ll save time and bucket loads of cash.

Back to Step 1 - decide what you want your website to do, and then do a Google Search. Need a Crude Oil Invoicing Estimator, search for it. Chances are someone has built one before. Once you’ve found all the resources you want to include on your website, make a list of them in a notepad file or spreadsheet. Include the website address and any notes about how you might need the components modified.

Step 3 - Organise the content for your site

Actually, you don’t want to do that - you’re a big finance guy and organizing information about your company is grunt work? Get your assistant to do it. Actually, you may as well just stop now and get your assistant to manage building your entire website. If they stuff it up you can easily fire them and hire someone who can read instructions.

In one word document gather all the information about your company, you services, contact info, etc. Create one page for each page of your website. Also include notes about functionality. For example, “on this page, a visitor should be able to request a quote for a home loan. The following information is required, bla bla bla and the quote request should go through to our sales department”, etc.

Step 4 - Choose a look and feel for your website

Again, you don’t need to hire a fancy designer, just find a template that’s a good fit for your company and then get Template Tuners to modify it. They can add your business logo and make changes to images or layout on most Template Monster Templates - pump your order through and you should have your template (complete with changes) in under a few days.

There’s over 200 Business website Templates on the Monster, here’s a few we thought would suit a Financial Services Website:

News Portal my arse. This has Finance written all over it (HTML). PRICE: $55
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Orange is good. It’s bold and people trust Orange. I think, I can’t remember if that’s true or not. This template looks nice though. It’s the full package with a few bells and whistles, which makes it excellent value (HTML and Flash 8.) PRICE: $67
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Do the people at your company look like this? If so, this template is probably the right one for you. Full Site (HTML and SWISH). PRICE: $50
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If you don’t like any of these, have a look around on Template Monster.

STEP 5 - Bring it all together

(In as few words as possible) - If you have a domain and hosting already skip the next sentence. If you don’t have a domain find one using Picky Domains and then register it at Moniker - if you have an existing host, dump them and get an account with Pair (simply set your nameservers at Moniker to use the Pair nameservers and then add your domain there in the control panel). Once you’ve got your domain and hosting set up, post a job on Rentacoder - click on Request Bids - set the budget for about $200 - zip your files up (word document, template, and features list - Steps 2,3,4) - In bid request description box write something like “I want someone to build my website. Each page in my word document is a page of my site, I’ve got a template and need the features listed in the notepad (or spreadsheet) implemented on the indicated pages. The website must be fully functional, and all the scripts tested and you’ll have to set up our email, and upload the site to our server”.

Select a Coder who has completed more than 5 jobs and has a rating of 9.5 of above (have a look at their profile to see feedback from previous buyers). Escrow the money (you don’t have to pay them until the work is complete and you are 100% satisfied), and then sit back and watch your website come together.

Pretty easy huh? Now you know why everyone wants to be a web designer.

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… and how to go about creating your own Real Estate Website.

There is simply no better way for many millions of buyers and sellers to find houses and properties then online. You might have noticed that there are very few realty agents who haven’t made the shift to the online world - it’s the perfect way to manage listings and promote other service. People from all over the world can discover listings in all parts fo the world, and they’ll also have access to information about your business and agent profiles. A realty website is like a business card on steroids - actually, that’ not a fair comparison. A website is, in the modern age the most valuable tool any real estate business can have (apart from maybe it’s staff). In short, if you’re a realty business and you don’t have a website yet - you need to act now.

If you’re wondering how you can build your website, there are a few things to keep in mind.

1) Don’t get somebody local to build your website from the ground up (unless you have an exceptionally talented in house IT person who can put your website together quickly). There are a number of different real estate website packages that are easy to install and set up. Some popular scripts, which will run on most Apache servers include:

- Real Estate Manager - $39.95

- iRealty Soft - $219

- The Real Estate Script - $59.95

2) If you’re thinking “I don’t know a thing about setting up a script” then relax. Create a job on Rentacoder and get somebody else to do it for you. It will cost about $20 for someone to install the script for you. Create an account, click on ‘request bids’ and then follow the steps. If you haven’t used Rentacoder before you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to outsource work to all parts of the world. Romanian and Russian Federation coders are usually the best… that’s a massive sweeping generalisation, take it or leave it. Indian and Pakistani coders might be cheap, but you’ll soon find out why.

3) Web hosting - I’ve been working on websites for the past 10 years. I’ve had so many bad hosting experiences that when you have a good one, you really take notice. PAIR are exceptionally good value. They really are world class and their support is great - they don’t make any absurd promises, but they do ALWAYS reply in a timely fashion. Their hardware and software is up to date and you don’t really need to know any more - PAIR is, in my opinion, the best web host around.

4) Select a template from Template Monster and then get Template Tuners to customize it for you. Template Tuning convert pre-designed web sites (web templates) purchased with Template Monster or into your unique web site - they can add your own business logo, photos of your team or whatever. Just give them a brief online and leave the work up to them. This will normally cost $100 - $200 depending on the amount of work required - don’t go crazy in the beginning, get something simple together and leave the bells and whistles until later on.

5) Once you’ve got your template finished and you’re complete happy with it, go back to Rentacoder and create a new job for someone to integrate your Template with your new backend system. It’s actually fairly simple to do and you should be able to find someone to do it for about $50. Once this last step is completed, you should be ready to start using your new site. Note: We assumed that the example Real Estate Business already has a website domain to work with… if not, get Picky Domains to search for one for you, it costs $50 - but you get your money back if you aren’t happy with the suggestions. Once you’ve found something you are happy with, register the domain at Moniker and point you name servers to PAIR where you can add your domain, and email accounts.

It’s that simple - in less than a week and for under $500 you can have a brand new Real Estate website up and running. You’ve already seen how powerful outsourcing can be. As a final step, you could hire a virtual assistant to manage your business by uploading new property listings and rentals. They could even update the new website with valuable information about your team and business. Compare this with any quote from a local company and you’ll see why outsourcing, and website like Template Monster are such a valuable asset.

There are over 300 Real Estate Website Templates available on Template Monster - There are full site templates, Flash 8 Packages and prices range from $60 up to a few thousand (if you want the unique rights to that template). We don’t recommend buying the rights to a template as you can always customize your template to give your own unique look and feel.

Browsing through over 300 Templates is a waste of everyone’s time - we’ve found some of the best Real Estate templates below. Find the one that fits your business and then get started. Here’s the best 8 absolutely smashing Real Estate Website Templates:

1.

Simple clean lines and lots of white space. Would look good with most business logos. PRICE: $65

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Animated Swish Template, great value for money. PRICE $55

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3.

This is a simple HTML Website, with very effective use of CSS - easy to integrate with Real Estate Scripts. PRICE: $62

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A full Flash 8 website package for just a great price. Compare this with how much it would cost you to get a web designer to make something like this for you. Outstanding value. PRICE: $68

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This one is an absolute classic. Our pick of the bunch. Great navigation and elegant colour scheme with some nice usage of Flash on this full site website template package. PRICE: $58

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This full site Flash and HTML website template provides a unique way for you to showcase your most important properties. PRICE: $66

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This is different, but very memorable - this full package website template makes a great first impression, which is important to any Real Estate agent. PRICE: $64

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Some thing full package template would be perfect for a full service agency or property developers looking to sell off the plan. PRICE: $96

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