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March 11, 2008
Well - the title says it all! A Free BANS Template, that I don’t like! Essentially, I only ran a quick sepia tone change and made it kinda brown… I won’t get into describing the exact brown color, but suffice to say… well, I won’t say it.
Honestly, I am sure there are many people that can use this template… thus it is going up! By the end of the week, I have a total of about 6-8 of this template in different colors. At some point, I will upload all of them and you can all have at them! The most important thing about these templates is that they provide great on page factors for SEO.
in this video, I also walk through applying for a related CJ partner program and adding the code to the header file.
Site: Cabinets for Sale
8 Responses to “Build a Niche Store Free Template #2 - Its UGLY!”
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Mark,
If we are using a regular template from BANS 3.0 and we have a custom header designed for us, is there anything we need to do to it in order to make it more “SEO friendly”?
Eric
Am I getting behind or what !
I am only on my second site, and am having trouble keeping up.
What to do now ?
I’m getting a “Not Found, Error 404″ when clicking on the “link to template”. I know you think it’s ugly, but the colors would be perfect for my site! Hope the link problem is temporary and you didn’t decide to scrap the template, because I really like it! :)
Hey Mark, I’m getting a 404 when I try to download the zip file. I’m curious to see how you are handling that ad.
Mark,
You make it look so easy to do those headers! Aaarrghh! But practice makes perfect, right?
I’m trying to figure out why finding a 728 header was important when you were looking for an affiliate program to join. I don’t see where you would have put a header of that size … or did you change your site design when you had trouble finding a suitable header?
I think I’m ready to try one of your templates once there is one of a suitable color. Keep ‘em coming!
Cindy
Mark,
If you think this is so ugly, why not trade out your darker “sepia” for a richer deeper brown? I think it would look better and be more versatile. You could probably keep the lighter shade or you could even make that more of a tan/beige color. Then you would have a brown theme that had more natural wood tones that would be great for any furniture-related store.
Cindy
Mark,
You suggest - somewhere :-) - that we validate our sites’ code so Google can read them OK but when I run mine at validator.w3.org I get 37 errors.
When I try and correct them in the BANS 3 HTML editor it just puts them right back when I save. It uses the ” tag and the validator doesn’t seem to like the forward slash
Should I be concerned? Can it be fixed?
James
Looks like the script ate my HTML :-(
The problem seems to be with the ‘break’ tag (left bracket, b, right bracket). The BANS editor adds a ‘/’ after the ‘b’.