Planning and creating a wedding website used to be a challenge. For many people the first requirement was to learn HTML or at least learn how to use an HTML editor such as Front Page or Dreamweaver. That alone was enough to derail many hopeful (yet non-professional) wedding website designers. Once the coding language was learned, there was the added task of learning how to size, resize, upload, and manipulate photos. Some of the most important and meaningful aspects of even having this type of Internet space is being able to share photos with family and friends. This is especially important for those individuals who for whatever reason are not able to attend the ceremony and the other events such as the reception or bridal shower.
For those who managed to learn coding and graphics, there was still the problem of finding a good Internet hosting provider. It was easy enough to find space on the Internet, but the space was usually completely empty until you put something in it, and that meant designing all sorts of pages and photo galleries. Many of these pages would serve special purposes (if the person had enough training to actually code them properly). Some of these special pages might be dedicated to such things as guest books, gift registry, important news on upcoming events, schedule changes, maps and directions for out of town guests, so forth.
All in all, designing a wedding website was a lot of work and there was no guarantee that the pages or the site as a whole would work properly or have the unique look and feel that the happy couple wanted to present. In other words, the entire time-consuming process could fall short of the couple's initial vision and end up being rather costly as well.
But times have changed and there are now a few online wedding website companies that can be a huge help for couples planning to tie the knot and wanting to showcase the special event on the Internet. However, finding the perfect company to work with can be a bit tricky.
When you begin searching for such a service, keep in mind that you want to work with a company that offers you all of the important tools and features you will need in order to complete your project in an easy and timely manner. You want to work with a service that has already done the hard work for you. An example of this would be a service that offers quality, professional, pre-designed templates. This gives you a starting point so that you can quickly create your website without time-consuming coding sessions or graphics design skills. You also want to avoid the cookie cutter companies by finding one that will allow you to fully customize your templates in order to give your pages the look that is uniquely yours.
How easy it the service to use? Your wedding website should be a planning tool, not another planning burden. You don't want to spend hours trying to figure out how your wedding website service works.
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Having a place to plan your wedding and stay in touch with your guests (without having to constantly send out updates through traditional means - telephone, snail mail, etc.) can be a huge time-saver, for both you AND your guests.
Wedding websites are becoming so popular now that there are now a number of web design companies specializing in wedding sites - offering competitive pricing and an array of useful wedding-related tools and features.
For example, you can offer your guests the option of RSVPing online via your website, signing your online guestbook, or printing out driving directions, maps and other details for the big day. Why not put some links to area attractions and day trips on the site as well?
Other features offered by wedding website services include the ability to upload your favorite photos to your site, a countdown timer to the date of your wedding, and a "Contact Us" form so that your guests can reach you by email.
Some firms even offer an online "poll" feature - you could invite your guests to vote on where they think you should spend your honeymoon, for example.
The best part about wedding web sites these days is that the price is more affordable than ever due to some healthy competition between design firms.
As I found out, signing up for one of these website services is a *lot* less expensive than hiring a web designer to create a site from scratch for you. Just choose your domain name, favorite template and color palette, and you could have a site up in under an hour.
In addition, nearly all of the companies that I've looked at offer a free trial of their service with no credit card required - a great way to find out if a wedding web site can make YOUR life a little easier!
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