6 Basic Web Design Tips For Beginners

Looking to create your first website? Or even you want to update an existing small business online. Few things you should consider first while designing a website. A study shows that number of small business were disappointed with their first website and feel that it has not delivered what they wanted. We hope that these five tips will help you to ask the right questions and get the best from your website.
 

Goal of Your Site

Whether you looking to create website for presence of your business online or looking to sell products through it. All you need to have a goal for your website; otherwise you risk getting the message lost, confusing visitors and losing business. Are you going to be selling a product online? Do you want to get data from your customers in the form of a newsletter sign up? Do you just want people to get in touch? If you don’t have a purpose for your website, there is no point in having one.

Content Management System (CMS)

CMS platforms have made it easy for small businesses to build a website in quick time which is easy to manage and faster to load. Go with open sources if your website is static and do not have much data to lock online. Many platforms such as Drupal and WordPress make it very easy for clients to have a Content Management System – meaning that you can easily edit the text, pictures and pages on your website. It also means that you don’t need to pay a web developer every time that you want to make a tiny change.

Content on Website

It is vitally important to think about the words on your website. If this is your first introduction to the world of online, make it memorable! Does some competitor research to see what they say about themselves? Note down anything you like and anything that you really don’t. It might be a good idea to get someone else to write the copy. Sometimes when it’s your business you’re writing about, it can be all too easy to get too caught up in it without stepping back and writing objectively. Always, always ask someone to proofread it!

Clear Pictures

please invest in some high quality pictures for your site. iStock or pixelated images are a poor reflection of your company. It is well worth paying a photographer $100 or so for some nice pictures that you can use for all of your branded materials.

Clean Design

Design clean website pages; use a quality font so that it is clearly readable to all. If you are looking to sell through your website make sure to segregate products “It’s better to have a showroom rather than a store room”. Each important page should be linked from home page, so that visitors find it easy to navigate and buy through your website.

How will people find you?

Before finalizing the website and making it live, take time to do some testing on your website. Install all important search engine friendly factors that help your website to rank on search engines pages. Once you’re website’s up and running, how are people going to find it? If you’re a local business, do some research into Google Local Places and set up a page. Get going with social media as well as it is fairly easy to build up a steady following. There is a wide range of information on the internet about search engine optimization. Be careful if you’re hiring a consultation make sure the company/person is expert in this field.

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