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What should be included in a website design?
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A solid and simple organizational structure to contain all of the information should come first, just like a great paper starts with a good outline. Keep the user/customer in mind at all times. What do they want to learn or do on your website? Make that goal more important than any of the design elements. Design should enhance the structure and content. Simple is best. Choose high contrast colors that are easy to see even for people with forms of colorblindness, remember to include alt text for any images, a common default font, and anything else possible to provide an equivalent experience to all visitors regardless of their operating system, etc.
The number one ingredient in a web design should be SEO. Search Engine Optimization features are not something that can be sprinkled on after a website is built, like a garnish on a prepared dish of food. It needs to be built-in to the design from the initial stages.
I always tell my customers that websites should be built for search engines first, and visitors second. Why? Because it's search engines that bring visitors to your site- they don't appear by magic.
Once visitors land on your site, you want them to stay. They should immediately see an attractive site which is clear and understandable. There should be a single, obvious way of navigating your site- not multiple, confusing navigation methods that vary from page to page.
The objective of your site is a conversion. A conversion is the process of converting a website visit into something you want from them. It could be a sale, a contact, a newsletter signup, or whatever your site is targeting. Make your conversion button obvious. On my site, I want visitors to contact me, so I display a "Contact Us" button prominently on every page. You don't want visitors to visit, look around and leave. You want to convert them. Focus on conversions!
Place social media icons at top. Prompt the action you want visitors to take on all pages, for instance if ou want to set-up a consultation, make sure that a link to the consultation page or form is linked throughout the design on every page. Kepp your design layout and written content simple. Let your personality shine through.
It heavily depends on the type of business the site is meant for. The main task is to put upfront the info visitors are looking for. If it's a restaurant, visitors would be looking for hours of operation, driving directions, special offers. A shop would benefit from a peek of merchandise catalogue. If it is a site of online service, it should have features and pricing on a prominent place.
It often helps putting yourself in the visitors shoes: "if I were to use that service what i would be looking for on their site" most likely it wouldn't be mission statement, history of the company and some other general stuff.
If you are a web design company, you may consider having the following things:
* Slide show of your portfolio and link to special page having screen shots for each web site you built and description of what this site is for and what you did there;
* Services you provide - graphic design, development, consultation, support, project management, administration etc.
* Technologies you are working
* Contact info
* Social media links as an alternative way to connect with you
* Customer testimonials
Here is a simplified process for website development to think about:
1) Who is your target visitor and what is your unique selling proposition
2) Research keywords and phrases that have good search volume and fit your current competitiveness in terms of Page Rank and placement. Pick keywords/phrases and create a site structure with landing pages that are optimized for those keywords. Hint: try to finds keywords and phrases that reflect the biggest questions/pain your target visitors have.
3) Create a look and feel that makes your site a personal experience for each visitor. Also have conversion mechanisms, at least 3 on each landing page, so you convert visitors to leads.
4) Have marketing automation tools in place for follow up.
Have fun!
K I S S. This means, Keep-It-Simple-Smart.(Not stupid) All your questions regarding webdesign will be answered in a book called " Don't make me think" by Steve Krug.
Things which a website should have is to make it the best good visual design but not exceeding, thought full user interface,navigation clean and simple,Original and relevant content,A solid about page all these make a good website.
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Website design should focus on the target audience. Building a nice website will not generate traffic. Your design should focus on your audience and should be visible in the design. The best designs I seen have the audience and site purpose in the design without having to read into the site to figure it out. Also, integrating social media sign-in into your design.
Optimize better graphics to fast page load, keep the layout simple, navigation must be easy,colors must light avoid using many.
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