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Necessary Elements Of Website Development
Oct 18th
Most businesses can benefit from a good, online presence. Whether a website is used as an online portfolio and contact method or a more complex customer management and shopping cart doesn’t matter. What matters is that your website matches the professionalism of your organization. Many websites that fail to make the impact expected, fail because they are inaccessible or simply look unprofessional. The effectiveness of a website design comes down to a lot more than colours and code.
Quick To Load
Pages and page elements must be quick to load. A surfer’s attention span can be measured in seconds, and very few of them. Bearing in mind that while high speed Broadband connections have become much more popular, there are still a large number of people using 56k dialup modems. Masses of graphics and multiple streaming videos that play automatically will make a page slow to load. Poor design and coding can also cause a page to load slowly, along with an overloaded server, and excessive traffic.
Accessibility
Web site accessibility is vital and there are a number of facets that should be considered. At its core, accessibility means that the site should not be prone to regular outages. These are usually caused by unstable host servers but can be caused by poor programming and maintenance. Your site should also be accessible to people regardless of disabilities, usually overcome by providing the option to increase text size or have an audio version of your site. Check your site loads properly in all browsers, on all systems, to ensure the greatest possible level of accessibility. (more…)
Things To Consider When Developing A Website-Website Development
Aug 9th
In The Beginning…For Webmasters
Things To Consider When Developing A Website (Part1) Summary: The development of your online business website involves an important decision-making process. A key factor in the process is the consideration of how your visitors and potential clients or customers will interact with your site. The success of your website, and possibly your entire business rests on how you address that issue.
Once you’ve made the decision to create an online business, or to create a website for your existing business, there are a lot of things to do and consider. Name selection, domain registration, hosting, and website design are all a part of your decision-making. Today though, I want you to consider your website development relative to one important factor: the customer experience. Getting potential customers to visit your website is one thing. Getting them to stay long enough to look around your website, view your information and purchase your product or service is another matter entirely.
As you begin setting up your website, it’s imperative to your success that you consider the site’s development relative to its relationship to your potential customers. From the very start, you must view your website from the customer’s perspective. If you were your customer, why would you visit the website? What would you be looking for? What information would you consider beneficial? What problems, needs or desires would you have that the website helps you to solve? Get it? (more…)