Over the years, the Internet has become equally important, if not more, in comparisons with TV, Radio and other mediums of communication. Among the many aspects of Information Technology; web design in particular is reaching staggering peaks with every passing day – everything from Literature to Music and from Sports to Religion is being inventively presented over the Internet. However, there are a great many websites out there which are “embarrassing” to say the least – they lack the design, content and ingenuity that’s required in order to be visited, re-visited, referred, talked about, emailed, tweeted and digged. The path to a better website begins with asking yourself, “does my website embarrass me?” and if the answer is yes, then you need to roll up your sleeves and start working.
Your Companies Website has to Make a Good First Impression
The saying, “first impression is the last impression” is as true for websites as it is for individuals – Whether or not a visitor continues to browse through your website depends entirely on how appealing and “attention-retaining” your web-design is. There are probably a plethora of websites out there offering the same products and services and therefore the most important question for any web designer is, “what can I do to separate my website from all the others?” If you separately Google the words “mortgage”, ”gardening” and “fitness” you will get about 134,000,000, 134,000,000 and 258,000,000 search results respectively.
As of 2008 Google has Indexed over 1 Trillion Unique web pages
In 2008 Google announced that it had indexed over a trillion unique URLs – this is just an idea of how tough the competition is out there and as a web designer you wouldn’t want to take your chances with an embarrassing design.
Its worth telling all “embarrassing web site owners” that along with having attention-retaining design; its painfully important to have a user-friendly interface and professionally written content. All of this should be geared towards improving traffic and ultimately adding to the bottom-line. Its probably a good idea to have a friend visit your website and report back to you with his brutally honest experience.
Why do you need a website?
Since there is an abundance of all sorts of online resources today, there should be absolutely no excuse for having a shoddy website. Start off by asking yourself, “why do I need a website?” and then chalk out a comprehensive design and optimization strategy which will include details such as, the number and type of pages, benefits and special features, website security, contact information, links, testimonials, complimentary blogs and user technical support. In short, a cleverly optimized website with clear text, heart melting design and easy navigation will almost always pay back rich dividends in the form of word-of-mouth advertising.
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