Sunday, October 2, 2011

Learn About The Top Web Design Basics

By Reed Slidell


When you have your own business to run and manage one of the best things that you can do for it today is to make sure that you have an online presence. What this simply means is you need to have a website where people can easily look at and find out everything they need to know about your company, particularly with the products and services you are offering. It does not have to be expensive as there are number of affordable web design you can find. But for this to happen, you need to understand the web design basics, first and foremost.

While there maybe a hundred and one reasons why you need a website for your business, there are a few top of the mind worth mentioning. Foremost of which is that you will have a central location where your customers can easily and quickly reach out to you, to give you their thoughts and opinion about your business. A good way to do this is by putting up a blog on your website. Another is that you can conveniently update people about the latest happening in your company.

To help find out what are the things you need from your website, here are some of the top web design basics.

The first step is for you to fully understand what is the main purpose of your company's website. There are many types of websites and each with its own purpose. You need to determine what are the things you would want your website to achieve and from that you can then plan how it would look like and also what information you will be putting up there.

Are you planning to put a lot of images on your website? Then I highly suggest that you limit the file size of your images otherwise it will have a considerable effect on your site's bandwidth. Bandwidth determines the speed and the number of files your site visitors can get from your website and this important for them to smoothly view it. With smaller file sizes it will be a lot less of a load on your bandwidth.

You must ensure that your website design Adelaide has an easy to find and understand navigation. By navigation it means your site visitors can easily find their way around your website and view the web pages they are interested to see. Often placing a navigation bar on the upper part of your site is the best approach to it.

Put a way for people to reach you. Often a contact page with a contact form will do. But if you are a business then you need something more than that. You should put your contact details like phone number, address, and email there. Give your customers more than one way to get in touch with you.

So there you have it. These are just a few of the web design basics every business owner or manager like you should know. While I believe that there are no perfect web design Adelaide out there, you just need to have a website that your customers can have an easy access to so that they would have a better understanding of your company and of course of your products and services.




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