As you know in the present era, every person manipulated with fingertips on the keyword while its smartphone keyword or laptop with Internet connection. The internet with new technology now taking the world in a forward direction. You can say internet taking overall control in his hand on major part work in everyone’s life.
You know very well in this present world of growing opportunities for online business, you can’t amazing progress of business without a website. If you want to grow your online business audience and business reputation then website is the only way by which you can represent your business in the front of the online world. Having a website is not enough for developing a good appearance in your market, Social Media Marketing must necessary. I have discussed the importance of social media marketing in my previous article if you still not checked that one, have a look on that.
In this article, we are going to discuss about website development for a business. So there are many factors you need to keep in your mind before start working on your website. Here are the top 10 points that you need to keep in your mind while you are designing a website.
Points Need To Keep In Mind While Designing a Website
Domain Name
Good domain names are harder to come by, thus they are of great value. Your domain also describes who you are and gives you the branding you want online.
Things to Keep In Mind While Choosing Domain Name
- Keep it short & simple
- Try to keep one keyword in a domain name to get found easily.
Things to Avoid while Choosing Domain Name
- Don’t select misspelled domain
- Don’t get hyphenated domain
- Avoid Numbers
Hosting:
Choose a reliable one and look at how much capacity you need.
Note – Make a Note while selecting reliable Web Hosting.
- The price of Web Hosting.
- Disk Space
- Website Requirement
- Customer Support
- Web hosting Control panel.
Purpose & Tech
It is most important to define a purpose of your website that why you are going to make a website. Are you designing it for the business purpose, or for providing information to your readers about your product or you are going to develop an e-commerce website? It will make you easy for the selection of your technology, in which you want to develop your website. You can use HTML5, any CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Magneto, Drupal or anyone else. If your purpose and plan will clear, it will help your Web designer to provide you best web design services on his best level.
Layout & Color
Like everyone says “First Impression is Last Impression” this factor also apply in Website. The layout of your website gives a first impression to your website. With the right color combination, you can create a superb frame with the help of graphic design. Website color must be like your business environment so choose the right color combination. The color effect the feel of your website and neat Layout is always preferred, but don’t forget to footer too. Don’t forget to make your website mobile friendly because Google only give the importance to mobile friendly or responsive websites
Attractive Design & Content
Your website has to provide a Good and informative content to the user. Target appropriate keywords in your content to rank high in a search engine. The types of content like language, Video, Picture etc. have an influence of how fast and slow that website will load. The Quality design represents your capability and professionalism. So, both have the equal importance.
Easy Navigation and Loading of Website
Navigation helps the user to navigate from one page to another page. Only a good navigation can provide the better user experience and if your website have not a good user experience, people will not come back to you. So it is necessary to make an easy navigation on your website. One of another factor which affect your website success is load-time so make sure loading time of your website is good. To increase your website’s loading time avoid to include unnecessary scripts, ads, heavy images, flashes etc.
Cross Browser & Unique: –
A Good website has to be viewed properly in all types of modern Browser like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. And as you know there are also have your competitor website about your niche so make sure your website stand out from others and keep your website regularly up to date to keep visitors coming back.
Typography and Social media: –
Choose your typography, a readable font is absolutely essential because you don’t want people to squint their eyes when reading your content. Social media marketing helps you to get success and make a positive appearance in your competitive market. You can say that social media is the great source to reach your potential audience and interact with them. To get the benefit of social media, you just need to utilize this source in a perfect way.
Provide Security: –
Security is must necessary especially when you are collecting the user information like bank account details, login details etc. Make sure you are using the best security system on your website while you are building a website. Even you need to make your domain name secure with the SSL certificate.
Footer: –
Footer may not be the important thing in a site, but with a well-designed footer can attract visitors.
Conclusion
These are a basic point to keep in mind while developing a website. While designing a website, the first and foremost thing to keep in mind is that the website should be pleasing to the readers and able to capture their attention. Here I am going to mention all point in short.
These are the main one-
- Keep layout simple and clean
- Use effective typography for improved readability
- Use customer-centric color theme
- Make navigation easy
- Reduce site loading time with proper design
- Add header and footer for quick links