How to Design a Good Web Site?

- Content - lots of quality content.
- Regular updates.
- Good, clean design and navigation.
- Try to make sure that all the pages on your site follow a template and that all of the navigational links are the same.
- Try to make sure you do not have any broken links on your site.
- Try to make sure your colour schemes are acceptable to all of your users, including those with impaired vision.
- Try to make your design as user friendly and appealing as possible.
- Try not to give your users a headache or eye strain when they visit your web site.
- Aim for a good combination of text and images, but make sure your page loads quickly. If you have a galleries page, try using thumbnail pictures.
- Easy to read?
- Link exchanges.
- Supplying good free content.
- Adding user forums.
- Pages must be download quickly.
- Have good, clear and simple site navigation.
- Create a newsletter for people to subscribe to for free telling them about the new content or features of your site.
- Be pro-active.
- Content should be not more than 2 mouse click from your home page.
- Site must be well thought out.
- Simple, usable web site that everyone can access.
- Try to make sure your visitors do not get lost in your website and that every page is as few mouse clicks away as possible.
- Make sure your visitors know which page they are correctly on.
- Site must be integrated and act as one unit.
- Use templates to keep good consistency of design over your site.
- Search Engine Marketing.
- Finding your niche market.
- Provide site tools, eg. search bar, blogs etc.
- Ensure there are no errors with your code.
- Don't use page re-directs.
- Use categories for your content subjects.
- How does your user benefit?
- Will your site work in all of the major web browsers?
- Will your site need 3rd party plugins? If so how easy and which are they to install?
- Does your site inspire customers to revisit your site and purchase from you?
- Does your site cater for visually impaired people?
- Can your web site be viewed on a mobile phone?
- Is your web site efficient?
- Will site use ALT tags?
- Will your web site use java script?
- Will your web site be using frames?
- make sure your site is hosted by a professional web hosting company
- Will your web site use XSLT?
- Will your web site use CSS?
- Will your web site use RSS?
- Will your web site use flash?
- Will you make your site available in different languages?
- Always test all of your pages before putting them on your site.
- Make sure your pages have no errors on them.
- Try to make sure that your site complies with w3c standards, bobby etc.
- Get other people to look over your site before you put it on the web.
- Always check for spelling mistakes.
- If you would like to know how you are doing, fill in our A.N.A Web Hosting's web site health check
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