The Basics
Placed in Website Guide | September 2nd, 2008
You have a flourishing business? everything is in its place. Miss you just one piece of marketing important presence of a website. Like everything in business, getting a website planning needs. Getting actual site needs more planning.
Here are some basic things and plan to know:
The World Wide Web
What is the www or the Internet? Basically a network of websites from all over the world, you can access via your computer for which you need an Internet connection and a browser. Internet connections are available Internet service providers, and most of the popular browsers are free downloads from the Internet. Just like writing / typing an address on an envelope mail, website, you type the address in the browser beginning with http://www. and ending with either. com,. net,. org,. biz,. nz,. uk, etc. So if you want to access the Microsoft website, you would type http://www.microsoft.com and Browser hey, presto! You get all the information about Microsoft and its products on your browser. Just click on the links available and you are on your way.
Your site
Your website will be a bunch of all pages linked together via hypertext links. Ofcourse you can have a one-page website or as many pages as you like – depending on the amount of information you want to share with your visitors. Hyperlinks are text or images pointing to another page, just like the heading of this article points to my website.
Your Hearing
As the Web has grown, it has the type of people who access it and how they access. As we say, it is impossible to please everybody. It is very difficult to design a website which will be accessible to all Carefully choose your content and design, keeping in mind who your target audience is and what type of equipment they use. Here means the equipment and other computer hardware and software includes the used for connecting to the internet and browsing it.
The best way to reach more people is to use pure HTML, and keep the use of languages like JavaScript, Java and other plug-ins to the minimum. While this may not make seeing your site, or art style, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that your site is accessible to most of the people. Afterall, that is the whole point of this exercise, right?
Designing your web site means the audience and their knowledge requirements.
Content
Now that introductions are over, lets get down to the core of your web site: Content. The most important aspect of any website, the content is one thing that will keep your visitors at your site and keep bringing them back. The content should depend on what you want to let your visitors know – about the company, the products, services. Keep the interesting content, updating it often for repeat visitors. Often this can mean providing more details on the various aspects of your business, as the price of season, etc. Your visitors will visit your site again and again if the content is relevant, and there is something new each time they visit .
Layout
A well laid out website will be a successful one. Whether you design the site yourself, or outsource the task to a webdesigner like us, first layout your ideas on paper. Choose text color and graphics carefully, they all contribute to the page load time. Starting with your Home Page, keep it fast-loading, with a good navigation structure. Try to follow the same layout for the whole site. Change only the layout for the various sections and not different pages. If the navigation bar at the top is on your homepage, keep it at the top in all the other main pages. Consistency in layout is very, very important.
These are just some of the basics about building a website. There are many more, some requiring an article all about themselves. Keep visiting, as I plan to write about as many as I can.
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