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Taking The Next Step - Your Website
What do you want your website to do?
- Is it to be just a means of contact?
- Do you wish to display your work or services and maybe even sell them online?
- How may pages do you think you will need?
- Have you seen a website design/layout that you like?
- Do you have enough computer skills to maintain the site yourself?
- Do you already have a suitable website address?
- What is your budget?
You will find it helpful to draw your website on paper. Start with your vision of the front or "Home" page, as most of the other pages will likely follow the same theme and layout. If you are stuck for ideas, browse the net and find some designs you like. Also create a flow chart showing how you want your pages etc. to link together.
Try to make as much information available within 3 clicks...if people can't find the information they want quickly they may not persist in looking! Another good pointer is that if people have to scroll down your site more than 3 or 4 times it can have the same effect and drive people to a competitor or similar site. Not the creative type? Don't panic, we can help you to produce a blueprint of how your want your site to function and how you want it to look.
Seriously consider what you aim to achieve with your site; remember that as silly as it sounds, for your site to succeed as a means of generating business, you will need to market it. As well as considering advertising in other media such as magazines, think about how important it is for people to find your site and business searching the web with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and the like. Only if your business is truly unique are you likely to reach the first page of Google without spending vast sums of money on search engine optimisation (SEO) and other means of promoting your site online - so be realistic based on your budget.
Once you have decided that you wish to take things further, give us a call or drop us an email. We can then discuss at length, with no obligation, the specific requirements of the site and any ideas we have that may help your site be even more functional, and we can take it from there!
