Planning To Create a Website? Here Are Things You Must Consider

Recently updated: January 4th, 2019

Digitization has a great impact on both our personal and business life. Where it helps individuals to make a more informed decision it gives businesses a way to effectively interact with customers and connect to more prospects across the world. And which is why businesses are increasingly investing in a website, mobile app, and other similar things that help them in many ways.  If you are looking to build a website, here are some crucial things that you must know about.

Web Development

Design

No matter what your business is about, you should choose a clean design for your website. A clean and aesthetic design always works- whether it be a lifestyle website, news website or e-commerce site. A quality web design is attractive and easy to navigate through. Note, a good design is the one that allows visitors to attract to the value of your brand and content instead of distracting heavy graphics. So it is of no sense to use too much graphics to give an appealing look to your website. Rather it acts as a distracting factor for visitors. So focus on choosing the right color scheme.

Color Scheme

Many a time color scheme is given a little attention when designing a website. It, actually, is one of the most crucial things you should consider and a vital element of a good website design. Different colors evoke different emotional responses such as calm, happiness, frustration and so on. When it comes to using colors in your website design, you should keep in mind your company’s niche, target audience, branding, and the elements of color theory.

Don’t be in hurry. Take your time and think about everything that can help you choose the right color scheme. Does the color you choose appeal to visitors to your website? Does it conform to your business goals? And the most importantly, does it complement the other elements on your website? These are what you think of when it comes to choosing a color scheme. A team of designers and developers with the right experience and deep understanding of the most crucial elements of a website can help you come out with a great idea for the color scheme.

Functionality

Why do you need a website for your business? What do you want your website do for you? The answer is you simply want to allow your audience to reach you easily. You want them to contact you. You want them to inquire about your business.

Well, you should consider all the functions you want your website to perform. Include those functions on your website. If you also want that your customers can buy online, add a buy button to your website.

Never forget to have a content management system that will help to effectively manage all activities over your website. For an e-commerce website, Magento is the right pick. Otherwise, go for WordPress that provides lots of possibilities for customization.

For a website to work properly and efficiently, it should have the right security features. Providing your website protection against malware attacks is vital. Having sufficient security features is crucial for ensuring every visitor a safe and smooth experience.

User-Friendly

The traffic you get to your website largely rests on the experience visitors have with the website. A poor experience not only affects traffic and eventually rankings but also allows users who may your prospective customers to make a negative perception about your business. So when designing a website, you should give due attention to the user-friendliness of your website.

A good website is easy to use. Users can navigate from one page to another without troubling to click back button again and again. For example, if a visitor is on the services page, he can go directly to the home page. So make sure to design your website in a way that allows users to go anywhere on the website and come back to the same place in no time.

Including a search bar makes your website more user-friendly. It allows visitors to get directly to where they want. It is an important feature of a website and you too should have it, particularly if you have an e-commerce website.

A good website is responsive. It loads fast and can be accessed from any devices. A responsive design is a trend today and every business from small to large is investing in responsive design.

SEO Friendly

Everyone is doing SEO and you, too, might be interested in it. Why not? After all, you want a great ROI. To use your website as a tool to market your products and services and generate valuable leads for your business, you should consider SEO parts when creating your website.

Implement a sitemap with your website. A sitemap helps search engines crawl and index your website. As someone searches a keyword related to your products or services, search engines go through indexed websites and search for information relevant to what has been searched.

Implementing sitemap coupled with good quality original content ups the odd of your website to be found.

Other things you should consider are tracking code and social implementation, blogs, and stock images. Social linking will help you host an advertising campaign to boost your brand visibility.  So make sure to implement all leading social platforms such as LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter, Facebook, etc,

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Amit Mishra

Amit Mishra, the co-founder of Media Search Group, loves to pen down about marketing and designing. Be it search engine optimization(SEO) tips and strategies, Social Media Optimization, Increasing Engagement, and Traffic Score, Web Design and Development, Mobile Applications, Conversion/Sales, he covers it all. Been in the business for a long time, Amit Mishra knows some of the best strategies on how to expand and grow a Business Online.

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