Website Design Services
A business with a good website design is taking business away from their competitors. Think about it! How many sites have you visited as a customer? What were you looking for? If you have been using the Internet regularly, you know what you like and don’t like. How does your website design stack up?
A tougher part is determining if your website design has the highest standards built into it and if you are beating your competitors each day on Search Engine rankings, such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.
What should I look for in a good website design?
There are many elements in a website design that affect a web surfer’s opinion of your website. Overall, though, here are some basics that are necessary for a good website design:
• Easy Navigation
• Having Quality Web Content/Text
• Quality Pictures
• Professional Graphic Design
• Easy to Find Contact Information
• The Behind-the-Scenes Web Code that is Easy for Search Engines to Crawl
• Knowing the Goal of your Website
• And more……
What are your goals when designing a website?
Every business wants a quality website design for their company but does not always have a clear goal in what they want to accomplish with their web site. The first step in designing a new website is to determine your goals. Also put a timeline on those goals. You should also consider what realistic goals are. If you currently receive little or no activity from your existing website you shouldn’t expect that a new website design will double your sales in one year.
How long will a website design last before I have to create a new web design?
Most industry experts put that number at 3 – 5 years. In this economy more than likely you will be basing that time of website replacement on your budget. The question you should ask yourself is “How does my website design compare to my main 3 competitors?” If your website design is not as good, you need to make changes to your design no matter how old your site is!
“IS MY SITE BETTER THAN MY MAIN 3 COMPETTORS?”
Custom Website Development
We develop custom website designs for our customers. Here are two huge advantages to this method of building websites:
• Your site is custom designed for you. There are no copies of your design sold.
• We also code all of your web pages using a tech savvy coder. What does that mean? Better Search Engine results as the information search engines use is more efficiently programmed into your website pages. Industry standard compliance is very important.
CMS Website Design
If you are going to be updating your website frequently and have co-workers that want to update their specific pages regularly, you may benefit from a Content Management System to handle all your website updates. It will add up-front programming costs to your website development but may be worth the investment over a longer period of time. Contact our office for more details.
Do I Go with a Custom Web Design or a Template Design?
It really depends on your budget. A template designed site is a pre-designed site where someone may change colors, pictures, pop your logo in, etc. If that web design company sold you a template site they will probably not tell you they are selling you a template website. They do not want you to know they just sold you a template website. Do all template sites have the best design/code? NOPE. Do they all list high on search engines? NOPE. Are there other issues with a Template designed site? YEP. Do you still want a template designed site? If you only have a $ 1,000 or $2,000 for your company’s website image, then you may be forced to start with a template web page design for a short-term solution. There are also Web-Based Website Design programs out there that allow you to buy web hosting and they give you a free website design program. These kinds of websites usually do really poorly on search engine placement. Web design is one of those situations where “You get what you pay for.” Custom website development is worth the investment in your business. Contact us today to get started.
