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A well structured and carefully designed website is an asset for any business. Web designing is crucial in building a website that will attract a large number of visitors. If the web design does not meet the specifications of the owner, it could turn out to be more of a liability than an asset. A good web designer must be able to provide informative content, attractive web colors, and easy navigation. A good web design should be able to attract many visitors to the site and must rank high in search engine results.

You must consider certain aspects when designing a good website. Focus on the targeted audience and measure web quality from their point of view. The web content must be easy to understand. The way your website looks is very important, but it must also be functional and easy to navigate. Clear navigation is necessary for ease in searching for information required by visitors. A website should always be designed for SEO or search engine optimization from the very beginning. Using keywords and description meta tags will help improve your website’s ranking.

Always provide a feedback option for your visitors to leave their comments and how they rate your site. When designing the web site, put yourself in the shoes of the customers and targeted audience, rather than from the web site owner’s perspective. Use language for your content that will be understood by your customers and targeted audience. It should be rich in relevant information that is clear and easy to understand.

A good web site design focuses on a specific audience and not on many audiences. To focus on more than one target audience means focusing on nothing. Contents of the web are the most important elements. The website’s contents fulfill the primary objectives of any business. Good communication through the web promotes your business. If your web site has a good ranking in search engines, your business will have a better chance of reaching most of the customers. Web contents show your message to your customers and are useful for marketing purposes.

You must put great emphasis on web content management. Use graphics creatively and target your specific customers. Remember that your website is your business’ show window to the world. For most companies, their website is their business. You can process transactions and take orders through the web. You can also develop new relations with your customers with a single click of the mouse.

By: J Klein

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WordPress continually gains in popularity. Already popular in the blogging world, CMS themes and features mean that even static business sites are making the switch to WordPress. When people make this switch though – who guides them? if you have never used WordPress before are you able to jump right in?

I have talked about the advantages of WordPress – by now everyone should know that Google loves it and updating a page is as simple as using your web browser. How many people really know how to use it to it’s full potential? You may not need to know advanced coding, but surely some basic knowledge can ease your transition.

I remember a colleague and I discussed the switch to WordPress ages ago. We had heard it was the next big thing in web design and we needed an updated look anyways. We dived in and were met with a problem.

WordPress was unlike anything we had used before. For all the people talking about how simple it was – with no background knowledge into WordPress it is a bit overwhelming at first. We were arguing about the difference between pages and posts for 20 minutes! Don’t get me started on the “WordPress Loop”!

The WordPress support forums are great and they helped – but a lot of the info there was over our heads at first. We almost gave up hope and thought of going back to HTML…when we got lucky. A new friend we met had been using WordPress for ages, “before it was cool” as he put it. He invited us to his office and walked us through it.

Well that was all it took. We have been hooked ever since! Just having that person to break down the back office of WordPress was so helpful. It literally saved us dozens of man hours. It also saved us countless mistakes and redos.

Even after that initial meeting we had him on our instant messenger and it was so helpful to have somewhere to ask our questions. No long fruitless Google searches for every problem. A question was asked and it was quickly answered!

Anyone who is completely new to WordPress should definitely try to find someone to help guide them. Hopefully you have a friend that can do this, but even if you have to pay, it will be worth it in time saved and mistakes made.

By: T. Payne

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