Monday, May 25, 2009

5 Questions to Ask Your Web Designer (By Natalie Aranda )

Today almost all businesses have a website and more and more are getting websites each and every day. However, there are many questions you should ask a web designer before allowing them to build you a website. Not asking these questions could result in problems and if you are paying to have a website designed the last thing you want is for your site not to be the very best it can be. So, ask the following five questions to your web designer to make sure that the website you receive is the best for you overall.

Accessible Platforms

Ask your Boston website design team what platforms your website will be accessible on. Believe it or not that your site may be designed one way and not accessible on all platforms. Consider the individuals using handheld devices to access the web and whether or not you want your site designed for these individuals to access as well.

Legal Action

Ask your Boston web design company if anything on your site could result in legal action. The last thing you want is a lawsuit or some other legal problem over your web design so find out in advance if this could be a problem.

Bandwidth

Using design methods like CSS or XHTML means you will save a lot of bandwidth; your site will download several times faster not to mention that you will save lots of money. So, make sure you ask your web designer what type of bandwidth will be used by your site and if CSS or XHTML are options. Your Boston web design company should be able to handle any of these and will let you know what will be best.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization is incredibly important and you will want to know what Boston SEO methods are available for your site. Basically, SEO means that your website content will be written in a manner that will help it rank higher in the search engines and get more hits. Find out from your web designer if the content is written by an SEO expert or not.

Upgrades

You will also want to find out if it will be easy to upgrade your site or not. The easier your site is to upgrade the better off you will be. So, consider paying a little more up front and having an easily upgradeable site that will save you money and time in the long haul.

Natalie Aranda is a freelance writer. Ask your Boston website design team what platforms your website will be accessible on. Believe it or not that your site may be designed one way and not accessible on all platforms. Ask your Boston web design company if anything on your site could result in legal action.

Japan Web Design and Development (By Tom Crue)

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As the attention span of a web surfer is just a few seconds, the design aspect of your website is very important. If your website is cluttered with pictures and text, difficult to navigate, or the pages too time-consuming to download, visitors may just drift to another more user-friendly site. Variables such as graphics, layout, text fonts, load time, and ease of navigation can all influence visitors to your site.

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Website Template or Web Designer? (By Harry Alfred Spirali)

So you need a business website? - It costs money right? And it's hard to find a local reliable web designer who can work within your budget? So you gonna do yourself (or get nephew Jimmy to do it for peanuts, afterall he is a computer whizkid at only 13 years old) ? Maybe you've seen those cool flash web templates with music for a few dollars - that will do nicely !

But what about registering the right domain name; setting up email accounts for all the staff; getting the right type of web space to host the site; how you gonna add a web form; have you got any decent web design software installed ? - Oops! that willl cost mega bucks! Erm so maybe web templates aint so cheap after all ? And you'll need to find a few hours/days to do this - maybe you'd be better selling your product/service ?

But Web Templates are so cheap !

Well, a good web designer is undoubtedly worth the money if you have the budget. He/She will build you a customised web site with your business logo, snazzy imagery in your brand colours, nicely laid-out text and menus. They may add a little Flash animation to create impact and a online form that helps your prospective customers contact you from the website. SOUNDS GREAT ! But your website needs to do a lot more that look pretty.

The more professional and experienced web designer will go a few steps further, beyond the bells and whistles. He/She will make sure the code is validated to W3C standards, it is accessible to the disadvantaged, it works in all modern browsers such as Internet Explorer, FireFox, Mozilla and Safari. They will ensure the content is optimised with keywords for Google and Yahoo, etc. They test all the links work. They'll submit the site to the search engines that matter. They will install a 'hit counter' so you can check how your site visits are coming on. And best of all they will give you honest and practical advice on all things web, stuff they have learned over the years. Because they're experts.

DIY web templates are just the begining and if looks got you to the top of Google then I'd say GO FOR A WEB SITE TEMPLATE. But the reality is the web is too big and competitive for you not to get the web designer in.

If you are serious about your website being a major part of your online marketing mix then my (maybe biased) opinion is get a web designer - it'll pay for itself. Yep, there are thousands of web templates very cheap but the Google and Yahoo top 10 don't seem to list them - enough said!

Try These, they may help:

* G-Force UK Web Templates example of web tempaltes
* Digital Idiom UK Web Design Customised / Bespokeweb sites
* W3C Web Standards World Wide Web Consortium
* Google Search Tips

So is it web template or web designer?

Harry Spirali is a web sales consultant for Digital Idiom UK Web Design - he helps advise on web development, design and search engine optimisation in the UK.

http://www.digitalidiom.co.uk