Web design
Your content is crucial
What are you going to say and show people on your site?
People don't stay at even the most beautiful sites if the choice and organisation of its words and pictures aren't interesting or relevant, if it doesn't answer their questions.
We have to think about how your content will contribute to the outcomes you want from your site.
Things for you to think about
- What do you want a website for?
- Who do you want to look at your site?
- What things do you want them to do while they're there or straight after they leave? Learn something? Place an order? Call or email you?
- What words and pictures do you think will help achieve these goals?
- Is your writing concise and scannable?
- What Domain name do you want?
If you contact me I'll ask you about all those, as well as:
- What's your budget?
- What's your timeframe?
- Do you already have a business logo or colour scheme?
- What are some other sites you like?
- What are your competitors' sites?
- If you already have a site what do you like and dislike about it?
Things I think about
- Are the main tasks easy to accomplish? Are answers easy to find? Is it easy to use, intuitive, logical, unfrustrating?
- Does it look good?
- Does it load quickly?
- Will search engines rank it highly?
- Will it be accessible to most people? For example will people that use screen readers be able to navigate around the site?
next step
After we design your site we need to host it somewhere. Don't care about the details? Just contact me now. Or maybe you've decided you don't need a web site but you'd still like a better email address...
