Design the Website With Customer in View

Businesses world wide have realized the importance of going
online and having a website. Websites play an important role
in marketing a company and its products and boosting e-Commerce.

Websites are designed keeping the customer in mind,since they
are the one who is going to buy the product.

The Don’ts for a visitor friendly website

1. Slow download 2. Confusing web site 3. Irrelevant matter.

These factors will affect the business,since the visitors
won’t wait for hour long for website to download.Visitors
don’t have the time to go through the hazy and confusing
navigation nor they would go through the content which is
of no use to them.

The first impression which you give is the last impression
for the visitors.

The Do’s for a visitor friendly website

Plan the site with the customer in mind: Imagine how your
customers (existing and prospects) will use your site.
Consider their reasons for visiting and their needs.

Have clear goals: What is the aim of your web site? What
products or services you wish to sell? Target audience?
The answers to all these will give you the clear-cut idea
of how to do about the website.

Design: Simple and easy are two main keywords to be kept
in mind while designing the website.Certain aspects in
designing the website to be kept in mind are do not
upload heavy graphics(large download time),use the look
that is pleasing to the eyes,layouts,colors,and graphics
which speaks the kind of company you are. Consistency in
design throughout the website is main.If you are having
the brand logo blend it with your design on your site and
will help in boosting the traffic to your site.

Easy Navigation: Navigation should be easily understood by
customer. The links should be self explanatory. The
navigational links should be thoroughly tested and regularly
updated.

Page size: Maintain the page size for the download to be faster.

Content: Content is king that should be kept in mind.It should
be relevant,should provide all the information.Good content also
increase your page rank. Sites containing good and relevant
content which is updated always get indexed by search engines.

Make the site more interactive in terms of visitor.Ask for
their comments as well as acknowledge the comments.Keep the
visitor updated with all the information about the site like
when it is getting updated etc.Reply to the customer queries.
Provide them with help page,terms and conditions,privacy
policies etc.

Article written by mark.

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Can i get my money back from the website designer?

I am starting a small company and i found a website designer to build a site for me so i could sell online. He said he was going to do it in 1 day but its been more than 2 wks now and the site he has made is not even close to being complete. I paid him $350, how can i get my money back? There was no legal contract….what can i say to scare him that he will be willing to give me my money back or at least some of it….

I’m sorry to say but there is no way you can get that money back, you can try to sue if you know his name and contact details but it was kind of your fault for not having a contract and then just giving a guy $350 before he did any work you got scammed.

How do I advertise my web design services?

I’m a new web designer and I just published a website about my services. How can I get traffic and find new clients? I thought about things like Craigslist and placing posters on bulletin boards. I target mostly individuals and smaller businesses since my websites are dynamic HTML.

Advertise locally, to local businesses – and do the first few sites for free. You can’t pay for the advertising that a few happy customers can buy. Then you can list their sites on your site as work you’ve done.

Craig’s List is one good place. Walking around is another way – call on local merchants who have no web presence. Make sure you know what the hosting and domain name will cost them. Have a few available domain names for them.

Check on the web for how you should word your contracts – if you don’t have a good contract you’ll be doing a lot of free work and have a lot of dissatisfied clients, or lose clients. Even for your free work – this is what you want, this is what I’ll give you and there won’t be any charge. Any additional work will be charged for at X rate. That kind of thing. (There are some sites that sell boilerplate you can use. They’re written by people who learned the hard way.)