Best Practices of Well Designed Websites
The following steps tell you about best practices of well designed websites. Those steps give you a detailed idea of a Professional Designed website. They merely serve as guidance in your web development. You may want to follow them or not follow them. However, if you choose to stop only on the Search Engine Optimization list and ignore suggestions and tips given herein, you may risk your high rank positioning on Google and other major Search Engines. So, if you choose to follow the following steps, start here:
Planning Website Tips
- It is important that you establish the purpose of your website and identify the audience that will use it
- Remember that when designing websites you should design it for users, although you should incorporate search engine design as well
- There is no need to wait to do search engine optimization till after the website is complete.
- You should start it as early as possible Keep your content up to date and clear
- Your website should be at least 10 pages long.
- Here are some ideas for your pages in the website:
- Home Page
- Your main product,
- services, or content pages (main content)
- Frequently Asked Questions pages (allow visitors to submit questions and answer them)
- About Us page (Company Profile)
- Contact Us page (with email links, address, phone numbers and contact us form)
- Copyright,
- Disclaimers,
- Privacy Policy,
- Return Policy page
- Ordering page
- Sitemap page (includes easy navigation with links to each page on your site)
- Link to Us and Relevant Links page
- Testimonials page (visitors testimonies about your services or products)
- News page and News Feeds page
- Blog page<, Etc
- Try to avoid all information about your company or yourself on one page.
- If a page is too long or has too much to say break up that page into several smaller pages
- During your planning phase you should already know who is going to be your hosting provider.
- Choose a reliable hosting provider. I use one called Dot5Hosting for $3.95/month.
- It is the best (cheapest) deal available on the web, filled with a lot of good features such as unlimited domain hosting, unlimited web storage, and unlimited databases.
- Avoid free hosting providers, since search engines consider them as the source of all spamming
