What Makes a Great Website? 8 Things you Need to Know
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Technology is quickly becoming standard in everyone’s lives. Kids have iPads, and even our cars are equipped with Wi-Fi connections. Therefore, the internet is quickly becoming the next best place to ply your trade – it’s like having millions of people
passing by your storefront every day.
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Therefore, your storefront –your website of course! –needs to be appealing to make people want to visit it.
However, are you curious about what it takes?Let’s take a look at some of the things that go into
creating an amazing website!
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Sad to say, but the average consumer judges your website by what it’s called. Therefore, a great digital marketing agency will help you to choose the right domain name that brings across the point of your website simply.
YOUR WEBSITE IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE DOMAIN NAME AND WEB HOST.1
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The best websites out there have extensive backend software management systems and software.
YOU NEED AN AGENCY TO HANDLE TO THE BACKEND ASPECT OF IT.2
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The best websites out there have extensive backend software management systems and software.
DESIGN IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND A GREAT WEBSITE5
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Shifting from page to page within your website should be a seamless transition, the load time shouldn’t be long or buggy and your viewers should be able to navigate it easily.
HOW IT FEELS4
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Colors, colors, colors and more colors! Your color scheme is probably even more important than the content you choose to put on your website – even though that’s important too.
HOW IT LOOKS6
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Whatever your company stands for has to be communicated through your logo; this is an essential part of branding.
YOUR LOGO EMBODIES YOUR COMPANY AND WEBSITE7
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Did you know that the coding that goes in your website has to be suited for search engine optimization as well? (There’s even a guide to it!) Therefore your web developer needs to be versed in this sort of thing.
BOTH YOUR CODE AND CONTENT SHOULD BE SEO FRIENDLY8
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As mentioned in here, about 80% of adults using the internet have a smartphone, and spend on average two hours each day using it for web-surfing. That means that if your website isn’t mobile friendly, you could be losing a ton of potential customers.
YOUR WEBSITE HAS TO BE MOBILE FRIENDLY3
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People love variety and being able to choose. Therefore, you have to make your website adaptable to this basic human tendency.
YOUR WEBSITE SHOULD BE SUITABLE FOR DIFFERENT BROWSERS3
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You can’t have a website without social media buttons. It’s just incomplete. Therefore your website developers need to ensure that your website is equipped with all the social media necessities to enable your viewers to help spread the word about your content and website easily.
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE SHAREABLE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA3
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Truth be told, it’s hard to find website development agencies out there, who know
what they’re doing well enough to deliver quality website design and build, without
sacrificing some other key attributes.
Read the entire article HERE.