10 Things Every Business Web site Should Have

Written by Abdillahi Abdillahi


Business web sites are not just like any other sites. Companies make them to reach a lot of prospective customers aroundrepparttar world.Some times people forgot a lot of good things their business web sites should have. Today in this short article I list and explain ten things every business Web site should have. There might be more than these ten things but I find them to berepparttar 132217 most important ones for every business Web site to have.All right folks, I guess that is enough talk so lets get down intorepparttar 132218 topic ....shall we? OK then here they come

1 Detailed About Us Page.

You might say there is nothing about us but this page is very important.You should have it on your business web site and write detailed information in it. You should write about your company background, when you started it, who started it , contact information atrepparttar 132219 end ofrepparttar 132220 page and if possiblerepparttar 132221 pictures and names of your company workers/managers etc.

People want to learn more about your company before they can do business with you .Sometimes when I visit a site selling something onlinerepparttar 132222 first thing I do when it loads is to search forrepparttar 132223 About Us page and if I find a link I click on it to I can learn more aboutrepparttar 132224 company sellingrepparttar 132225 products I'm interested in but I don't find a About Us page or find it no having a lot of information then what I do is just closerepparttar 132226 site and leave .

By having this page on your business web site you avoid a lot of emails and questions to be sent to your email because potential customers will findrepparttar 132227 answers to their questions on it instead of sending an email to you and asking those questions inrepparttar 132228 same time waiting a reply from you so if you don't have one on your business web site then it isrepparttar 132229 time to make one :) .

2 Detailed Contact Us Page.

This is another important page. In this page you should provide allrepparttar 132230 ways your current and potential customers can contact your company, don't leave anything. Customers and potential customers want to be able to contact your company by email, mail, telephone and fax etc. There are some people who would rather phone you than to send an email to you because they just want to get quick answers instead of waiting them from you . For that reason make sure you have a detailed contact us page on your business web site.

3 A News Page.

People want to knowrepparttar 132231 news about your company so you should have a news page containingrepparttar 132232 news when your company started and its latest news.Try to organize it by year and month so it can be found and navigated easily .

4 Page Titles.

This is also important . Yo should have have detailed and descriptive page titles on your business web site . I visited many web sites which most of their page's titles had Untitled Document and NewPage1. As you can see it is not professional to have such titles on a business web site

Great page titles help your site and your business inrepparttar 132233 search engines as some SEO(Search Engine Optimization) experts said a catchy title is better than a one that isn't so a good way to make a good title is like this companyname.com-page name e.g. Kooshin.com - About Us or About Kooshin.com etc. These are just simple examples and I'm sure there are many other ways that you can make a catchy page title.

I use this for my site and sites of my web design clients .Just open any search engine web site and type something to seerepparttar 132234 search results .....I'm sure you seerepparttar 132235 keyword you searched beingrepparttar 132236 title of every page that is inrepparttar 132237 search results.So give a lot of attention to your business web site's page titles.

5 Page Names.

The page names are also important asrepparttar 132238 page titles. They should be descriptive for example you can namerepparttar 132239 about us page as aboutus.htm or combinerepparttar 132240 company name andrepparttar 132241 page name like this aboutcompanyname.htm so it takes its part inrepparttar 132242 search engine optimization .For that reason you should give page names and page titles a lot of attention because they simply work together and are good for your web site.

6 Web Site Language.

Business web sites should have clear language no matter what language you use for your site it should be plain , very easy to understand and if you use abbreviations then make sure to explain and write what they stand for .I have seen business web sites using slang throughoutrepparttar 132243 site.

If Content is King who is Queen?

Written by Trevor Lewis


It's been said again and again, when it comes to getting people to visit your site (and stay there for more than 5 seconds),repparttar quality of your content rules supreme. But once you've bowed to interest, saluted relevance and kow-towed to originality, who else must you pay homage to for recognition inrepparttar 132215 court of website stickiness?

The two jewels inrepparttar 132216 crown of Presentation, for it is of course Presentation who is Queen, are structure and graphical design. Let's take a very brief look at them both.

Structure We're interested here in how you orderrepparttar 132217 contents of your site, in how you linkrepparttar 132218 different components and sections together. Your objective is to makerepparttar 132219 experience of browsing your site as straightforward as possible for your visitors.

So how do you go about achieving a clear, intuitive structure? For larger more complicated sites it helps to draw a chart of allrepparttar 132220 pages, showing how they connect to each other (this process isn't such a bad idea for smaller sites either). Try and keep everything logical and stick torepparttar 132221 '3 click rule' as much as possible. (The '3 click rule' - a user shouldn't have to click more than 3 times to get to a page).

Once you've worked out a logical site structure,repparttar 132222 basis for your navigation system should pop out. Don't go and spoil it all by using a fancy (usually Flash) navigation system that's frustratingly difficult to work out!

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