Building an Innovative and Effective Website, by making full use of available technologies, is crucial for
future success of your current or future online business. There are literally 1000's of great ideas out there, but finding right ones and applying them to your website, is where real trick lies.Applying best tips, tools and other design principles to your website, can bring you untold success on internet. At same time, using powerful and innovative ideas in design and development stages of your website, will level playing field for your business, and raise it's competitive edge on internet.
We have been doing web development for more than 7 years now, and during this time, many important design and development principles have come to light. Don't waste valuable time by making same mistakes many other web designers and webmasters do. The following 8 powerful website design principles will assist in helping you make right choices for your online business :
1. Do-it-yourself OR outsourcing ?
Before you start compiling your new website, you have to establish your skill level to tackle specific project. If you have sufficient html understanding, a good idea of graphics and colors, plus fair writing skills, you mostly can do website design yourself. If, however, you don't have a fair understanding of html, it would be advisable to outsource.
2. Dynamic vs. Static web pages
Do you want your site to be static, i.e.. no input from visitors, or dynamic, i.e.. fully interactive, with visitors being able to log on, take part in forums, post information, etc ? Many new and fantastic scripting languages are available to make your site more dynamic and bring it to life.
3. Web Site Title vs. Domain
Before registering a domain for your site, take some time to think of related words or names that best describes your business. Compile a few possibilities and then check for availability on internet. The best ones would normally already be "taken", but innovative thinking can get you very far !! When compiling you main page, use this domain name and extend it to your website's main page title tag. This is step 1 in getting future good search engine rankings.
4. Build your site around important keywords
When building content part of your site, remember to include a fair dose of important keywords and phrases that best describe your business. These keywords, words and phrases people use when searching for relevant information on internet, should also be extended to all important tags of every web page of your site. Be careful though not to overdo it, as search engines penalize "keyword stuffing". Also use full sentences and make them sound natural. The clever search engine algorithms have recently just become even more advanced, and can now track unnaturally sounding sentences !
