Sunday, October 4, 2009

Quality And Security Are Important Features Of A Website

By Jamie Prescokt

When it comes to your company you're going to find that your website is very important. Most importantly you need to make sure that the website is of high quality. This means keeping up with the competition and making sure that you have a similar easy to use layout on your site. Most cellular phone companies have done this actually, and you can see how similar and easy to use all webpages of this nature actually are.

If you would also like to have a website like that and your current site does not meet those standards, then just look at what the other businesses are doing in regards to their websites and follow their example. You will sometimes realize that your knowledge of web design is not enough to create such a site, but that can be solved by hiring a professional to create your website. This is more expensive than doing it yourself, but you have to weigh the benefits with the expenses and see which benefits you most.

Not just the design of the website is important. You also need to use the latest website developing tools and methods. A new version of CSS comes out every few months and those new versions and the changes should be incorporated into your website every time. This has to be done because a new code or software release means that the updates for older versions are stopped and that will leave your website lacking in security. Without updates, those gaps in security will also never have a patch to solve the problem. This attracts hackers who will then take advantage of your website.

Browser compatibility is also a big concern that you need to worry yourself with. It's not just Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer on the market anymore. Now you have Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and a ton of other different browsers that you need to worry about. They all interpret the website code differently, and you need to make sure that the code is adjusted for each of these browsers. If you do not, then your website will be a mess when it opens in one of the alternative browsers.

What about mobile browsers? More and more people today are connecting from hotspots using their cellular phones, iPods, and even portable gaming systems. You want your website to be viewable on these systems, so you'll want to configure them in such a way that they'll be viewable on lower resolutions, and invest in a .mobi domain so mobile users can be directed to the mobile website.

These are just a few suggestions to make your website as user friendly as possible. You need to experiment and simply play around and eventually find what you want for your website and for your business customers.

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