Saturday, October 10, 2009

Reasons To Have A High Quality Website For A Business

By Jamie Prescokt

Why is it important to make sure that you have a high quality website? The biggest thing these days is the fact that the internet isn't quite the same as it used to be. Do you remember the days when you could have a quite page with black text and slap a few pictures on it? Do you remember how that wowed people into buying a product? Well unfortunately those were the days before web page builders were released and you could just conjure up a site using notepad. Now that so many people understand the concepts behind web page design you have to do quite a bit to surprise anyone, let alone get them to purchase your product!

Now that the glory days are behind us it's probably a good idea to look into better ways of designing a web page. What you want to do is make your page easy to use, but not make it so complicated that people are too distracted by the bells and whistles to actually look at your product. Return customers don't count if they only come back to play the duck hunt game at the top of your page!

What's very important is that you do not use plain HTML to design your page. While it's simple and easy to use, customers may not be impressed by it. It shows that not much effort was put into the website and they'll likely go to your competitor who happens to have pop out menus on their main page. Pop out menus are very important because people want to see what their options are before they actually click a link. This is primarily so that they can see where they're going beforehand.

You want to be sure to hold peoples interest in the web page so even though you want pop ups etc. you don't want to overwhelm them by making it too busy. Another recommended feature that appeals to people in case of a problem is contact information and technical support and you could even create an FAQ that will answer often asked questions.

Although you may have the know-how necessary to create web pages if you are occupied running a business it might be worth your while to hire a professional web page designer. You will find it was worth the added expense hiring a professional for a web page worthy of your company.

Your goal is to attract more customers to your business and having a web page that was properly designed and works right should do just that. In the end that will be more money for you to pocket. It is amazing, but a good web page can actually help your business to succeed.

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