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Saturday, September 3, 2016

Without Professional Website Design On Line Success Is Highly Unlikely

By Timothy Stone


The internet has truly levelled the playing field, allowing businesses and entrepreneurs of all sizes and at all locations, from Baton Rouge LA to Peking in China to compete for the business of millions of internet users. Reliable and reputable services and products, outstanding customer service and a professional website is all that is required. When it comes to website design, anyone striving to be successful on the internet will use only the very best designers.

There was a time when a good looking user interface and some attractive graphics were enough to do well on line. Those days are long gone. Modern sites are extremely sophisticated and the interface that the user see is only the tip if the iceberg. Home made sites simply cannot hope to compete in the fiercely competitive on line environment. There are countless sites, all vying for attention.

Finding a truly professional site designer is not as easy as one may think. Countless people advertise their services as designers but the majority of them have no experience in on line marketing and they can at best create basic sites, even very attractive ones. A professional designer will be able to create a site that is designed to achieve very specific objectives. They will be able to demonstrate their skills and provide valid references.

Top site designers spend more time on planning the site than on crafting it. Their first priority will be to conduct a thorough interview with the client to get to grips with the aim of the intended site, the exact nature of the target market that it will cater for and all information regarding the products and services that will be on offer. He will then spend time studying the sites of direct competitors.

The designer will pay close attention to the user interface of the site. It must appeal to the intended target market. They layout must be user friendly and the content must be presented in a manner that makes it easy to absorb. The content of the site will be well organized and error free. Successful sites also allow their visitors to make enquiries or leave comments.

Even the most sophisticated sites will fail miserably if they do not feature prominently during user searches. Millions of users employ search engines to find whatever they are after and they are routinely presented with a results list containing thousands of sites. Only the first few sites on the list can hope to attract traffic. Successful sites therefore employ optimization strategies to make sure that they perform well during searches.

Site owners need to know how their sites perform. Professional designers will therefore make sure that the site will feature a management system that will gather statistics on the behaviour of visitors to the site. It is important to know from where visitors landed on the site, how long they spent on the site and a host of other factors. This information will allow the site owner to make sensible changes to the site.

The internet most certainly offer tremendous opportunities but anyone that wants to exploit those opportunities must be ready and willing to compete in a very tough environment. This can only be achieved with a highly professional on line presence. Paying a professional to create the site is an excellent investment, not a burdensome expense.




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