7 things to know before you develop a website

You want to develop a website that will help your business get visibility, attract visitors and convert those visitors into customers. You need to design your website in such a manner that it reflects your business objective and gives customers precisely what they want. This means that you need to do some serious planning and homework before you really start your website. We look at some of the basic stuff that you need to know to ensure your website succeeds, in this article.

1. Purpose of your website

Remember you can’t change plea in the middle of an argument. You should have started out with a clear purpose in your mind and also the contours of how you are going to implement that. This is extremely important as many firms start out with some objective and end up doing something else altogether.

2. Domain and hosting

This is the first thing to do to get visibility. You need to choose a name that people can remember well and choose wisely and appropriately, as to whether you will use .com or .net or something else. As for hosting, choose a reliable looking at how much capacity you will need.

3. Technology

Discuss and finalise the technology that you want to use. This could depend on a number of factors and it finally boils down to what you want. The options are HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Jquery, Javascript etc.

4. Layout and colour

Colour affects the feel of your site. Neat layout is always preferred. Don’t forget about the footer too. A good website required equal focus on all aspects.

5. Content

Before the content, first create a sitemap and flowchart. As to the content, remember that your website needs to provide good and informative content to the users. Target certain keywords to rank high in search engines. The type of content like language, picture, video, etc has influence of how fast or how slow the website will load.

6. Ads and pop ups

Do not include too many advertisements in your website. If an advertisement is not necessary, just don’t put it there. As for pop ups, prevent them from appearing. It is the most annoying type of advertising because of slow loading and sometimes you can’t close it.

7. Cross browser capability

A good website has to be able to be viewed properly in all types of modern browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.