What makes a good website? - Design

There are three main elements that contribute to the success of any website:

• A professional design
• A site that's easy to navigate
• A site that is easy to find

Get any of these elements wrong and your company will pay the price in lost opportunities and lost business.

A good website must represent your company to the world. It will be your first point of contact for many new customers. You will never get a second chance to create a good first impression, so you'd better make it count. Good content will help, but good design and a site that's easy to navigate will be essential elements if your site is to succeed.

A good website need not cost a great deal of money, but a bad website could, and almost certainly will, cost you a lot in in lost sales. Many companies have "saved" money by taking short cuts or by selecting to take the DIY route. But is it really a good idea?

Yes. you could probably make your own site. Eventually you may come up with an effective and professional design, then you could refine the navigation so that people will stay on your site. You'll need to think about browser compatibility issues, ensure that you comply with the law on accessibility. And you'll need to build into the site the required elements that will help to make the site "Google friendly".

Once you done that and a few hundred other things, then you could start to learn the necessary programs to begin construction. Make sure the site is quick to download. Maybe you'll need a database back-end or a few php scripts for forms or other interactivity. A design program to make all the graphic elements for the site. Then a web construction program to put all the pages together.

Of course, once you have the site finished, you'll need to find a hosting service, so that you can publish the site to the world. And then you'll need to make it actually work with the hosting service's servers.

Or, you could just contact Nettix and see how we could build you a professional site for a very reasonable cost and have it up and working for your company in just a few weeks or months.