Web design will usually be the very first stage of creating a web presence for your business.
Visual Appeal and Structure
The most important goal to achieve at this stage is to create a design that is visually appealing. According to various studies, it takes less than 1 second for someone to decide whether or not they like the look of your website. If they don’t like the look of your website, it is easy to see that it will be harder to convince them to like your products or services.
- A successful web design needs to meet all of the following criteria for your company:
- Clearly shows what products/services you have to offer.
- If you offer a large number of products/services, the most important products should be among the most prominently displayed.
- The website navigation elements must be very intuitive and visible.
- Points of contact need to be clearly visible and shown in certain areas of the screen where the vast majority of users expect to se them.
- Websites should be cleany presented and not cluttered with unimportant or marginal information.
- The written content of your website should be interesting and inviting to read.
Many websites fail to fulful some or all of the above criteria. If your existing website falls into this category, this is something we can address quickly.
During the design (or re-design) process for your website, we can discuss your requirements and the look and feel you’d like your new website to have.
From this meeting, I will produce alternative designs to present to you and we can then proceed with your preferred design.
Updating Your Website Yourself
For many of my clients, a primary requirement is for them to be able to make updates to their website themselves and furthermore, to be able to make those updates within seconds or minutes.
During the design phase, we can determine which areas of the website you might want to update/manage yourself and build a system that allows you to log in and make those changes directly on the website itself. Instantaneous and very easy!
If you consider a typical chalet business website, areas you might want to update yourselves could be among:
- Special Offers
- Prices
- Forthcoming local events
