Points To Keep In Mind While Designing & Developing A Website

What is Web designing?

The term Web designing circumscribes around production and maintanance of a website. It covers different areas such as Interface design or often called as User Interface, the code which is to be included to create the interface and search engine optimisation to increase the accessibility or visibility of a website, worldwide. Now let us all keep few things in mind before actually designing and developing a website with a markup language.

1) Choosing the right domain name for your brand: It is very important to choose a correct domain name for your website that reflects your brand. Remember,the name should be spelled correctly because that increases the chance of your brand to be located on a search engine with the implementation of SEO into your website.

2) Choosing the right platform for hosting the website: Do a thorough research for all the hosting platforms that are available today. Look properly into the pricing and services they offer. Such web hosting providers also offer data storage such as SQL, MYSQL, MONGODB etc in the packages. Have a proper look into the details and find a hosting service which provides you with a most secured platform. Security plays a very crucial role in Web hosting.

3) Keep the interface simple and user friendly: It is very important for a website to look simple, clean yet very appealing. A website should clearly be talking about the company, the brand and the products. The most important of all is to avoid any broken link on the website. The website should be compatible with multiple browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer. With the increase in the statistics of number of users to surf through their cell phones it has become a necessity now that a website should be a mobile responsive website making it easy for the viewers to surf the website on their cell phones. Social media pages should also be integrated with a website as it enables the user to actually promote your brand through these social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.

4) Seach Engine Optimisation: This a straight way to drive traffic to your website. One should always write an SEO-friendly code to increase the chances of a website to be tracked by the search engine crawlers and display the website on the top of the list thus increasing return on investment.

5) Blog and Testimonials: Always have an active blog on the website to update the users about upcoming products and provide information to the users about the industry. Testimonials play a very important role for the users to understand what other people actually think about your company and product thus building in confidence into the mind of a customer.

Hope the above pointers helped you all in understanding few aspects of designing and development of a website. Thank you all for reading and signing off till next time!