A well-conceived website will be built with these four challenges seriously explored with the owner and developed using the builders' knowledge and experience of website issues. So, in general terms, what do we mean when we talk about a well-conceived website?
Graphical Design
Simply, less is more in our opinion. Everyone has their personal angle on what constitutes an attractive website graphically. The balance of word and image is important. Colour-scheme, text size and style reinforce appearance. Well-chosen images contribute much to the overall impact. The size and format of images and other visual media often dictate how fast the website will load. Slow loading hinders use.
Content
The website's words will reinforce the imagery and vice-versa. The words in header tags and associated images, along with keyword density and position, are important factors in influencing search engine rankings. Writing for the web is increasingly an important and complex issue. Web copywriting is often the poor cousin in website development.
Functionality
What built-in tools does you website need to ensure it works for both owner and users? Interactivity is an increasingly important feature of successful websites. We promote Value Webs CMS mainly for this reason. Using our CMS platform you have at your disposal a range of built-in tools that allows you to interact with your visitors and customers - see our CMS Features.
Usability
Finally, what do your website users experience when they arrive on your website? Will they stay a while because it grabs them with both the quality of information they are presented with and the interactivity that they can participate in? Or will they be gone in 10 seconds because the website developer/s got it wrong?
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