●      Remember to Design/Layout for Accessibility

Your design or layout should be designed ultimately for your users.  This simply means that your ultimate focus will be for your users.  Put yourself on your users’ or your audience’s shoes so you will be able to design and organize your website in such a compelling way that it leaves a really good impression to your audience.

If possible, design apps that can be used in mobile browsers and other e-readers so you will be able to cater audiences from all walks of life. Test your website in many browsers and see how it looks like.

●      Remember to Design with New Enhancements

Do not be boring and do not make your audience bored with the way your website looks. Always keep your design up to date and add up rich content as you spice up your navigation bars.   

Make a Plan

Now you have your domain name and web hosting service purchased, creating your website design should be easy. Make a plan for you to be able to jump start right and organized. Given below is a checklist for you to start:

·         Put in paper all your ideas about how you are going to promote your site’s products and services and how you would want them to know all about your company.

·         The best place to go for you to get good ideas is your competitor’s website. Write down in paper what you want best about their website and what you don’t like about it.

·         To make a good impression to your visitors, arrange your website according to the parts that need focus and more visibility.

·         There are many ways to earn in creating a website. If you do not have products and services to offer, you might as well promote others by joining different affiliate sites. On the other hand, avoid joining each and every program so your site would not look like a newspaper’s classified ads section.

·         Make use of a site map. Site maps will provide both the search engine and your users the ability to navigate through your site smoothly. For you to be able to start mapping, you can map out your web pages from the main page down to the other pages of your site. Keeping a sitemap will help you get more organized.

Your web design is a very significant part of your entire site, probably the most significant. When your audience gets into your site and finds it not user-friendly, they will not think twice about exiting your page which makes you lose chance of increasing your sales. Listed are some do’s and don’ts to help you organize your web layout.

Don’ts

-          Dark colors and very bright colors is a major turn-off because it is very distracting.

-          Images made as a background makes a website load too slow.

-          Don’t make your page very wide because people doesn’t have the time to scroll sideways in order to read your content.

-          Avoid using blinking and moving graphics.

-          Make your navigation menu as few as you can.

Always remember that most of your visitors were able to find you via search engines and it is therefore required that your content should first be search engine friendly (to get more visitors) and customer-friendly so your visitors will keep visiting, most of all, purchase your products and services offered. 

Website content refers to all texts and images that can be found in your website.   As you create your own website, all its content should be developed simultaneously as well so you will be able to integrate all the necessary information needed for your visitors’ use.  Below are other things to consider in writing your website’s content.

●      Emphasize the important keywords to highlight your products and services to encourage them to purchase.

●      Use engaging images that have alt+texts or alternative texts so that they can be crawled by the search engines and as well as provide visual effects and information to your audience.

●      Although a Flash-built website looks interesting, most of your visitors hit the close button even before loading the website completely.  Flash-built websites are not indexed by search engines as well.

●      Using iFrames is not advisable as well.  Just like a flash-built design, it is not usually crawled by most of the search engines. 

●      Using music and videos to add to your content is alright, for as long as it does not automatically play once a user opens your website.  Your audience (and maybe potential customers or clients) might not find it overwhelming that they instantaneously get away from your website. If you want to include music and videos, give them the freedom to decide to either listen or view any of it.

●      Provide a compelling content that captures the eye of your readers, something more informative and credible.  Be sure not to duplicate content from other sources.

●      Review your own content and always consider revision when necessary.

 

WebStudio Website Builder is a drop and drag program that will be able to help you create your own website from scratch.  It is so simple to use that will be able to help you create a website the quickest way possible, and of course, with class.

Now, all you need to do is to sign up for a trial account to get you started. Templates are much available that will make you create and design your own website in just a short time.

Here are the following features of this website builder:

1. A wide-array of web templates and layouts to begin with.
2. Each web template can be customized according to the color scheme of your choice.
3. Pre-made logos you can use right away.
4. Many font styles are available.
5. It’s a drag and drop program which does not need anything but a browser.
6. A full-time online support to process your requests and tickets right away.

Look forward to reading more tips on how to create your own website and learn principles to good web designing.

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Before buying a webhosting package, it is good that you should be able to decide on how much disk space, bandwidth, and other things included in a package that you need. A good web hosting package is supposed to meet your own needs so it will be able to come up with the results you expect. Put up a social media site with only a couple of gigabytes to store your database—it won’t be enough. Otherwise, come up with just a blog and even a basic website to use that size of disk space. Basic packages to some companies start at $19.95 per month.


An online support is one of the things you need to consider when purchasing a web hosting package. If you lose a few hours due to downtime, you might be shooing your clients away.

1. Domain name

Your future clients will use your domain name in order to locate you on the web.  A domain name can be your web-based business address or just a combination of alpha-numeric characters submitted after the most popular www. Sometimes, selecting the best domain name for your online store can at times be difficult. To be able to help you on that, here is a list of things to take note of:

1.a Keep it Short

One-word and popular domain names are most likely bought by others, some have been reserved for future use or selling. So if you have the money to purchase the name from them, you can always do so.  Otherwise, there’s a solution to that—you can select a word or two or something you use in your company like what University of Phoenix did which is http://www.univphoenix.com. 

You can also go for a descriptive domain name to use in your website.  It is to obviously tell everyone about what your business offers, but this doesn’t mean you SHOULD use your company name or even the name of your product.  Using appropriate and short words in your domain name is a thumbs-up.  The group you’re working for provides online business products, for instance.  A domain name like getaname.com or internetid4u.com might be a good idea.

1.b Keep it Simple

When you want to make an impact to your site visitors, always remember to keep your site simple.  Huge websites like Yahoo! and Google, although these are search engines with a lot of functions at hand, were able to make their domain names simple, yet appealing.  Yes, you have been advised to work out the combination of words and maybe characters but please don’t make something like this – 0my60sh.net. Keep it straight and simple.

1.c Keep it Sensible

Choose a domain name that provides the most relevant information or description of your products and services.  Below are the list of extensions that might help you in properly categorizing your website.

• .com or .net – This extension is best for websites that offer commercial products and services.
• .org – This extension is usually used by organizations to properly label themselves as organizations and not commercial websites.
• .info – This domain name extension is usually used for products and services information. Some movies use this extension to provide movie trailers.
• .mobi – This domain name extension is mostly used to provide a redirection of the main .com, .net, etc of a site to their mobile internet-friendly sites.

Domain name registrars will surely provide you with their services according to your liking. Domain name prices vary but usually they start at an annual rate of $10.99 for a regular commercial domain name.

Private Domain Registration – Protect Your Privacy

Availing a private domain registration package will be able to help you reduce spam and prevent your contact details from a domain registry from being stolen. By availing such does not mean it’s free, but sometimes it’s all worth the added monies.

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