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Common Sense Website Design - Article 1
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Roy Cook
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Website Design,
Some Common Sense Methods
By Roy Cook
(c) 2000, Celestial Visions Co.
Hello, and welcome to another article about
marketing on the internet. In this article I will
give you an idea of how a good website is built,
and the tools that are really needed to get the
job done.
It seems that a lot of people that start a website
on the internet have no idea what they are doing, or
how to do it! That's a shame!
Designing a website isn't a simple process, but it
isn't that difficult either. It's an organized
process that starts with an idea of what you want
to tell your prospects about in your web pages.
An excellent method of designing a website is based
on what you want to tell your prospects, one step
at a time. Keep it simple, and easy to read. Use
Black Text on a White Background with a minimum of
graphics on the main page. You don't want any
animations or music content in the pages unless
you know it will help to sell your product!
Your Index.html page is your Advertisement for your
website, and should be easy to read, and with as few
links as possible going out from it. This page is your
Front Door, and it must have content on it that will
Grab your visitor's attention, and hold their interest
long enough to get them interested in the rest of your
website. It's like a Million Dollar Salesletter with
a few links to other parts of the salesletter.
In the Index.html page there should be an attention
grabbing headline about a benefit for the prospect.
Your visitor is looking for what you have to sell,
or they wouldn't be there so grab their attention,
and give them a Major benefit for Reading what you
have to offer. The prospect has some problem that
they are looking for the solution to. Provide Benefits
for them that will help them to solve their problem.
In the body of the page have more benefits that will
help the prospect solve their problems as easily as
possible. Make your text as easy for the prospect to
understand as possible, and write about your Prospect.
If you sell more than one product, or service and
the products or services need a good description
of each, then build a web page for each product and
pack each web page with as much information about
how your product works, or how your service can benefit
them. The more information about your products, or
services, the better!
Using this method of packing each page with Beneficial
information about your products, or services will
accomplish two things at the same time:
First is it will provide your customer with the
information they are looking for that could make
the difference between them clicking the Back button,
and buying your products, or services!
Second is it gives you a much better chance of getting
a good position in the search engines, and getting
your website more exposure, and more hits.
I have looked at the background of many of the top
ranking pages in the search engines, and have found
that most often the pages have very little if any
meta tags in them! They aren't using the keywords,
or description meta tags, and yet they have the top
positions - without having to Pay for them! These
pages have benefit packed text about their products
that gets them the top position.
More on Meta Tags, and Keywords in another article.
The main thing about a website is that it is like a
salesman, only it never sleeps, eats, takes a break,
or asks for a raise! It's up 24 hours a day, 365
days a year, or as long as your server keeps running!
That brings up another requirement for your website,
reliability of the server.
I have had to switch server companies a few times
because of reliability problems either with the
server hardware, or software, and it looks like I'll
have to switch again real soon because of reliability
problems. If you are looking for a good webspace
provider check them out thoroughly before setting up,
or transferring a domain to them. Make sure that the
server company provides customer recommendations that
you can verify by contacting their customers!
It doesn't do any good to have a fantastic website if
your virtual server is down most of the time! I have
gone through that and it isn't fun when you type in
your website URL and find out that your server is down
During Peak Hours! That is the time you need the server
to be up the most, and is when the money is made.
Enough for now, and have a great day!
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