Web Site Designers
Why do you want to be on the internet ? |
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Answer:
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To bring in new customersEverything else about your web page should be there to serve |
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So what is important in a site design? |
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| Answers: |  Being
found by the search engines |
This can govern site design & layout |
| Speed
of loading |
Don't keep them waiting! | |
| Ease
of navigation |
Make it easy to find everything on the site | |
| Getting
the customer to email you |
An email reply form is ideal | |
| Fitting
your budget |
We design to suit your budget | |
Even if you do not own a computer we can give you a presence on the Internet with our email-to-fax service. Have a look at our pages advertising Aussie Businesses. An ad on this page will cost you just $90 to set up and $20 per year. This includes a personalised email reply form the results of which are faxed to you at a charge of $2 for each reply.
A typical page priced at $330 ($US160) includes page layout & design, scanning
of a couple of graphics, an email-reply form and registration with ten of the
major search engines. Click here to see a list of our
page designs and their cost to produce.
The number of people using the Web is growing at a mind-boggling pace, in practice this means that it will get slower and slower as more people join. It is vitally important that your page loads quickly. You have wasted your money if your potential customer, who has gone to the trouble of locating you, gets bored waiting for all the graphics to arrive. They will, and they do, click the STOP button if a page takes too long to arrive! Look at it this way: will you wait for ages on a phone for someone to answer? Or do you get bored, hang up and look elsewhere?
So your first page should arrive fast. If you want to show detail put it on another page and warn the customer that they may have to wait a little while, people will do that if they are given a choice. Avoid flashy introductory screens. All graphics need to be optimised for maximum speed.
It should be easy for visitors to your site to hop from one page to another. In particular it should be easy for them to find your contact numbers and your email reply form. All your navigation links should be repeated in text format (see below) for the benefit of the sight-impaired and those who have turned off graphics for faster surfing. Users of mobiles and palmtops, with low resolution screens, will increasingly be logging onto the net - they won't be able to see flashy graphics-based navigation menus.
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For some reason people love to fill-in forms! Especially if you make a free offer, special discount or prize available to those who respond. Forms help to ensure you get all the information you need, so you can respond effectively.
Its
no good setting up shop in a big skyscraper if the receptionist in the lobby doesn't
know you are there. That's what its like in the World Wide Web if you're not registered
with the major search engines. We make sure that people can find your page by
telling the WWW receptionists where to find you. Doing this job effectively requires
careful thought and planning. Most of the search engines (the places where people
go to look for products and WWW pages) expect you to have a list of keywords that
describe your page. We employ other techniques that maximise your chance of being
found. Each search engine analyses the page differently to decide where your page
should be listed.
You
can assist us by giving some thought to what words, others would use, if they
were looking for your page. Keep in mind that different countries use different
words. For example, Americans go on "vacations", whereas we go on "holidays"
(then e-mail any one of them to find out if they were delighted with our service)
If you require professional assistance in designing
and implementing your WWW site,