Website design tips and resources

Here you will find a number of articles related to planning and designing your website, with a particular emphasis on items of interest to new website owners.

Building a successful website needs an appreciation of what works and what doesn't work on the web. It is much more than just having the latest "gizmo".

Here we are adding articles that will help you understand the basics about web design and creating a successful website - but if in any doubt, just contact us and we will do our best to help you.

Website Tips and Resources

Planning your website

• Why build a website?
  What do you intend to achieve by building a website? Define your website objectives clearly - and stick to them - and your website will succeed.
• Website pages
  What pages do you need on a website?
• Writing for the web
  Tips for writing the content of web pages
• Good website design
  Ways to encourage your visitors to stay
• Bad website design
  Ideas to drive away your visitors!
• Web page planner
  Getting down to the actual planning of the content of a web page
• Web page planning worksheet
  

  A worksheet to help you plan the content of a web page that you can download and/or print

Domain names

• Domain names
  A domain name is an address on the internet. It is also known as a "URL" or Uniform Resource Locator. It's the address you type into the address bar of your browser to go to a specific website.

Keywords and keyword phrases

• Keywords and keyword phrases
  Choosing effective keywords and key-phrases requires imagination, hard work and time. If you don't choose effective keywords, all your efforts to boost your visibility in search engine results, will be wasted.
• Choosing keywords
  Choose keywords that accurately reflect the content of each page - one page at a time, and choose words that are searched for but not too popular
• Researching keywords
  Select a phrase that accurately reflects the content of the page: then thoroughly research this phrase - don't just assume it's the best you can use! Use one or more of the many online "Keyword suggestion tools"
• Keywords - where to use them
  To get the full benefit of your keywords they need to be used 'behind the scenes', in the coding - here are details of how you can use them to your advantage. Even if you don't code the pages yourself, you need to write the best words for your pages.
• Keywords quick tips
  A quick summary

Meta tags and titles tags

• Meta tags
  Meta tags are pieces of code and text placed in the head of a web page which are designed to provide information to search engines about the contents of that page, to help browsers display the page correctly and to help readers see quickly what the page is about.
• Meta keywords
  What are they? Are they of any use?
• The title tag or page title
  The most important tag on a web page: writing good title tags is essential for getting good results in search engines.
• Meta description tag
  Description meta tags are important because they are often used directly by search engines in their results page, particularly if the search terms and your description closely match and they provide a short summary of the page for use by readers

Page headings

• Web page headings
  Headings and sub-headings on web pages are an important part of the structure of the page for readers and search engines and therefore need to be given appropriate heading tags, not simply made to look like headings.

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