Design Your Castle
Do you want to use the internet to promote your Business or Project? If this is true the first thing you will want to do is secure and build your online home base. You need a website that can serve as a foundation and platform that you can then use to launch other online promotions and campaigns.
Below are some points to keep in mind
- Your site should look good You should create a site that looks professional and elegant. Pick a good color scheme. You want a look that makes sense for the point you are trying to get across. Your site should be streamlined and sharp looking.
- Figure out exactly what you want your site to accomplish Websites can do a lot of different things. It is important to figure out exactly what you want to happen when a potential viewer goes to your site. Most people will not stay long at a website, unless they see clear, easy to understand options that will quickly direct them to what they are looking for. If your site is informational you will want to direct people to that information with ease. If the goal of your site is to generate a lead you will want to immediately have an option to sign up for a mailing list. It is important to be very focused with how you direct and funnel the traffic to your site. If there are too many options and it is confusing, people will not stay long and will not come back.
- Dynamic content It is a good idea to incorporate dynamic aspects similar to many modern websites. For example, you can have a blog that you can update on a regular basis. This will help for SEO and keep things fresh. Other examples of dynamic content might be where a user can sign up and have a public profile page.
- Remember SEO As you are designing the pages of your site you should pay attention to keyword phrasing. It is a good idea to try and optimize each page to a separate group of keyword phrases that you have a good chance of getting high search engine ranking in.
- Compatibility There are many technologies that can be used in the development of your website. Click Here for a list of popular technologies. It is important to use technologies that will be highly compatible with the various browsers and operating systems on the market. You can have multiple versions of your site so that one version will be optimized for a mobile phone while another could be optimized for a normal web browser. Some technologies such as adobe Flash will not work on some systems such as Iphone or Ipads. You want to make sure that all major internet browsing applications will be able to view and operate your website.
Now what?
Once you have your website up the next thing you will want to do is start promoting it and drive traffic to it. Click Here for more info.