3 Rules of Website Designing and Layout

Now that you have got your domain name registered, your next worry is about designing a website or getting it designed, depending on your budget and knowledge.

To help the newbie's start it right - Design your website before getting the domain name registered. Why park an empty domain on the web justlike that? Why waste even a single day after registration? right? So abetter idea is to keep your "small but complete" site ready. Assoon as domain name registration notification arrives, upload thepages. You can keep adding value forever.

"Small but complete" is what is being explained thru' this article. Keep 3 things in mind. Simplicity, appropriate content & Easy navigation. Try striking a perfect balance between them and you are bound to succeed.

Simplicity: Keep everything about your website simple. Flow of content, language,layout and terminology. Considering the potential of your visitor (whomight be your future client/buyer/affiliate) and his technicalignorance, you will do yourself a great deal of good sticking tosimplicity. However stylized or hi fi your site is, if it can't hold the traffic or visitor's attention- its pointless

Appropriate content: Content is the king. No augments. Always look at contentis two parts. One, keeping the visitors in mind and the other keepingthe spiders. Visitor needs emotional convincing and the spider -logical. Meta tags and keywords are what will come in handy withSpiders, visitors can be reached across better if we can help themidentify and relate to our message or proposal in a more emotionalmanner. He will not buy from your site because you have designed yousite in java or your because he found your core key-phrase in theanchor tag! He will have to be aspired... thus, content is the soul ofsite and you will have to keep it ticking...

Navigation: Let your site be very easy to navigate. A closely weaved theme, and therefore a well presented index will help the visitor togain focus and think in a certain direction. A SITE MAP ISA MUST. All the pages, as you keep adding them to your site should finda place on the site map. Spider should be able to reach all your pagesthru site map. Another important thing to keep in mind is try toconnect each link page from one other station besides sitemap.Connect your internal pages with each other according to their theme.No orphan pages. No broken links...

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