ASP Web Hosting and Design Go Together
You have heard of Hostgator, Dreamhost, and Bluehost as some of the more popular web hosting services out there. Top rated, cheap hosting is really not that hard to find and you should not spend too much time doing it. Don’t get me wrong, reliability is important, but many people waste too much time looking for the perfect host. Jsut make sure your choice can handle these things and you will be OK.
1. Your business’s Home away from Home — it’s like the headquarters of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.
2. Imagine yourself as the visitor. — Eliminate all the possible confusion for the visitor. If they get frustrated they will simple leave your site and move on to the next one. KISS.
3. Reduce the number of images on your website — They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.
4. Each paragraph needs to be short and sweet — Imagine coming to a web page that has 500 words on it, but it is only broken up into 3 paragraphs. If you are like me, I’m out of there. It’s too hard to read. Shorter paragraphs are easier to read and they allow for the visitor to at least skim through the content, which is better than leaving.
5. Make sure your website complies to web standards at w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer, but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.
6. Please, back away from the scripts — I would say just stay away from them all together. They slow the loading of your site way, way down. Remember, keep things very simple. You don’t always need all the fancy flashing lights. Let people find what they are looking for.
Hang with some basic web design principles and you will be well on your way of creating a solid web business.
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