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Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Don’t Let Website Problems Ruin Your Business Plan

Regardless of how fantastic your business strategy, success can still allude you if your website is not visible in the search engines, and/or you put up with incompetent website hosting (for instance slow loading pages or downtime). When thinking about which web design firm to hire, get out your pen and play ‘web development bingo’ - we judge a ‘full card’ to be website development firms that at least mention the following when talking about your planned new site:-

• YOUR business plan - talking in detail in terms of what your purposes are - what is the website design company’s thoughts of your proposal ?
• importance of usability - your audience are able to do all tasks without thinking on the website
• accessibility - so your site is able to be accessed by everyone, with content understood by the intended target market
• SEO (or search engine optimization) - giving your site good rankings in search engines
• content management systems (or CMS) - letting you add/amend/delete content on your website by oneself at any moment
• website security - safety measures to guard private data, with regular backups of data.
• site hosting - will the website development firm host your site? If so, what about the servers? Do they use shared servers with potentially thousands of other sites on the very same server, or are they using dedicated servers?
• support and after sales - will they be around to support your business after the site is live? How much is technical support? What about website updates?

A professional web design firm will inform you of the preceding issues, and how they handle them.

So how to locate a website development company in the first place? It’s advisable to get one in your location, so you can meet up with them and be assured that they are also a real firm with a skilled team to do the job well. In a search engine, use a search term like “web development” and add your area; for instance : web design nottingham. This will supply you with a list of website development companies in your locality.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 10:25 pm and is filed under Design, Logos, Graphics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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