When you build your first business website, your aim is to get it up and running. Challenge yourself to shift the focus of your build towards visibility and efficiency. The more visible your website is, the more opportunities your organization will have to connect with web users.
The more efficient your build, the better you will be able to process the digital services your website promises. Building a business website aimed towards sufficing those two specific needs for your organization will draw the most benefit from your site’s existence.
Here are a few ways to assure that your business website is built for success.
Design for movement
Web users need a way to explore and enjoy all the excellent content you create on your business website. Without navigation, your site is far from complete.
Traditionally, a stationary navigation bar added to your design will do the job. This concrete cutting business website shows just how efficient a floating navigation option is for visitors.
Creativity is welcomed in this department. Just don’t forget to keep it simple. Complicated navigation options can sway users from continuing their journey.
Design for mobile media
Mobile devices are becoming more and more prevalent in the lives of web users, and a mobile screen is much smaller than that of a PC or laptop. It is best that you design your content to display and function well on an array of screen sizes.
The easiest way to rig your content to comply is by adding media queries to your design coding. Media queries will set your page up to automatically adjust to the size of the display currently accessing your content.
Link your content to social media
Social media is an immense digital outlet for your business. Adding social media sharing icons in strategic locations throughout your website’s design will add the opportunity for your content to break through to the social network of the web.
Each time a web users utilizes your social media sharing icons, your business reaps the benefits of a tiny piece of free marketing. Give users the chance to help boost your organization, and integrate social media into your design.
Learn the value of SEO
Search engine optimization is a set of concepts you simply don’t want to build your website without. Once you open up the world of SEO in your designing mind, you will quickly see the significance of the knowledge.
Search engine optimization is the key to placing your digital content at the top of the search engine results pages (or SERPs) and boosting your visibility online. The easier your content is to find, the more traffic will come your way.
Originally posted on July 31, 2018 @ 11:19 am