September 22, 2009

Create strategies to attract more visitors by making your website easy to use ..

Building a showy website alone would go waste if you do not allow your visitors to use it without difficulty. A website requires easy usability, engagement of the visitors, and interesting stuff to let it run and serve the purpose of its being. Here are a few points that could simplify the difficulty about making your website easy to use, focused and attractive at the same time.

How do you present your business through your website?

Your website is the mirror to your business. Attracting visitors to your website and then generating business – all depends upon the manner in which you present your business. In fact, your website plays a major role in maintaining your brand identity. For presenting your website efficiently, a few tips might help.

  • Too many colors could make your website very repulsive
  • The images need to be optimized so that they do not take too much time in loading.
  • The fonts used in your website should maintain uniformity. For example, if your homepage content has the font ‘times new roman’ and another page has ‘Ariel’ as its font, it depicts un-professionalism.
  • Your website has to be compatible to all internet browsers.

Is the navigation of your website complicated?

Your site visitors do not have enough time or patience to go on searching your website for finding the relevant information. So if the navigation of your site is made easy, it can create a great difference. Inserting a few of these tools can serve the purpose:

  • Site maps: Site maps tell you what all are stuffed in your website and let visitors decide on which page they can land up directly.
  • Links: The links serve as connectors within your website. They make your visitors reach the targeted page with ease. So, your site needs to have links that could bring your site visitors to the home page, then to the top of the page or to other pages within the site.
  • Navigation panels: Every website needs to have a navigation panel because it directs the various customers to various areas on your website. These are usually found on the left hand side of a web page.
  • Search bar: A search bar is useful in large sites. It takes in keywords from visitors and enables them to land on their desired relevant pages.

How good is your web content?

The content in your website needs to be tested well before uploading them on your website. It should in fact have a special appeal to your visitors. The quality of the content should be such that it retains your visitors for longer time and then watch them come back to your website again and again. Few factors should be kept in mind while writing content for your site:

  • Originality.
  • Free from grammatical errors or spelling mistakes.
  • Easy and understandable language.
  • Not too elaborate but provide the relevant information efficiently.
  • Important informations need to be highlighted or put under bullets.

I am sure you can keep your website alive by applying these key components and make it more ravishing and easy to employ.

Do you have anything that can add to this article? We would love to hear from you.

By: Shabana.

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September 10, 2009

Have you ever realized how essential the content in your website can be? If not, check this out…

While you attempt to boost up your business by attracting people to your website, content can be said to be one of the main facets in doing the same. The content that is put up in your website needs to be tested out. It should be such that it can have specific appeal to your target audience. In simple words, your writing should be such that it attracts people all over.

When you write content for your website, certain things need to be brought to notice:

  • The content that you create for your website should have the originality. It should be different and unique, conveying the right message to the right group of people. Moreover, fresh content with the visitor’s expectations in view would always be appreciated.
  • When you write good content, it reflects the writer’s individuality because it contains one’s flavor in it. Essentially, always try and add in a personal touch to the content. This would always interest the reader and he would be able to relate with the write-up. Indeed, if you are not able to give your best to your writing, it would be of no use putting it online as it would not bring repeated visitors.
  • The language that you use for your content has to be in easy and understandable. Visitors would turn away from your website if they require a dictionary to read the content. Easily readable content or articles can draw the attention of the visitors and would even interest them in your products or services if they are well written about.
  • There might be some web pages that contain spelling mistakes or grammatical errors and this may cause damage to your business in several ways. In the first place, it could harm the reputation of your company because such basic errors look very unprofessional. Secondly, improper writing affects the rankings on search engines. If there is no one to proof-read your content, put it into a word processor and run the spell check. This would definitely help!
  • If you think you do not get enough time to compile articles or put up content on your website, there is an option to pick up relevant article from wherever possible but keep in mind to mention the source at the end. Otherwise there might be copyright issues which might affect your business as well.
  • Make the content detailed enough to provide sufficient information, yet also keep it brief enough to get him interested in speaking with you. Ideally, the content of the website should be a good gel of paragraphs and bullet points, leading the reader to the contact us page and filling up his / her details.
  • On a final note, updating content on the website would assist readers in remaining updated with the latest developments at your end. We understand that in some business, the nature is such that is does not allow you to. However, a section like ‘What’s New’ or ‘Industry Updates’ would surely have something new for the site users to read.

Content is thus a good weapon on the internet and most of the time helps to win complete favor of the potential clients. It can again be said to be an effective communicating tool that informs people about everything that is happening around your business. So along with the site design and development, why not keep a steady watch on the content as well?

Why not give a thought to it and share with us..?

By:  Shabana

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July 28, 2009

Web 1.0 and Web 2.0..its all about the transition!!

Internet gaining grounds gradually, any new easily accessible tool that comes to be known is accepted by all web users. With the advent of various platforms for the easy use of internet, many people were getting used to web 1.0; but when the next version evolved, it entirely replaced web 1.0 all because it could involve the internet surfers besides the webmasters. It has people from every corner of the world to become a part of one large community. Consequently the web culture has been revolutionized with Web 2.0 touching the internet ground. A few of the changeovers are defined below:

  • When Web 1.0 was in use, it was Double Click dominating the online  advertising services, but with Web 2.0, Google Ad Sense is taking the hold.
  • Flickr surpass Ofoto because of its easy-to-run capability with web 2.0 applications.
  • With the advent of Web 2.0, came the concept of blogging which intends to be interactive giving all information about yourself or your company. This was initially done through the personal websites on the Web 1.0 platform.
  • In Web 1.0, only publishing of articles or content was possible, but with Web 2.0 participation of writers is facilitated.
  • MP3.com, build on Web 1.0 platform, could only allow users to gather information about music, songs, artists etc, but Napster.com that is build upon Web 2.0 platform, allows people to easily share their MP3 files among each other without worrying about copyright issues.
  • Britannica Online, on the Web 1.0 medium, served the purpose of online research results but when Web 2.0 came into being, Wikipedia proved to serve this purpose better because it involves contribution.

Thus we see that the elements that differentiate Web 2.0 from Web 1.0 are numerous. Moreover, if we try to look into the benefits of Web 2.0, we find that it enhances user interface, increases interactivity, and allows the ease to get connected.

So what are you waiting for?? Give your suggestions or comments and stay tuned for the next version.

By: Shabana

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