The Ramblings of a Fosgnilbmareht

If you are going to redesign your website, or convert your website to a CMS (Content Management System), the first thing you should do is to sit down and figure out what you need. I know I wrote about this before but I can’t stress it enough. A website is often times the first thing people go to in order to find out information about your company. If it looks like it was made by a 2nd grader, or it’s from the early 90’s, it’s not making a good impression.

Your main focus should be on usability. you may have the flashiest website out there but if people can’t use it, then it is USELESS. Navigation should be straight forward, easy to understand and should not take you in circles. It should be well laid out before it is even created and content is even flowed. Start with site architecture and every thing else will be so much easier. If you have to click through 10 different menus to get to something that should be a main link, something is wrong. If you have a search and that doesn’t find what you are looking for then there is another problem.

A good website is gold. It is money in your pocket (or the companies, whoever). It will lend the company respect and earn customer trust. You wouldn’t want to do business with a company that has a bad website so why expect your customers to do the same. Make your site look professional, elegant and clean and you will get more business. If you don’t please let me know as I would really like to know why.