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5 Must-Have Tips for Great Web Design

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Just as you are judged by your appearance and how you speak and conduct yourself in the offline world, in the online world you are judged by your website’s appearance.

It doesn’t matter if you offer great products, great prices, or both — if your website is out of date, shoddily constructed, or riddled with errors, the majority of your target market won’t give you the time of day.

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Besides making sure you have a clean looking layout, up to date information, and an accurate spell-checker, here are five additional tips that you’ll want to use as a checklist of sorts before launching a new website:

1) Keep your content up to date. Whether you use automated content management tools or do things manually, make sure you update product descriptions, stock, and prices – try to check in on content at least once a week so that out-of-date information is never a problem.

2) Check up on outgoing links to make sure they’re still valid. Websites can be redirected or taken down at a moment’s notice, so make sure all of your links are working – and without a second thought, remove any that don’t.

3) Ask a colleague or friend to go over your website for grammatical errors, even if you’ve already done so. A fresh set of eyes may spot the one glaring error your tired eyes managed to overlook. Some of the companies that offer web design and hosting services may also offer proofreading and editing services, so you can also outsource this type of project for a nominal fee.

4) Keep your scripts up to date. Nothing makes a webmaster feel more foolish than having their website — or worse yet, the entire server their website is hosted on — brought down due to an outdated script that a few clicks would have fixed.

5) Know when to ask for help. Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, no single person can do everything on their own. Enlist the help of friends, co-workers, or family members to help with adding content, editing photos, or uploading media.

For web design and social media and general online marketing, consider outsourcing some jobs to freelancers – they generally charge less than design firms, and can provide a quicker turnaround.

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Dana Davis focuses on small business and the use of gifts to show appreciation in relationships. She researches gifts of all kinds and especially personalized and engraved executive gifts for ExecGiftsBlog.com.
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  1. These tips are very useful for designing website. web design is one of the most important aspects of our online presence. This does not necessarily mean you need to pay exorbitant amount of money for top-tier designers. but rather that you need to find a style of web design that works for your business. Thanks for sharing this.

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  2. Interesting article. Now days, Web design is one of the most important factor any type of website, specially travel, e-commerce websites. Responsive website are also most important and must needed factor.
    Thanks for sharing this.

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  5. web design is best way getting sucess in online business portal and many type of online business

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  7. I agree that it\’s helpful to keep website content current and relevant. Over the years, I have been leery of any website that would provide outdated information. As a result, I myself have also been more up to date in my overall knowledge. Looking back, though, I would have taken even more measures to ensure accurate knowledge acquisition.

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  8. Freshness is the most important thing for web design, keeping the things upto date make visitors return again and again…

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  9. Its surprising that having a responsive or at least m-friendly website doesn\’t make the top 5 considerations. This ranks high for both user experience and seo concerns.

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  12. I would like to offer a tip to anyone using an out source web service like freelancer.

    Hire someone who speaks your language as their FIRST language.

    Communications break down when Google Translate is used between the web designer and the customer. Trust me. I used to do web design on through these sites. I started winning bids when I made it clear that I spoke USA English all my life. All of my customers were frustrated with communications problems they had with their previous designers who spoke some English, or relied on translation software. The two people just couldn’t understand each other perfectly through email.

    Rob

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  13. Obviously seems like a review summed up for having a better web design and emphasizing the importance of must-haves for a website. I just want to stress on one thing that is the responsiveness of a website. People are on a fast pace today and they want everything to be instantaneous. Nobody would want to keep waiting for something. Same will be the expectations while using a website or an application as said so in goo.gl/gtCak8

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  14. Thx for this post, my weakness is my grammar (i’m not english native btw) and i always have to ask my wife to check my spellings ;)Success.

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  17. Question about:

    4) Keep your scripts up to date.
    Is there a way to effectively be proactive about script maintenance? How can you know your scripts are outdated unless something breaks?

    Thanks.

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