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5 Must-Have Tips for Great Web Design

January 22, 2015 By Dana Davis 21 Comments

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It doesn’t matter if you offer great products, great prices, or both — if your website is out of date, shoddily constructed, or riddled with errors, the majority of your target market won’t give you the time of day.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make sure you update product descriptions, stock, and prices – try to check in on content at least once a week so that out-of-date information is never a problem.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foolish than having their website — or worse yet, the entire server their website is hosted on — brought down due to an outdated script that a few clicks would have fixed.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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Comments

  1. Ajay says

    February 6, 2018 at 1:05 am

    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.

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      March 14, 2018 at 3:01 pm

      When commenting on GrowMap, please only use a name in the name field. If you use keywords, your comments will be deleted.
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  2. GDS booking system says

    February 1, 2018 at 1:08 am

    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.

    Reply
  3. usama jawed says

    September 8, 2017 at 8:03 am

    Nice Article as you said keep your article on date. I always try to keep my articles on date.Please keep sharing good post like this.
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  4. Thomas Eric says

    July 9, 2017 at 3:12 am

    Hey!

    Thanks for your tips. Well, Keeping your content update is the most important point you discuss above. I like your post very much. Keep on sharing…..

    Good job..
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  5. Vikas Bishnoi says

    July 6, 2017 at 1:36 am

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

    Reply
  6. Subh Sandhu says

    November 13, 2016 at 1:19 am

    thanks for these tips , web designing is a great step in SEO .
    your first tip about up to date content is hardly true .
    my English is not good , that is my weakness .
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    • Badshah says

      June 14, 2017 at 11:17 pm

      Bhai to hindi mein likh de koi nahi rokega. Kyon ki galat english se arth ka anarth kar de raha hai tu
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  7. Rob Benton says

    December 16, 2015 at 12:10 am

    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.

    Reply
  8. Sonali says

    September 26, 2015 at 5:52 am

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

    Reply
  9. Mat Fidge says

    March 2, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      March 4, 2015 at 3:24 am

      Hi Mat,

      By now hopefully everyone accepts that all sites must be responsive and work well on all mobile devices.
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    February 2, 2015 at 12:16 pm

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  11. Avi says

    January 30, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    This was a good one. I agree with the regular update, which should be necessary always in order to carry up the very own blog in good stage and point 3 – asking a friend for mistake is also appreciable but now we can use seo audit and squirrly to modify these. Anyways a good one. Thanks
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  12. Rob Newman says

    January 29, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    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. Andrea Watson says

    January 28, 2015 at 7:09 am

    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. JeremyWA says

    January 27, 2015 at 11:13 am

    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.

    Reply
  15. honey singh says

    January 26, 2015 at 8:45 am

    Thanks for sharing all this information in the above article. The post is highly informative and your 5 tips for web designing are really effective for beginners as well as the seniors of designing.
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  16. Anirudh Pulikonda says

    January 25, 2015 at 2:57 am

    As always very nice article keep it up. Web designing is the main aspect in every website design looks. so writing an article to help improve web designing is really appreciated
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  17. Solomon Woods says

    January 24, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    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.

    Reply
  18. Raees says

    January 24, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Web designing play an important role to visible your content in a better way. Therefore you should design your blog in a better way.
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