Building your first website is an important part of establishing your online presence for potential customers and loyal customers to gather information, share ideas and purchase your products and services.
If you have never built a website before, there are a few essential elements you will want to include before you launch your site.
Compelling Content
Your website may serve many functions: entertainment, information and purchasing. Your content should work towards the main goal of the website. If the goal of your website is to get potential clients to call your office and make an appointment, every piece of content should include a call to action and the contact information necessary to do so.
If your website’s main goal is to sell products directly, content should highlight the products you have for sale and always link to the products you are discussing in blog posts, videos or other types of content that appear on your site.
Clear Contact Information
One of the things that many first-time websites forget is contact information for their customers to use in case of questions, concerns or additional inquiries. While you may provide visitors with a comprehensive FAQ section, letting them contact you for more information through an email form or a toll free number will signal to them that you care and are truly interested in meeting their needs.
Easy Navigation
Another aspect of any website that can make or break the success is how easy it will be for visitors to navigate. Ideally you want your customers to be able to get from one page to another without constantly having to revisit the home page. This can be achieved through drop down or sidebar menus listing all of the web pages available.
To make sure the user experience is the best it can be on your site in terms of navigation, make sure to test it yourself to see if you can find any flaws in navigation or searching for the things you want to find on your website.
If you are interested in building your own site with quality web tools or having your site designed for you by the experts, you can learn more about the process and decide which option best meets your needs.
i am a newbie, whenever i search that what should i do to make my website efficient, there are hunderds of suggestions, and in the end i get confused.
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Hey Vishal,
Thanks for sharing informative article. These essential elements really helpful for me and other also too. I learned a lot of knowledge from this post. I’ll implements these things on my blogging site.
Thanks for this….
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hi vishal,
the post is well written but need some more tips the new website , although you have provided the basic tips to creating a website
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I feel another must have aspect in this day and age is responsive web design. Especially if its a topical blog or magazine style blog. Company blogs can get by without this to an extent.
Also with most blogging frameworks supporting this by default there is absolutely no excuse or reason not to implement this as well.
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That ‘Easy Navigation’ point is what differentiates good websites from the better one’s. In my personal experience i’ve noticed that a site with easy navigation tends to make readers come back for more.
Content is very important but a faster and easy to eye user interface can give wings to your content.
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That is true that compelling content is necessary for the survival of a blog, it attract readers and let them engage with your blog or website.
It is also necessary to start building email subscriber list from the first day of a blog as it help to gain loyal followers and also have social sharing buttons to let readers share what they like. this way you not only get good traffic but also get a good social presence.
Your tips are really noticeable. Keep writing more helpful information.
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