Don’t Let Website Issues Ruin Your Great Business Plan
Friday, August 28th, 2009A strong business plan can still perform terribly due to isues with website design and/or web hosting. When considering which design company to hire, take a pencil and play ‘web design bingo’ – we suggest a ‘full house’ to happen when a website design outfit notes these listed areas when talking about your planned new site:-
- YOUR business idea – talking in detail about what the business purposes are – what’s the website design company’s feelings about your proposal ?
- importance of usability – so your audience are able to perform all tasks without thinking on your website
- accessibility issues – so your site is able to be physically accessed by all, with the text clearly understood by the market the site is targeted at
- SEO (or search engine optimisation) – providing your site great rankings in search engines
- CMS (content mangement systems) – permitting you to add, edit and delete content on your website by oneself at any moment
- website security – safety of private data, with regular backups of data.
- website hosting – will the web development company host your website? How about their servers? Are they using shared servers with 100s of other companies on the very same server, or are they using managed servers?
- tech support and after-sales – will they serve your business after the site is live? If so, how much is tech support? Do they offer updates?
A decent website design team will enlighten you on the preceding issues, and how they tackle them.
How to locate such a website design firm? It’s advisable to find one local to you, permitting you to visit them and get some peace of mind that they are also a real company with a strong team to do the job well. On Google, use a search keyphrase like “web design” plus your location; for instance : web development leicestershire. This will supply you with a listing of web design outfits in your locality.