Website considerations
Things to consider when you are choosing your website:
- Define Its Purpose - What are you looking to achieve with your website,
it is a wise course of action to plan ahead and decide what it is you want
your site to achieve, do you need to:
Advertise your business presence
Or create an online community
Do you need the ability to frequently update your site yourself?
- Choose your Preferences - It can help if you have a clear idea of
your taste in web styles,browsing the web with an open mind and considering
your audience as well as choosing a particular type of functionality or a
design you admire will also help in your final decision.
- Images - Do ensure that you have full copyright use of images and
that they are in medium resolution (jpg or PNG format is best)
- Your Identity - This is important are you looking for a site that
will be "YOU" or to compliment "YOU" remember the use
of the web is increasing all the time and your identity needs to be consistant
for a company image which is not in the end confusing to your customers!
- Domain Names - As with the note above your domain name should be
consistant with your corporate image and the image you wish to portray ie
this site is ID-Host a division of Independent Design Ltd hence the ID at
the beginning and the Host at the end signifying that we do very well at hosting
websites. you can have more than one domain name and have them all pointing
to the same web site this means you can cover all types of searches easily!
- Web Hosting - This is the physical server space that holds your website
for the world to discover there are 2 main types available nowadays those
that run on windows and those that run on linux, ours have a 99.9% guarantee
of uptime and run on linux this ensures a very good degree of virus protection
and includes Cpanel as standard. From the Cpanel you can access information
that shows how well your site is perfoming, its bandwidth usage and a host
of other services.
Popular Types Of Website
E-Commerce - Online Shops have many options our favoured shopping
cart will work with a variety of payment processors including Paypal to suit
both large and small turnovers. We strongley recommend that payment processing
is done remotely by a third party (ie. Paypal, Sagepay secure trading etc)
which are well known and therefore helps with customer confidence and also
removes the need for expensive high level security on your site.
Brochure Websites - These are by far the most popular websites on
the internet for commercial use, they are basically an on line advert and
information portal and therefore tend to be the least expensive to produce
our listings of costs on this site are for brochure sites with a small amount
of interactivity ie contact forms etc but they can contain embedded you tube
videos and other external feeds at little extra costs.
Blog Sites - Blogs (originally called weB-LOGS) are often requested because they are the first form of interactive website that people come into contact with They are nowadays part of a full websiite or an accessory that is added later (CPanel has a choice of blogs available for configuration)
Should you wish your visitors to have a greater interactivity in your site then a forum may be for you. Forums enable instant edits online, they can support a large number of contributors and thousands of posts.
