Holistic website design?
Web pages are just part of what we call in the trade ‘web presence’. Nothing spooky going on here, we’re just stepping back and looking at the big picture from a holistic perspective. An holistic website will only work well if all the components are working together. Here’s a summary…
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What is a website?
For the browser, it’s the visual experience of seeing content, ie: images, text, animation, links; the human view but is it the most important? If you’re a search engine, it’s coding that makes the web page work, especially some of the coding content identified by search engines and cached for future searches.
Google ‘snippet’ result
Where are websites?
In most cases your first visual experience of a website will be a search result on a search engine, most likely Google. So the first impression is a results page is a ‘snippet’, if this isn’t set up correctly or not in place at all you’re already out of the picture.
Web name choice?
Is it not a good idea to have a .co.uk web name for a .co.uk search engine?
Should there be keywords in a web name?
Spaces (-) between the web name words so a search engine can read who you are?
Choosing the right web name is an important decision and can impact on your search results and how humans look for you on search engines.
Web site hosting
If you’re a UK business your hosting should be in the UK simply because search engines know where your website is in the world. A lot of the low cost on-line web solutions are based on overseas servers. Search engines will think you’re a non-UK website and reduce your position in preference to UK hosted sites.
Multi-platform/device responsive web design
How are people seeing your web pages?
Desktop PC, laptop, tablet, mobile phones….Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari…4G, 5G, WiFi – perm any of these to achieve about 75% correct, your web pages have to be completely ‘responsive’ for all scenarios and future proof as the www changes over time. That’s why OHM use WordPress, the worlds most popular web design service.
Web pages change depending on screen size
Web page design
The human experience once the potential customer has found your web pages (with all the above in place) will influence their concept of your business, the key design elements being
- page layout
- menu
- image use
- text use
- fonts
- colours
- animation
- videography
Putting a nice design together with a balance of content (for all devices to view) is the holy grail of web design. We’ve all seen the website with too much text or low quality imagery, a difficult to navigate menu, ghastly colours, poor spelling and grammar, badly designed logo – they all send a negative feel about your business.
perfect design using corporate colours
In summary, the holistic approach to web design is to consider all elements of your web presence, work hard to get them all right and you have a perfect website.
Here at OHM we work with the client to achieve the very best, contact us for more information about why you should us for your web design.
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