1. WHAT IS A WEBSITE?
A Web site is a related
collection of World Wide Web
(WWW = system of interlinked
hypertext documents
accessed via the Internet.
With a web browser, one can
view web pages that may
contain
text, images, videos, and
other multimedia, and
navigate between them via
hyperlinks.) files that includes
a beginning file called a home
page. A company or an
individual tells you how to get
to their Web site by giving you
the address of their home
page. From the home
page, you can get to all the
other pages on their site.
2. WEBSITE FEATURES
10 crucial points for your online presence to be an ideal.
1. An Eye-catching Design
What is attracting the visitors first is a very design of your website. It shouldn’t be irritating – neither dull nor
too flashy.
The main purpose of your website’s attractive design is to keep the visitor and make him stay online for
further actions. In this case even color gamut will influence user’s mood and can win his or her favor or
quickly lose it.
So the first helpful hint for you is to think over your website’s design thoroughly. If you succeed at this stage
you can make use of the following points.
2. Convenient Navigation
It is clear that you visit a lot of websites every day and not all of them please you while surfing. Coming to a
website you want the interface to be easy and understandable, right? So let it not be a secret for you
anymore – your visitors want the same.
Think about placing all the links on your website in such a way that the user won’t become irritated by not
knowing where to click at. It is a significant point not to confuse the visitor of your website and thus not
to make him leave and forget about its existence.
3. Proper Content
What the users like very much is a content they are promised to see on the website. You better not play with it.
Once disappointed the visitor may not come again to see whether something has changed. So make sure your
website contains enough useful information to make the user interested and then your further updates
will really make sense.
Don’t forget about some helpful information concerning your website operating. All the users appreciate the
possibility to find the accurate answers for their questions.
3. WEBSITE FEATURES
4. Contact Information
It is essential some problems may arise during someone is wandering pages of your website. Perhaps not problems
but specific questions for sure. Anyway you should persuade the visitor that he or she may always rely on your
support.
It is not that good when a user can’t find the way to contact you. So be attentive to put all necessary contact
information (e-mail address, phone number, a link leading to a special contact form etc) in such a way that the
visitor can easily find and make use of it.
You should really mind that fact if you want your web presence to be evaluated not only as qualitative but also
supportive and responsible one.
5. Search Option
In case your website is crammed with different information it will be very convenient for the user to find the
necessary content with the help of search field. All he/she has to do is type some keywords and then check the
results of the search process.
Providing the visitors with search option will let them find what they are eager to quickly and easily, and believe they
will be much pleased with such possibility.
You can use either a Google Search or your Content Management System to establish a search function on your
website.
6. Sign-Up Form
It is very important for the user not to spend hours in search of “Sign-up” or “Register” button.
Remember that all the necessary fields and links have to be easily found by the visitor. Otherwise you may start
losing your clients as only a few will send you an e-mail asking where they should subscribe at.
Imagine what will happen when they can’t find an e-mail either, huh? So mind it.
4. WEBSITE FEATURES
7. Sitemap
Another useful option of your website is a sitemap which usually is of two types. One is for search engines and the other is for
the very visitors.
A website map itself is a list of links leading to all the pages your website contains. So by clicking the necessary link each of the
visitors may quickly get at necessary section of your online presence and enjoy his or her stay.
8. Web Browsers Compatibility
There is a number of web browsers used by the Internet users. And it is very important for your website to run properly in each
of them, whether it is Internet Explorer, Firefox or other browser.
It will be better for you not to prefer only certain web browsers and avoid others. That will somehow show your respect to the
potential clients if you try to make your website compatible with as many web browsers as you can.
9. Images
Building your website you of course paste a lot of images there to make your online presence look nice and eye-catching. So it
is very important for all the pictures to be of the proper format – neither too large nor pixelated.
300dpi is considered to be the standard resolution for an image but in case of website creating you should choose lower one.
Thus you will make an image file smaller and allow your visitors to download it quickly.
Some image editors has the “Save for webpage” option which helps you to save your picture automatically with a proper size
and resolution.
10. Analytics
The last useful point concerns the very owners of the websites. Statistics and analytics function helps them to see how popular
their web presence is and what aspects should be improved first of all.
With the help of statistics you can discover how do people find your website, who links to you, how many hits you have and so
on. You will get useful pieces of information from the stats and be a breast of your website’s every aspect!
5. USES OF WEBSITES
The World Wide Web is
has a multitude of uses.
Some of which have not
even been discovered
yet. Below is a partial
list of the kinds of web
sites that are available.
There are so many sub
categories under each
main category that I will
not try to list them all. I
will however try to give
an idea of the variety
here by listing a few.
6. USES OF WEBSITES
Business
Agriculture
Funeral Homes
Design
Wholesale
Travel
Culture
Advice
People
Fashion
Museums
Religion
Education
K-12
Higher Education
Journals / Research
Classroom Webpages
Individual Student Webpages
Personal
Hobbies
Interests
Family
Fan Pages
Pets
Employment
Careers
Job Searches
Work Place Issues
Unions
Organizations
Health
Nursing
Fitness
Disease
Pharmacy
First Aid
Entertainment
Movies
Music
Games
Humor
Radio
Government
Elections
Student Government
Law
Civic Participation
Military
Search engines
Yahoo!Advice
Google
Altavista
Ask Jeeves
Lycos
