Friday, September 28, 2007

Website Design

Website design is a major part of today’s business, this is due to the fact that many people lead a busy day to day life and would rather search for things online. This has meant that a whole new market has been created in our global marketplace for programmers, graphic designers and it people alike. Website design is a major part of the internet, without a face on the internet your business will not succeed online, what a website can do is give you the image you are after at an affordable price for most businesses.

A website is a virtual office, it allows clients to view your products or services 24 hours a day. What most people do not understand is that there are only really two types of websites, the first style of website is information based and the second type is selling products.

Information websites come in an array of styles and formats. This would be simular to
www.leeroxdigital.com and allows viewers to go and see the services, past clients and an array of other information that will determine whether someone else will go further and read through your site.

The other type of website is E-Commerce
, a site like ebay is where you would purchase products online. This site goes and provides a service of information as well as online sales.

An important feature to recognize in your website is to keep your elements simple. A website is only effective if you have traffic viewing your site, for traffic to view your site it must navigate well and be simple to move from page to page. The use of too much flash distracts clients on websites, although I believe flash is a great asset on a site it must be used with caution, otherwise you risk a potential client looking at the flash and not the content.

Other forms of code are important to understand when a developer commits to building your website. Understanding the code is sometimes difficult however to explain it simply it is simular to translating Spanish to English. Codes such as ASP, .NET, PHP, Flash and HTML are all popular codes both in Australia and around the world.