Advice on web sites

1. Design. The design should be appropriate - some sites should look fun and bouncy - some conservative and sedate. The site should load quickly and give your essential information without wasting the time of your visitor.
2. Organisation. Visitors need to be able to navigate easily and quickly. On a large site it can useful to have a bulletin board to inform regular visitors of updates.
3. Loading speed. A beautiful and exciting site - packed with wonderful graphics - is a total waste if your visitors get bored while waiting for it to load. They'll go away and won't come back.
4. Search engines. If you want your site to be found by those searching or surfing the web then it must be written to be search engine friendly and placed on the appropriate search engines. There is a lot to understand in search engine placement, but most of it comes down to the importance of metatags and relevant key words in the site text. The following link help you get your head around what is involved a little more - and when your site is complete this and on search engines you should check this again.

5. Cost. You get what you pay for - but you can also pay through the nose for the wrong thing. Contact swalkon and discuss what you really need before you you get trapped in the web.

What do you need to consider when you want a web site?