 Apart from matters of hosting a website, your website has one main purpose and that is to provide information to others. While information is key you must also account for design because the vehicle in which your message is carried makes a difference.
As you build your website, or as you're having your website built keep one thing in mind and that is "why are people visiting my website". People visit a website to get something and your purpose in building a website is to define the purpose. Once you've defined that purpose, the next step is to build your site around that purpose making sure to maximize the functionality of your site in relation to that purpose.
Following developing strategy ensures that your website offers an enriching experience and foster a long term relationship with the audience that visits your website. Organizing the information on your website effectively so that people who visit your website are able to easily click and find what they're looking for without fuss.
Information on a website can be organized in many different ways however there are five core principles in terms of organizing your information.
- You want to account for your content. For instance, what do you have and what you need?
- Set an ordered or hierarchical outline of all your stuff (content) and create a structure that displays you major content prominently
- Make sure to separaed you stuff (content) in to defined blocks with a categorical structure.
- Illustrate flowcharts that display the site outline and also illustrates a quick diagram of how the pages link to each other.
- And the most important thing is to test your site with your audience and measure how easy it s for them to navigate your site.
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