Top 3 Necessary Considerations When Making/Designing and Website

Websites are now the store-fronts of the new generation. The way it looks and runs impacts how many customers it interacts with on the page. Even before being asked this question, I do believe that I still would have been able to break up information into about 3 categories when discussing how to design a website. It really comes down to the looks, content, and use of the website.

When you browse the Internet for anything, weather it be for new, sports, or shopping, the sites that can attract the users eyes are the most affective. Webdesign from scratch.com had good information on making sites appealing to “browse”. Users don’t want to read through lines and lines of text when looking for their information. They want it in bullet forms and easier to quickly scan down the page. Using colors, and different boxes(really, the whole layout and design for the site), your site needs to look attractive, because a site could have all the information in the world, but if it cant sell it well with the sites looks, many people will fly right over it.

The second aspect of that needs to be covered when designing a proper website is that it needs to be use-able. Because of new Internet technology and computer tools, so much more can be done on a website that just click links and download music. You can watch videos, play games, edit music tracks, use graphs, just tons of stuff that keep the user busy within your site. The information from a podcast I listened to (Note: Podcast- I should have mentioned this in my previous sentence), had tons of info on ways to sell your site. It was from Clearcastdigital media. One of the main reasons that I consistently go to espn.com for ALL of my sports news, is because their site is so deep with interactive features with-in all the content makers for a extremely well rounded site. I can watch video highlight and news packages on my favorite basketball teams game, and I can see stat graphs tracking the progress of a games score that’s not being aired on TV. Tools are so important because the more time a user spends on your site, the more the user can trust and rely on the site to always be there when the user needs information.

 The third and final piece of of a design for website is content. . If the tool and features of a site are considered the “guts/organs” of a website, the content is definitely the”meat/muscle”. When a user gets past the design and looks of the site, and really digs within the site for info they want, the more links, new stories, posting, basically words, there are, the more the user will want to come back with just the slightest bit of hesitation. A real life example of this has to be The InternetMovieDatabase, otherwise known as IMDB.com. Any time I have just the slightest bit of question or concern about “wasn’t she that girl from some movie?”, or basically any sort of movie/TV show related inquiry I go to imdb.com. You know why? because it is 100% exactly that. A database. The fullest, up-to-date database that there possibly is for movie/television. It is so rich and full of content, that I i need to find a specific quote from any given movie, or even priceless trivia for that matter,I’m almost guaranteed to find it on the sidebar of the movies imdb page. You could have the coolest looking site but with out content, it might as well be covered in ads, because without content, there is no need for design.

I think website design is really circular. You need content to support your design, but without design nobody will get to your site. every part of the design process needs a solid performance from an other part in order to be a sufficient and dominant website.