Designing a website can be a hectic and stressful
process, especially when you are a startup or small business owner working with
an external website design expert, but taking time to understand what it takes
to create an effective, long-lasting responsive website for your business is
essential.
In this document, you will get an insight to the
time and effort it takes to build a website and what you should expect when
working with an external website agency. The following includes what you should know;
What do you have to do ensure that the website is completed as quickly as possible yet very efficient?
The first thing is to carry out some internal
planning that will ensure you have the required resources available for the
parts of the design project where your feedback is required. Then, ask about
who the decision-makers are for each stage of the process in order to prepare
them in advance to make time available for you to review their delivery and
provide feedback. Make sure you limit the major decision makers as a part of
this process because a crowded feedback can lead to confusion and this clouds
the website design process rather clarifying it.
What content management
system (CMS) options do you have in place? Do they have a choice of CMS? How
does their choice affect completion time?
There are several types of websites and each type
of website requires a CMS that perfectly suits your website design for effective
and efficient functionality. For ecommerce websites, both Magento and
Woocommerce platforms are great. Both platforms have an enormous amount of
functionality, hundreds of existing premium plug-ins and extensions for added
functionality, as well as a ton of information online for support and
troubleshooting. For informational websites, the choice of WordPress is great.
WordPress is a scalable platform that is very easy-to-use with beautiful themes
and plugins. Two other great CMS options that are available today are Joomla
and Drupal.
What features of
designing a website take the longest time and additional cost?
If you are wondering about which features of
designing a website take more time and are worth additional cost, it's best to
take note of the features that can help rank your website higher and make it
more visible in online search engines. Consider features that can help improve
your website usability when your target audience starts visiting it and provide
them with tools/information required to make a conversion.
One great feature of modern website designs is the
integration of social media. Having links to your (or your business’) social
media profiles on your website is really beneficial. If you want a high
engagement with your customers and their feedback, you should integrate social
media links into it for a user-generated content. You can as well feed in
content from your social media channels on the website such as customer
reviews, customer comments/tweets etc. Blogposts are another great feature that
can be a huge asset to any business.
Lastly,
it is significant to note that rich media content gets better engagement from
your target audience and can play a higher role in the ranking factor.
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