Before starting on how to design a website effectively, how about clearing some basic web design concepts? Designing Effectively Now that you know what web design and related terms mean, lets get down to the real thing: Designing Effectively How to balance artistic design with practicality and functionality.
Unless your website is all about graphics, how to make them, edit them or just a bunch of links to graphics websites, I suggest you use graphics sparingly, especially the flashing, twirling kind. They not only detract readers from the content, but they also take ages to load. You do not want your readers to leave your website because your graphically attractive page does not seem to load fast enough. Then again, too much text is boring. So mix and match the graphics and text on your page, having enough white space so that the page is not plain annoying.
Use of graphics and content Unless your website is all about graphics, how to make them, edit them or just a bunch of links to graphics websites, I suggest you use graphics sparingly, especially the flashing, twirling kind. They not only detract readers from the content, but they also take ages to load. You do not want your readers to leave your website because your graphically attractive page does not seem to load fast enough. Then again, too much text is boring. So mix and match the graphics and text on your page, having enough white space so that the page is not plain annoying.
This is tricky because if your only
marketing will be Organic Search/ PPC you may want a keyword spam type domain
name. i.e.or whatever. If you are going to advertise your website in your print
advertising, business cards etc. You want something someone can see and
remember. You can rank any site with time and effort but as far as I know
keywords in the domain name are still a factor in all the engines so it’s just
a little harder. The best solution to this problem is to just simply have 2
domain names. One for print and one for ranking. Have your print domain
redirected to the keyword rich domain name and you get the best of both worlds.
I would focus on building (or having built) a SEO friendly SENSECS site that was easy to add content/new pages to as well as having a blog installed. I would make sure the site looked professional of course, I believe that WEBDESIGN having quality photography and a clean design are the two best ways to get a professional site. I would have a very limited amount of outgoing links on my main page and NO BANNERS from directories.