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10 Tips to Make a Website That Works

10 Tips to Make a Website That Works

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10 Tips to Make a Website That Works

1/ Make sure that your website is responsive

Your clients use laptops to visit your website, but tablets

and smartphones too.

2012 - 2014:mobile devices +20%

Use responsive design technology.

Test your responsive design here.

2/ Create a familiar interface for your visitors

Your visitors have to find some “standard” key

references to find their way on your website.

Use a clear and familiar website layout for internet users.

3/ Only use high quality images

Visual appearance is important for 93% of

consumers.

Your website has to show your professionalism. Take

care of details.

4/ Use readable fonts and colors

Don’t:

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accumsan. Integer laoreet tincidunt nulla. Curabituret odio eget sapien sollicitudin ornare. Ut a venenatistortor, ac commodo mauris. Fusce vitae felis nec velittempor eleifend. Ut malesuada arcu quis elit feugiat

dapibus vitae in erat. Nunc nec tincidunt tellus. Aliquam scelerisque tempus vestibulum. Aliquam

rhoncus placerat nulla et congue. Proin tristique quamconsectetur purus hendrerit blandit.

Do:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulladignissim at nunc eu sollicitudin.

Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada famesac turpis egestas. Duis fringilla mi vel

porta accumsan. Integer laoreettincidunt nulla. Curabitur et odio eget

sapien sollicitudin ornare. Ut a venenatis tortor, ac commodo mauris.

Fusce vitae felis nec velit temporeleifend. Ut malesuada arcu quis elit

feugiat dapibus vitae in erat. Nunc nec tincidunt tellus. Aliquam scelerisque

tempus vestibulum. Aliquam rhoncusplacerat nulla et congue.

Use 2-3 colors and 2-3 fonts for the whole

website.

5/ Format text

Internet users scan more than they read

websites.

They should find any information

easily.

Don’t:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consecteturadipiscing elit. Nulla dignissim at nunc eu sollicitudin. Pellentesque habitant morbitristique senectus et netus et malesuadafames ac turpis egestas. Duis fringilla mi vel porta accumsan. Integer laoreettincidunt nulla. Curabitur et odio egetsapien sollicitudin ornare. Ut a venenatistortor, ac commodo mauris. Fusce vitae felis nec velit tempor eleifend. Ut malesuada arcu quis elit feugiat dapibusvitae in erat. Nunc nec tincidunt tellus. Aliquam scelerisque tempus vestibulum. Aliquam rhoncus placerat nulla et congue. Proin tristique quam consecteturpurus hendrerit blandit.

Do:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Consectetur adipiscing elit, nulla dignissim at nunc eu sollicitudin. Pellentesque habitant morbitristique senectus et netus et malesuada famesac turpis egestas.

Duis fringilla mi vel porta accumsan. Integerlaoreet tincidunt nulla.

• Curabitur et odio eget

• Ut a venenatis tortor

• Fusce vitae felis nec velit

• Ut malesuada arcu quis elit

Nunc nec tincidunt tellus

Aliquam scelerisque tempus vestibulum. Aliquamrhoncus placerat nulla et congue.

Use formatting options.

6/ Make your website comfortable for your users

Your visitors have to find any information simply.

Structure your menu. It has to answer these 5

questions:

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

7/ Use the right keywords

Think as your client to

find the best

keywords to describe

your business.

Mix specific and general keywords. Integrate these keywords to the content of

your website to improve your SEO.

Strawberry jam

Wild strawberry jam

Artisanal strawberry jam

Buy strawberry jam

Buy jam

Sell jam

8/ Avoid technical words

Your clients are not all

professionals.

Search engine optimization is a methodology of strategies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors

to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement in the search

results page of a search engine (SERP) - including Google,

Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.

Webopedia

Search engine optimization (SEO)

is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web

page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid

("organic") search results.

Wikipedia

Simply explain your work and your services.

9/ Create unique content

Give interesting and useful information to

your visitors.

Your readers will return again and again.

10/ Update your website

Your website is your display window.

Update your website at least 2-3 times per month.

Summarizing:

1/ Make sure that your website is responsive2/ Create a familiar interface for your visitors

3/ Use only high quality images4/ Use readable fonts and colors

5/ Format text6/ Make your website comfortable for your users

7/ Use right keywords8/ Avoid technical words9/ Create unique content10/ Update your website

And now …

… enjoy your gorgeous website!

Thanks for photos to:

DaveBleasdale / thebarrowboy / bgottsab / Chasing Daisy / Denis Dervisevic / theanthonyryan / Spielbrick Films / Sebastiaan ter Burg / Seattle Municipal Archives / Paul Kline / LendingMemo / Ambernectar

13 / tompagenet / Benson Kua / Albany Associates / joiseyshowaa / Nick Bastian Tempe / AZ, torbus / Daniel Dionne / MIKI Yoshihito (´・ω・

) / mao_lini / VFS Digital Design / K.rol2007 / Veronique Debord / karindalziel / aesop