How to have an effective website as a Web Designer
If you are a talented web designer, the Internet is the perfect place for you to showcase your work. However, it does not matter how skilled you are if you do not take advantage of good website building that uses less resources on a web server.
It is with this in mind that we figured it was well about time that we wrote a little something about simple mistakes that people tend to make on their websites, as well as giving you a couple of tips. To begin with, many web designers usually choose either reseller web hosting or server hosting plans. The reason for this is that reseller hosting is great if you want to sell a complete package to your client – everything from the design to the hosting will be included. Server hosting is simply a good alternative as it is one of the strongest and most reliable hosting plans on the market today. Now, let us take a look at mistakes you should avoid.
Common mistakes
Poor navigation
It is crucial that your visitors are able to navigate smoothly on your website. When it comes to the web the phrase less is more should be somewhat of your guiding star. A website that is crammed with images, links and banners will annoy and confuse your visitors, and make them leave your site.
Overusing bandwidth
If you have your website on server hosting, also known as dedicated hosting, you most likely will not have to think about overusing your bandwidth but with shared hosting it is another story. Yes, shared hosting is also pretty solid but try to not push the bandwidth to its limit. Remember that you have to think about the people visiting your site as well – sites with heavy graphics can be quite a struggle for some that have a poor Internet connection.
Complex graphics
Try to avoid complex graphics as it might cause your site not to get indexed by the search engine spiders. Also, in using graphics such as Flash you might force your visitors to download a plugin – something that usually is not all that appreciated.
Tips & Tricks
Internal linking
Try to not only think about the search engines spiders when designing a website. Your visitors are just as, if not even more, important. Help your readers by linking, in a helpful and user-friendly way, within your content. Link to your most important articles or portfolio pieces and showcase them. Create a site map to show both the search engine and visitors where everything on the site is located.
Create pages with good content
To boost the authority of your website you need to create several pages on your website. This way more pages will get indexed by the search engines, but remember what we said above. Your visitors are the most important, so only create pages if they serve a purpose and are easy to navigate.
Remember, your web design portfolio and blog (if you choose to have one) is the virtual spirit of your creativity and ability to develop good, clean websites. If your site is entirely no-indexed, then no one on Google will find you. If your site has high-res graphics, you’ll suck up bandwidth and annoy visitors on low bandwidths. Just as you optimize your clients’ sites, do the same for yourself.
David loves to write about the latest news in the website hosting industry. Make sure to check out his blog at hosting nerds speakeasy. Indeed, he is nerdy.
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pretty basic, but still a great list of things to think about.
If you are a talented web designer, the Internet is the perfect place for you to showcase your work..
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Thanks a lot for giving usefull information
You forgot the most important topics for “Webdesigner Websites” so I see not why you title this “effective as an webdesigner” ??????
1. Valid Code, valid Code, valid Code! No mistakes!
2. good contact possibilities, contact information (people want to know WHERE the designer they might hire sits
3. References, (only if approved by the clients) so that possible clients can get an idea of your style
4. a list of your skills
5. not only contact form, also form to ask about prices etc.
Why do I write YOUR article? ;=(
Pretty good post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
that I have really enjoyed browsing your posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you post again soon!
Connie,
Those are all some good points.
Everyone is different as to where their priority is. I would say an easy navigation, CSS, and a good design are the most important things to me to have an effective website.
There are a lot of different things that can go into an effective websites, and indeed the things you listed along with this article are all important.
You are more than welcome to write articles for us.
http://www.denisdesigns.com/blog/contribute/
Thanks April, I’m glad you like the site!
Useful tips. Good article. Question: with regard to graphics…. What does a mouse biting through a VGA monitor cable have to do with bandwidth ;) …jk just thought i’d say what others might be thinking
Ryan
How to have an effective website as a Web Designer…
If you are a talented web designer, the Internet is the perfect place for you to showcase your work. However, it does not matter how skilled you are if you do not take advantage of good website building that uses less resources on a web server.
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Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Perfect tips, just the article I needed to kick me into re-designing my portfolio site!
Wouldn’t clients look to your site to see if you are worth hiring? It needn’t be all minimalist and pluralist… It should display your skill to the maximum extent possible. Won’t they think “If you don’t display your skill on your own site then what about on my project?”
Raj
Wow thanks for the information, I was wondering about this!
Cool post, just subscribed.
Nice Article. Have bookmarked your site! Keep it up!
Nice info- Will come back again soon=)
Thanks for the great info always looking for anything to increase the views on my site.
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Thanks, this is nice topic.
Nice blog, just book marked it for later reference
Such a usefule blog…wow !!!!
Thanks for the refresher.
Definitely a list of basic things to do, but it’s the basics that we forget to do most of the time.
Keep up the good work!
To your success,
Dhane
I agree with the comments as well are your article. It’s important to provide potential customers with information about you, the Freelancer. This is the major reason they are going to choose you was their website designer of choice.