Do your homework before building your site - By: Rick Dahne

A website is more than the online premises of a business. Your website will be your business face, your conversation with customers, your showroom, the suit you wear at industry conferences and just about everything else for your business on the internet. This is why getting your website design right is so crucial. Here are five things to take into consideration before even one strand of code is written for your web development:

*Consider your compatibility. The most popular web browsers haven't changed in the last few years, but there is a possibility that they may do so. There is also more than one popular browser at the moment. Check that your website design is going to work on Internet Explorer and Firefox as a bare minimum before you launch.

*Look at your SEO options. Your website is nothing more than an expensive digital business card if you're not visible on the search engine results pages. Website development can have a big impact on the eventual rankings of your pages in the search engines, so it's a good idea to think about search engine optimisation even before your site is built.

*Think about the future. It's near-impossible to predict the future of the internet. Note the 'near' before 'impossible'. It is possible to study trends in internet use and alterations, and weave some basic future-proofing into your web design. Talk to our experts at Click Consult about what trends might affect your site.

*Build for usability. You have a target market, and no doubt you've invested a lot of time and money in investigating exactly what they're looking for in an online business. Build your website to suit them. Too many sites make the mistake of trying to bend their customers to their will, losing those customers as a result.

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