By clearly defining the main purpose of your website early on you can avoid creating a web page design with conflicting purposes.
Look around and see what other websites have as their common purpose and how they execute accordingly.
Decide Whether You Are Going To D.I.Y
After your purposes are clear you now have to decide whether or not this will be your personal project and if you are going to outsource. Each have their own set of pros and cons and should be considered not as a fixed decision but as something flexible that changes according to what stage you and your business are in. for initial website design it would be a good idea to outsource, but if you have enough confidence in you abilities, knowledge and endurance you should go ahead and do your best.
Website design is complex and requires a number of different skill sets that aren’t commonly found in any one person.
The Skills You Need For Web Designing Are:
HTML savvy ; good web design software can help but fine tuning your design requires you to get up close and personal with the raw HTML code
Good artistic taste
Graphic design and color experience
Knowledge of website navigation design and implementationcgi and data base programming
JavaScript and flash programming
Marketing and business experience
Your Website Should Be:
Convenient to read
Quick to ‘get’
Easy to navigate
Simple to understand
Logically layer out
Well organized
Listed as high as possible in search engine result pages
Noticeable
Fast to find
Directly downloadable
Continuously consistent
How to Make Your Web Page Easy To Read
Take time when choosing your text - this includes font, size, color as well as actual content. Never have the text size too small as this is hard to read. Be careful of going too large though as this will seem to visitors that you are demanding and shouting at them
Choose your colors very carefully - you don’t want your background to obscure your text or use colors that are stressful on the eyes.
A Few Extra Tips Just Because
If you don’t already have one, now is the time to build a brand.
Sell your products directly over the internet. What you want to do is conduct e-commerce and sells to not only the national but also the international market. If you’re not working with products you can offer your services online wich then can be done over the internet or initiated online.
Create an online brochure that makes thing easier for the potential customer. You want people to know who you are, what you do, where to find you and how to contact you. Including a product land price list won’t hurt.