Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Effective Website Development

Ronn Jones

Internet is the new media that has been creating a buzz everywhere lately. Be it an aspiring musician, a model or a successful organization, everyone now wants to make its presence felt on the new media, the much hyped and talked about internet. This online presence is often materialized by creating a website or webpage containing useful information along with media files that help to highlight the USP of the individual or organization. The main idea is to get an edge over competition by venturing into a newly and still largely untapped region. But this “untapped region” is not so untapped after all. It’s a common trend for businesses and individuals to go online in the present day and this has again effectively introduced a new area of competition. There are millions of websites and webpages scattered all over the World Wide Web and the numbers are growing every single second. So how does a particular site stand out from its competitors, attract more clients and exert maximum influence?

In order to answer this question, we need to understand the source of visitors to any website. There can be many sources like hyperlinks from a particular page, word of mouth and viral procedures. However, the primary source of visitors to any website is through the search engines. Search engines list websites on the basis of a number of parameters and the ones listed on the first page, especially towards the top, gets more visitors than the others. In order to get a website listed on top of any search engine result index, a whole lot of technical issues need to be taken care of. These are known as search engine optimization techniques. However, it’s not just these techniques that would help a website gain advantage over its competitions. The SEO techniques require support from design aspects too. For example, a particular website with very good search engine listing would attract a lot of visitors but if it does not have a proper navigation facility, the visitors would not be able to find what they are looking for and would eventually abandon the site.

It is definitely not possible for any one person to handle all the aspects of an effective website. So the best possible option is to go for professional help. One good thing is, presently there are several companies offering professional website development service at an affordable rate. However, it’s best to have an overview of the services they offer before entrusting one with the job. A firm that offers a whole bunch of services right from the development of the site, the designing aspects and search engine optimization techniques to support each other would surely be the best choice