Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Tips on web development

A good web development professional is preferred choice among many. Here are few tips on web development:

* Know your target audience. Before making a design or selecting the template on behalf of the client, exactly know for whom the products and services would be rendered. For instances, if the client is into the business of providing day care facility, then it would focus on facilities being offered by them. You have to create a site that gives the audience information, firstly about the facilities and how day care will be helpful to them. Secondly, they would like to the activities that Day care unit will provide to kids. Thirdly what will the adult and children ratio? In short you have to make a site that makes the audience comfortable and gives them reason to go for the day care services. Similarly for developing other e commerce sites, you need to know the “TARGET AUDIENCE”. Hence, your site should very elaborately meet the expectations of the customers.

* AS a web developer your need to make a site that is unique and attractive. Therefore study the competitor’s site, especially the ones that are among the top ten. See the content they have used, images used, how different pages are made. Have they incorporated any of the multimedia features or not. Is the site simple or has a flash design. This will give you an idea on how to go about the website.

* Understand some of the SEO concepts like traffic metrics, transactions metrics & customers response before making a site. This will help you in understanding the complete e commerce business for a particular industry much better and assist in developing a great website.

* Have a yardstick for yourself. It is important for you to know your goals and performance statistics. For outwitting the customers it is necessary for you to develop a unique site.

* While you carry on the web development, highlight extra ordinary services that the client offering very attractively. This will help in making a web design that make site developed by you a distinct one.

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