10 things you should know about website design
- Balance the glamor and guts - an amazing looking website is useless without good content as is a website that has really good content but is so ugly or unweldy that people leave as soon as they enter
- Treat your web designer with respect and not like a complete geek (even though they probably are) - you'll get much better service if you're poilte
- It costs more and takes longer than you think
- Avoid consigning your newly made website to a slow and lingering death by updating it regularly - it's annoying in the extreme to come across website content that hasn't been updated in a zillion years
- Don't spend loads of money on fancy-shmancy website software - you can probably get it open-source and free elsewhere
- Don't expect your website to end up necessarily looking like how you envision it. Web design is limited by it's code and the W3C standards - an idea you have might be truely groundbreaking and awesome but if it can't be done, it can't be done.
- There is far more to a website than what you see on the screen
- Most of the people in the web industry are complete idiots (sad, but true)
- If you build it, they won't necessarily come
- And most importantly - Know and understand what you want first (ask yourself the who, what, where, when, how and why - what do you want out of your website, who is your audience, what's the content going to be - lots of pictures or lots of text? etc)
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