What Are the Advantages to Creating Free Websites?

criação de sites em alphavilleYou might own an excellent company, with a workforce of top industry talent. Updated Content: If your site looks dated, you need to give it a makeover. The leading industry websites offer active blogs, videos, staff profiles and fresh content. Try to incorporate engaging content on your website.

SEO and Google

Owning an informative and appealing website is fine -- but if no one ever finds it, there's not much point. These days, optimizing your site to rank highly in the search engines is mandatory. SEO is the best way to drive targeted traffic to your website. With increased traffic, your website will give you a far better return.

Google AdWords and Analytics enable you to gauge sales and conversions. Also, they give you an insight into visitor behavior on your website. They show you how people found your website, and how to improve visitor retention rates. You should always include relevant keywords on your site.

Finally, your site needs to sell your company to visitors, by explaining your services in a way that appeals to prospective clients. Sales copy writing is an art that can take years to master. If you are not good at writing sales copy yourself, consider hiring a professional. With the technological speed in the internet age, pretty much everyone has a website or an online presence of some kind. From business profiles to photo sharing, websites are necessary to communicate with the rest of the world. Some people choose to start creating free websites to fulfill this space age desire.

Here are some generic tips for creating great looking websites that will not only get higher visits but the conversions will also jump up due to good design.

WEB DESIGN TIPS FOR CREATING RESULT-ORIENTED GRAPHICS

- Create lighter graphics

Always think about keeping your graphic images small, mostly 10-12 KB. Many webmasters only focus on creating a visual without thinking about its presentation on the Internet. Websites with heavier graphics take too long to load and are less productive.

- Forget about fancy images

Many good designs lose their appeal because of fancy images, usually blinking. If you want to keep your design decent and attractive, forget about fancy images.

- Graphics should reflect the content

If you want to create graphics that will deliver results instead of just being 'catchy', think about creating graphics that will accurately reflect website content. In other words, content and graphics should have a close intimacy with each other.

WEBSITE DESIGN TIPS FOR CREATING A GREAT LAYOUT

- Follow the standards

Using 8 frames on a page will not do any good to your design. Following a standard layout will not only help you to render your pages across all the different browser, it will also keep the layout simple helping you to deliver the message across, without a problem.

- Always prepare a layout on paper before creating it in your graphic program

Most designers get to their computer screens straightaway without first creating a design idea on paper. Even if you are that type, consider creating a basic layout in your graphic program before working on elements of your layout.

WEB DESIGN TIPS RELATED TO FONT, ADVERTISING AND COLOR

- Think about your reader

Always think about your reader when setting fonts, colors and advertising areas.

- Keep a balance between content, graphic and advertisement

Always create a layout that accurately balances graphic and content with advertisement.