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June 5, 2007
Web Design: Order in the court...and in the website!
If you have a website that you visit frequently for information, the odds are that at some point or another, you’ve come across an archive site that may have terrific information, but it’s virtually inaccessible because its webmaster has allowed it to become run down. This means that the site’s links are broken, its style is out of shape, and its flow doesn’t work logically anymore. Though it may still be legible in many cases, it is entirely unattractive and frequently has nonfunctioning elements.
The same goes for pages whose content has clearly been posted without being reviewed for grammatical and spelling errors. Instead of reading a professional piece of work that gives you the feeling that its information is credible and useful, you feel as though you’re reading a draft whose information may or not be valid, and would need to be verified before taking it to heart.
Don’t let this happen to your website. Maintaining your site regularly can save you hours of “housecleaning” time that will be required if you let things go. If you let your site get run down, you’ll need to go over every element, and every word you have written. Depending on the size of your site, this can practically become a full time job in itself. By maintaining it regularly, you make certain that you never let it get to that point.
Furthermore, consider what your site visitors must be thinking when they see such shoddy maintenance and poor writing. They certainly won’t be taking you seriously. In fact, the odds are that before they even have the chance to take you seriously, they’ll already have moved on to another site. That’s the last thing that you want them to do.
Therefore, it’s very important that you keep the following three points in mind:
- You must constantly keep up with your website.
- You should periodically give your entire site a review to make sure that nothing has fallen through the cracks without your noticing in the regular maintenance.
- Since content is the most important thing that a website can have - content is king - you need to make sure that your content is as great as it can be.
Mark
Posted by Mark at June 5, 2007 11:31 AM
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