What are the pitfalls of creating your own Website?
What are things that you should allow room for when you grow?
This is for a small service company.
Thank you
What are things that you should allow room for when you grow?
This is for a small service company.
Thank you
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Re: Pitfalls and growing room
Thu, August 10, 2006 - 5:45 PMThe biggest pitfall is designing something that is ugly or unusable. The ugly part can be dealt with by selecting a nice looking CMS template. The unusable part can be fixed by staying away from flash animations (not everyone allows flash), ASP or other protocals that are M$ only (there are many people on Macs and Linux machines), and having a valid page with all the links working. One other pitfall is not having enough content so you won't get a good page rank. -
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Re: Pitfalls and growing room
Thu, August 10, 2006 - 6:16 PM"ASP or other protocals that are M$ only "
excuse me? what does server-side code have to do with whether a linux or mac box can access a site. It's all HTML coming out of the HTTP port. I run many ASP based websites and all of them has linux and mac users connecting and using on a regular basis.
I do, however, agree with the Flash comment.
I would arrange things in a different priority:
1) usable site
2) content
3) promotion
4) aesthetics (there are plenty of studies out there that prove for specific markets that aethethics have little to no effect on conversions, but YMMV, it really depends on your site's demographics)
#1-3 are where 90% of websites blow it...
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Re: Pitfalls and growing room
Thu, August 10, 2006 - 7:21 PMUnfortunately with ASP, you get often poorly written VB. I should have been more clear. Not that the OP will jump into that anyway. Sticking with a nice secure Linux/Apache server with a CMS will help avoid most problems as well as give the visitors a nice site to visit.
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