Comments on: The Importance Of A Website For Your Business

By: lindseyjohn

lindseyjohn — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:51:18 +0000

Great article! Having a website is essential for business success in today’s digital world. It provides accessibility, and convenience, and builds credibility. Well done!

By: DPS David

DPS David — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:14:53 +0000

Well actually, I do have to admit that initially, rather than being annoyed, I couldn’t stop laughing.

And I’m not trying to be mean, just honest! And I am equally not trying to be mean to the webmaster – I just needed an example to illustrate a few points. However this is by no means the only website which commits cardinal sins in web design. Far from it, it is one of many!

Businesses need websites. They also need websites that work well and look good. Get professionals in to do them – you’ll gain much more custom than it costs!

Haha Ben, I like your innocent plug for the competition there ;).

Thanks Ben :).

And you’ve made some great extra points. CSS has been around for years, and no website should be online without at least one stylesheet. It looks better, has more functionality and saves hours of repetitive coding – anyone remember the fun days of ‘bgcolor=’ * 1,000 for each of your table cells? ;).

Floaters and absolutes! Floaters aren’t good at the best of times ;). And yeah, absolute positioned divs are similar in many ways to frames and you make a valid point. However, I must stress that an absolute div (that’s a

with the style “position:absolute” (just in case of any misunderstanding!) is better than a frame any day of the week.

Testing in other browsers is a definite must, especially for business sites. There are many different browsers being used these days from many different publishers – and not only that there are different types of browsers (mobile, desktop etc). Another good point to make here is look at the stats / logs for your website. Have a look at what browsers your visitors are using – make sure you test your site in each of these browsers and try to cater for the vast majority, if not all, of these browsers.

And your final point, that is definitely a pet hate of mine also. Plus, not only is it useless in the major search engines, you actually get penalised and in some cases removed from the SERPs.

Thanks for your contribution of valuable points Ben :). And if you see any “exciting” examples, feel free to share them ;).

By: Ben Stones

Ben Stones — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:57:49 +0000

lol. some website annoyed you David? 😉

Feel free to visit my amazing design @ inbritech.com 😉 simple, elegant and good use of colours too ;-).

Good article though, case in point and you’ve pretty much nailed all of the no-dos when designing web sites. My suggestion to people would be to:

– Make a design elegantly simple but while making it simple, make it feel complete.
– Good use of colours that match the theme and purpose of your web site and the type of audience that will be regularly visiting your web site.
– Perfect every single detail – make sure when links are a different colour to standard text (but make it blend nicely), and make different colour shades for click and hover (a:hover and a:active selectors).
– Use CSS if you can. If you don’t, you’re not going to go very far :p.
– Do not use excessive floating and absolutely-positioned elements as it will not work well on lower display resolutions
– Test your designs in other browsers
– And something that annoys me the most – don’t add 5 trillion keywords on your web site and bold and hyperlink every other word for SEO. it doesn’t work well with visitors, nor intelligent search engines.