Best Web Site Design

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How to Design a Better Website

Is the best web site design that which you pay for and hire a leading, expert designer to craft, or is it something you study for, practice doing, and create yourself? Learn more in this class for beginners.

If You Hire An Expert To Get The Best Web Design

If you want to use a qualified, experienced professional, you will want to research by visiting the sites of those same persons. Do not fall for their own advertising saying they offer the best website design in the world, on the planet, on the worldwide web, etc., for they may be bending the truth a bit (imagine that!?).

Web Design Ads

As you have probably seen elsewhere, more than one vendor will boast the best, will toss out this hyperbole, and will in effect have to be lying, save ONE.

For example, the latest TV ads for “fewest dropped calls” reveal two competing wireless companies each saying they are the number one company with the fewest dropped calls. Do the math, here, and realize that only one of them can actually boast the lowest number and they are endorsing themselves. And, why would you want any dropped calls in the first place?

The Big #1 Promise From Webmasters

Another thing to watch for is the designer who includes a promise to make your pages so kwr (keyword rich) that they will rank number one on the search engines!

First, if they are advertising to anyone other than you, how are they making hundreds of websites #1? That would make for a very crowded rank space.

Second, they do not know what they are doing/saying, as search engines do not all crawl the web using keywords as their primary grasping element. Some search by other measures, looking at, for example, relevance.

Third, again, the person offering the best web design might be rating the work by criteria in his/her favor, not by the standards.

So if you go to the professionals for the best web site design, you are smart to study and maybe even take classes from the gurus, the internationally renowned, experienced, respected, and proven experts — such as Jacob Neilsen, who runs http://www.useit.com/alertbox/, which offers hundreds of legitimate, legal, and practical “lessons”. Then, look at hundreds of samples.

Do the web site designers practice what they (or others) preach?

The "Do It Yourself" Best Web Site Design

If you decide on a do-it-yourself project, again, follow the following advice for the best web site design strategies and techniques and practices.

Your website should be highly accessible (and there are standards and tricks for making it so), and equally usable (a k a, user friendly, with fonts, colors, and content appropriate and accessible for target audiences).

At the same time, the best web site design does not include any sneaky, underhanded, or internet-illegal material or technique—it cannot have hidden urls, cannot be loaded with key words, etc.—or it will be blacklisted, booted from the directories, ignored, exiled, etc..

The Lighter Side Of Self Website Designing

It is easier to create web pages than it has ever been before. Even a few years ago, you needed a considerable amount of experience and knowledge to design your own website. It was not easy to build web pages in those days. So, you decide if you want to really get into learning HTML or build pages using templates and forms. The choice is completely yours!

P.S. Speaking of which, I just finished writing a review of two Internet design courses which do exactly that. If interested, you can check out the product reviews here ...

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