People access the web in many ways not just on a PC or Mac.
Whether it’s a lifestyle choice or through necessity you may find visitors to your website using any of the following devises:
Whether it’s a lifestyle choice or through necessity you may find visitors to your website using any of the following devises:
- A screen reader because of visual impairment
- A smartphone,
- An iphone, ipod or ipad simply because of a busy lifestyle
- A games console
Therefore, it’s important your website functions as well as possible on as many different platforms as you can reasonably account for.
If you hosting company supplies web stats you might be surprised to find out exactly how many different ways people have already tried to browse your site.
Accessibility: The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has developed a series of accessibility standards and guidelines to make the web accessibly to people with disabilities.
Following these standards will ensure your website content is visible to all.
Speed and Bandwidth: In today’s age of super-fast broadband you might think this isn’t an issue anymore.
Well it’s not such a big deal as it used to be but that doesn’t mean speed should be taken for granted.
You never know what set up your website visitor is going to have, how many people might be sharing a connection, how far a rural community might be from an exchange or even the technology limitations of far-off countries?
With rich media, video, audio, animations and high-quality graphics all playing a part in making your website look the business it’s all going to go to be wasted effort if a potential customer is put off waiting for your page to load.
Quality: How your website looks and behaves is all down to the programming language telling the browser how and what to display.
With WYSIWYG tools and online website templates making website creation easy you don’t have to be a website developer to make a website anymore.
But how do you know that the website that gets spat out the other end is any good?
Errors in the code could prevent the information being displayed properly or hinder a search engine form indexing your site.
Navigation and Links: This is one of the most important parts of a website.
If your website is packed full of great content but it’s difficult to access due to a complex navigation system or if your website is riddled with broken links your visitors will be off looking at your competitors before you know it.
Legality: Are you aware that as a limited company it is a legal requirement to display certain company registration information on your website?
If you hosting company supplies web stats you might be surprised to find out exactly how many different ways people have already tried to browse your site.
Accessibility: The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has developed a series of accessibility standards and guidelines to make the web accessibly to people with disabilities.
Following these standards will ensure your website content is visible to all.
Speed and Bandwidth: In today’s age of super-fast broadband you might think this isn’t an issue anymore.
Well it’s not such a big deal as it used to be but that doesn’t mean speed should be taken for granted.
You never know what set up your website visitor is going to have, how many people might be sharing a connection, how far a rural community might be from an exchange or even the technology limitations of far-off countries?
With rich media, video, audio, animations and high-quality graphics all playing a part in making your website look the business it’s all going to go to be wasted effort if a potential customer is put off waiting for your page to load.
Quality: How your website looks and behaves is all down to the programming language telling the browser how and what to display.
With WYSIWYG tools and online website templates making website creation easy you don’t have to be a website developer to make a website anymore.
But how do you know that the website that gets spat out the other end is any good?
Errors in the code could prevent the information being displayed properly or hinder a search engine form indexing your site.
Navigation and Links: This is one of the most important parts of a website.
If your website is packed full of great content but it’s difficult to access due to a complex navigation system or if your website is riddled with broken links your visitors will be off looking at your competitors before you know it.
Legality: Are you aware that as a limited company it is a legal requirement to display certain company registration information on your website?
If you collect user data through your website, if you take payments through your website, there are various rules of conduct that you must adhere to.
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Our content management system - soCMS - coupled with our website design and development skills will give you a fully functional website, increasing your visitors and improving your conversion rates.
We also offer a brand new soCMS pay monthly website design package giving you a brand new website with no upfront cost.
We are conveniently located right between Bristol and Bath providing services for local businesses. Click the following link to find out more about our Website Design Services for Bristol and Bath
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