You can design your own web site if;
- you have the knowledge and the software to do so,
- if you registered your domain at a hosting company,
- if you have internet access to upload your website to the server.
Disadvantage of this action,
- after many hours in designing your website may have many internal errors that you don’t know of which will;
- effect the way the search engines react to your site, they may even blacklist your website,
- your visitors might not visit your site again due to these errors,
- it might not display correctly,
- some aspects may not work,
- listing and indexing websites will become a problem because everybody is rejecting your website due to the errors and/or missing criteria,
It will trouble you and you would not know why your website is not working for you, it is better to get the professionals to do the job.
Web designing has become a professional and specified field and it is enforced by numerous institutions. Search engines will penalize your website if it does not contain certain criteria. This is to ensure that only the best websites are always listed first when an Internet user is searching for information, regardless of how nice and stunning your website look.
How many pages can my website have?
This is a very good question and it is very important to take note about these facts. There are no specific regulation for this, but it is good practice not to waist pages.
During the Planning Stage of your website you will have to determine how many pages your site will have. It is important to assure that your website is streamline and that you don’t have any duplications. Additional pages can always be added at a later stage, should it be necessary.
It is good practice to have at least the following pages;
- Introduction
- More about you/your business
- Your Products
- Your Services
- Contact Details
Then it is very important to include the following pages. These pages are important and will protect you in the case of lawsuit.
- Terms and Conditions
- Disclaimers
To improve your page ranking and to assist your visitors and make your website more user friendly you have to include the following pages.
- Site Map
- Links
Your web designer will assist you to assure that your web pages are streamline, search engine friendly and most importantly visitor friendly.
When should I update my website?
This is something that you have to decide for yourself, because you will know when things change in your business. It is actually very important that your website is always up to date, and the search engines actually check when last your site was updated.
Many clients don’t believe it but a well updated website do perform better than a neglected website.
The following are only some of the most neglected features that are not updated regularly;
- Forums & bloggs
- calendar feature,
- price lists,
- products and service descriptions and features,
- contact details,
- portfolio’s.
I hope that this helped you.
