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5 myths about web design
1- Web
development is expensive.
Web development can be very inexpensive, it all depends on how
big is the project and how long it will take to finish. Startup
companies wrongly delay their web sites production fearing that
it will cost too much... and they loose sales and exposure because
of that. Small and highly attractive sites area very inexpensive
and they can attract lots of new prospects.
2- I can do my company's website myself.
Nowadays, the image of your site, as well as the rest of your
corporate identity are the self-representation of your company
towards itself and the rest of the world. Building an amateur
website is simply not appropiate. The result usually does not
look good and it has many technical problems: slow downloads,
bad appearance in different browsers, bad appearance in different
screen resolutions, etc... In addition to this, you will end up
wasting a lot of time.
3- It MUST have video and sound!
There are people who believe that a good website must be colourful,
full of graphics, and animation. It should also have video clips
and sound along with frames. It may work sometimes….. It
will look good to web surfers who use broadband connections. The
majority of the web surfers till today uses dialup connections.
For them, web pages full of graphics will take forever to load.
4- Everything should appear in the home page.
Information distribution in your website is as important as design
and programming. Cramping the home page with information will
result in an unattractive and confuse website. Divide your contents
according to the importance they have to your business and to
the users of your site. Building a correct hierarchy of contents
is one of the keys to success.
5- Web design is just about the looks.
There are thousands of qualities that make a good web site. As
a matter of fact, many websites require a team of people to develop
them. The aspects of concern cover navigability, information design,
graphic design and programming. A good website manages to meet
a balance between how it looks, its information, its download
speed, its usability and its content management system (back end).
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