I Want To Build A Website But I Don't Know Where To Start?
If you are asking this question, you are in the right place! In this article, we offer a few suggestions to guide you based on our experience. You can learn about the website building process, how to find the right company and the important points to consider when getting quotes.
Before making a site to the web design company, you should determine the type and purpose of your website.
If you want a personal website; you can create a simple and professional personal website to promote yourself, your projects or your hobbies.
What is a personal web page? These are web pages created to host personal content that does not belong to a company, organisation or institution. Personal web pages can be used for articles, academic information, entertainment or social networking with other people with common interests. You can use it by adding your personal skills, experiences, career marketing and CV. You can share your writings, showcase your pictures, give recipes and talk about your hobbies. You can share your academic articles, events and announcements.
Portfolio and reference sites where creative professionals such as artists, designers, photographers exhibit their work are examples of personal website types.
If you are a corporate company; The corporate website to be prepared for you should be a corporate website that your target audience can understand you best, complete with appropriate visuals and content for your sector, and clearly express your corporate identity and the sector you serve. It should contain the features of your sector and should be a website design that will clearly respond to the requests of your target audience.
What is a corporate website? These are professional websites created by companies or organisations to promote their services, products and brand identity.
On your website, clearly show your customers how your products and services can make their lives easier.
For example; You are a company that produces architectural models and you may want your business to be effective not only domestically but also abroad. You can promote your services and products by using more than one language and make it known that you are the best. You can contact more customers.
The e-commerce site to be prepared should be designed to encourage your target audience to buy. A successful e-commerce site should be able to convey the necessary information to its customers in the easiest way and in the most accurate way. It is the one that answers all the questions of the customer and has a design that can easily make a purchase. Your site visitor should want to shop from your site and enjoy this shopping.
What is an e-commerce site? It is a virtual store where products or services are sold over the internet. It allows customers to examine products online and purchase them with different payment methods. It allows your company to reach a wider audience.
An e-commerce site requires more experience as it has a more complex structure. Processes need to be handled more carefully than a simple website. After the customer receives the product, the commercial flow continues.
eCommerce sites need to be constantly developed, updated and controlled.
Today, many websites can have the characteristics of all three categories.
On your website; providing value to your visitors and meeting their needs should be your most important goal. When creating the content of your site, you should prioritise your products and services, clearly explain the benefits and give importance to user experience.
Great, you have decided for what purpose you want to have a website, now we can start designing our site and dreaming.
Content
Your site name will be your brand name. We'll call it a domain. You will be recognised by this name. In a sense, you can think like your company name. But it will be your name on the internet. It may be different from your official company name.
For example; Let's assume that the name of your company is Yasemin Tekstil Limited Company, your name on the internet can be yasemintekstil.com or you can think of a name such as clothingisart.com
You can choose from domain extensions. .com, .net, .org, or .co.uk. You can think of it like your last name on the internet.
For example; .org extension is an extension you can choose if you are an organisation, association or foundation.
From here you can type the domain name you want in the domain name section and query it. If it appears empty, you can keep it for yourself.
You can register a domain in your name for a minimum 1 year maximum 10 years. The important point is the e-mail address you will give when registering the domain in your name. It should be an address that is usable and that you will use for a long time. It is important to decide the domain correctly, keep in mind that it cannot be canceled.
I lost my domain? How can I get my old domain back? We encounter these and similar questions. In this regard, you can contact us at any time on our contact page and get free support.
We can think of it as the area where your site will be published. You can think of it as the office, warehouse you rent when you set up a business. Your site is stored on the internet and on a computer called a server.
As in offices or warehouses, there are square meters. But the unit of measurement is megabyte. There is a lot to write about space, but it is enough to know that it must be purchased from a reliable hosting company. It can be paid annually or for several years. If payment is not made, your site may be deleted and you may suffer a loss.
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Companies that design websites usually provide domain and hosting fees free of charge for the first year in their offers.
It usually does not matter for the company that will make your site if the Domain and Hosting service is taken by you. Some companies can say that we provide our own hosting service.
If the name you will use on the internet is available and you have decided on hosting, you are halfway there.
The prepared design will reflect you, your business, your products or services. It is useful to imagine a site where your site guests can easily navigate, find what they are looking for and want to reach you.
You should avoid unnecessary clutter, too many colours and an irregular design. The visitor should know and trust that he is in the right place. I will also give you some tips on this subject in the following articles.
It will make it easier for the web design company you work with to examine the competing companies you work on the same business or other websites regardless of the business and field and determine the one close to your dream. It is also very important that you can agree with the company you work with here. We recommend that you choose a company that can understand and implement what you want.
It is worth noting, do not copy the exact site.You can always stay in the shadow of the site you copy.Identify points that will make your site unique.
Look outside the online world for sources of inspiration.For example, television commercials, billboards and catalogs.Research different types of design, product designs, presentation styles or new product launches.
There are things that are essential to a website. What to expect before working with a web design company. You can review what you need here
Keep your design simple and intuitive. It is very important that your articles, product descriptions or service descriptions are unique. Your in-site navigation menus should be easy and fit for purpose.
The logic should guide your visitor through the site with ease. Since we are talking about the people who will interact with the site we are designing, we are defining UX (User Experience). Of course, this topic is quite long, but you can simply think of it as the experience you give to the visitor during their time on your site. In simple words, they should be able to find what they are looking for and contact you with the idea of a secure site.
Have CTAs on your site. What are they? Call to Action, a call to action. You can think of the simplest call to action as “Add to Cart”.
I can use my own call to action as an example right here.
We carry your dream to your website without tiring you with technical issues.
We listen to you and work together. Call Now!
(If my phone rings, it means it worked. Is it possible to click on the phone link here and know the number of people who have called me? Of course it is possible. Let me add a bit of mystery and continue with my notes on design). By the way, you can write on whatsapp.
Visitors should be able to find what they are looking for within the first 5 seconds of visiting your site and spend time on your site. This is a critical time when your visitor will decide whether he wants to check your page a little more and whether he will come back later. You know very well that your visitors who cannot find what they are looking for and are not convinced may leave your site, we do not want this. The importance of the fast opening time of your site comes into play here. If you have a slow-opening site, you can lose that critical first visit before it starts. You now have your site's appearance, design and a few tips to consider.
No one knows your business better than you. You know your product or service best. If you catch points in your products and services that are not made or mentioned in other companies, you will make a difference. It is not a simple subject, of course, but you need to give your difference on your site and stand out from your competitors. The most basic condition for you to give this on the site is that your product images are of high quality, the description of your product description or services can be done in an original way, with your own sentences.
There is a fine line; you should avoid writing pages and pages about the product or service, but you should provide the necessary information to your visitors.
Tip; You can create a PDF file for a product or service and share it alongside your short article. In this way, the visitor can download the information to his/her computer, read the rest at another time, and save it for detailed information. Don't forget to add your logo and contact information to the PDF document.
The menu is an important point. It must be organized correctly. It should be organized in the right order so that your site visitors can easily navigate your site and find what they are looking for. Avoid unnecessary menu names and group menu contents.
Suppose you have news and illustrated articles from the press. Placing this under a menu called News and categorizing it under the relevant page will work.
You need to decide how many pages your website will have. In a standard website, there are essential pages such as about us, work done, products and contact. According to your needs, these pages can be reproduced as Blog, Gallery, Videos, Our Services, Our References.
You know your needs best. If you decide how many pages your website will consist of and the names of the pages, this will speed up your web designer a little more and your website will be prepared faster.
One way to design a website is to first finish the site in black and white and use the previously prepared color palette where it needs to be highlighted.
A great resource for your colour choice; colour.adobe.com/en/explore
Whether it is an e-Commerce Site, corporate or personal website, the selection of colors to be used in the design of your site should be chosen in accordance with each other in a way that will have a positive impact on your target audience. Unsuccessfully selected colors that are not in harmony with each other may not express you correctly to your visitors and may even cause them to leave the site early.
Your website font; You can make your job easier by choosing a font for the headings on the site and a font compatible with the title font for the texts. Font matching can be called Font Pair. Two compatible paired fonts will be suitable for your site. fonts.google.com
Regardless of personal, corporate website, e-commerce site, the images you will use on your site are an indispensable part and complement of web design. Images to be used correctly and in place will make your website look rich and will ensure that your visitors have a good time while browsing your site.
Image selection is extremely important for the success of your website. You can use your own creativity, get support from artificial intelligence or work with a professional team. The important thing is that your site has visuals that appeal to your target audience and reflect the values of your brand.
Using your own photos is the best option. This represents your brand and products in a more authentic way. If this is not possible, you can choose licensed paid images or use free images. As one of the free image sources, we can recommend www.pexels.com.
Please note that when using licensed images, the licence fee for the image must be paid. Our first preference is always to create your site using images you have taken yourself, if possible. To make your dreams come true, you can take a camera or use your phone to shoot your products on a white background.
You can also generate representative images with artificial intelligence. For example, I used AI generated images on my own Web Design page.
You have a dream website and you have the basic knowledge of how it is made. What you need to do now is to collect this information in a Word document and start price research. When you send the document you have prepared to a design firm, you can get point-shot prices.
Every job has an expert. If you do not want to deal with these processes in your busy business life, it may be the best solution to contact a professional web design company and explain and define your business area.
You can make your website with prices starting from 500$ on average. Since the cost of the site depends on your wishes, the purpose and software of your site, it is possible to encounter costs of 2500$ maybe more. Since the design of each website is unique, you can do your research by getting offers.
I should also mention that you will pay for your website hosting (the space where your site is located) and domain (naming rights; the name of your site) annually. Preferably you can pay in advance for several years. This payment can start from 90$ per year.
Always ask for the offer and details in writing for your web design. It should be clearly stated what will be done in the offer you receive. The launch date and service period of your site should be clearly stated.
If possible, it can be useful to bind this process to a contract. Your invoice and the offers you receive are usually in the form of a contract. Examining the references of the company you receive an offer from will help you evaluate their design capabilities. You can call a few of the previous projects of the company you want to work with and get information about customer satisfaction.
Always inform the company from which you received the website offer in writing what you want and when you want it, and request your response in writing. Discussions such as ‘This is how we talked, this is how you wanted it’ can cause loss of time. Always get the invoice of the work you have done and make a transfer to the company's commercial accounts while making your payment. Do not forget to add to your receipt description what the transfer is for and which invoice it is for.
Ask for your name right to be registered to you. The naming right is extremely important in order not to lose your site. We strongly recommend that your domain name is under your management . Websites can be rebuilt or updated; but if you lose your naming rights, you can go back to the beginning, which is undesirable.
We recommend that your site has an administration panel. This way you can enter new articles, images and new product promotions. Another method is that the company you have agreed with will make your updates. This situation is generally preferable when your own company does not have the workforce you will allocate for this job. By making an annual agreement, you can send the update to be made for them to publish your updates by e-mail.
By making an annual agreement, you can send the update to be made for them to publish your updates by e-mail. If you want to reduce your annual payment costs, my suggestion would be to update your own website. You can request a website with a management panel. Having your website's management panel can affect the cost of web design. If you want to stay ahead of your competitors, you should keep your site up-to-date and original.
It is known that there are more than 1.5 billion websites on the world wide web. Source
In approximate numbers, what happened in the Internet World in 1 second.
1,163 Instagram photos uploaded, 10,027 Tweets sent, 102,660 Google searches made, 3,151,147 E-mails sent, 95,819 YouTube videos viewed.
Of course, you may not be able to design like professionals. In addition to your website, having Instagram, Facebook, Youtube accounts and having content will strengthen your hand. Don't forget to ask for this support when getting an offer for your website.
Here are a few links you can use to design posts for your social media.
A question from a visitor: Does it make sense to buy a website that has already been built? Is it advantageous to buy a website that has already been built and has gained a place on the internet with its name?
I can say that there are some advantages and disadvantages. First of all, buying a website that has been done before, without analyzing it, without fully examining its history and without cost evaluation, can make you happy as well as upset you.
Advantages;
What to be careful about;
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