The Visitor And The Web Master
A website is a short-term investment for a long-term goal. Hence the web design, web site content writing, keywords, navigability, user-friendliness, product and company information, newsletters, contact information, etc must be equally visible to the visitor. Hence, the web design and navigability should reflect the true hallmarks of a company and must behave like a mirror. These must be the starting points of a website. Infact the user webmaster must consider them before starting the website.
The main questions that a best web designer considers before the commencement of a website are:
1. How does this benefit the visitor?
He must retrospect in advance if the idea in his mind is parallel with the visitors needs. Am I offering, what the visitor is looking for? Will it be able to hook the visitor to the website and not drift him away? Have I considered all the needs of the visitor? Thus, the designer’s job is to think off all this in advance.
2. How does benefit the organisation or me?
A designer must think in advance abut the benefits the organisation is going to get through the website. He must then proceed with the most beneficial idea.
Conflicts in a Web Designer’s Mind
- The organization is trying to achieve something by bringing visitors to their website.
- The visitors to a website are trying to accomplish something by logging on to the organization’s website.
The perfect website satisfies the desires of both the parties: user gets what they are looking for; website owner gets what they want. This will ensure that both the parties are happy. However, if the needs of the customers