Web design Birmingham

Web design Birmingham

Birmingham is a great place to live and work. Many businesses are thriving in the area thanks to lots of investment and development.

If you live in the Birmingham area and have a business and are thinking having a website designed for your company then you need think about a few important factors. Do you have a domain name? Do you need hosting? What is your budget? Do you need an ecommerce website with a shopping trolley to sell products? Will you need to update your site yourself in the future? Once you have answered these questions you can then go about finding a good company that offer all of these services.

Finding a competent company that has a portfolio of work is very helpful. You can look through their portfolio and see some of the websites they have designed for previous customers. The eCommerce design is very important to the success of any web site. You want to be sure that your website is designed right. One of the first things you notice about a website is whether it is pleasant to the eye. Bright flashing coloured text is very off putting as is a flash intro. A very important key is to make sure your site loads quickly. You will loose a great deal of customers if your pages take over 5 seconds to load.

It is a lot easier if you can find a company that can do everything for you. A company that can sell you the domain name as well as the hosting and offer search optimization solutions. Some hosting companies also offer web design which would make the whole experience a lot easier. Dealing with the same people for your domain name, hosting, email, web design makes the whole process a lot easier. For one you only need one contact telephone number. A company with good customer support is a must. Not all companies offer this and this and it can be very frustrating. You want to know that if you have any trouble you can just call for customer support or technical support.

Another aspect of having a website on the internet is whether it is SEO friendly. SEO stands for Search Engine Opitmisation which in general terms means a website is optimised so as to get the bests results in Google as in the front page. Most people who search on the internet only ever look at the first and second page, unless they are looking for a particular site. So if you have a great site but it is listed 100 then you will not get many visitors. Having your site come up first on Google takes a lot of hard work and time, the work can be done yourself with a bit of web knowledge but generally it is better to pay a company to do the work for you. You want a company that has a good place in the search engines ie on the front page. There are not many competent web design companies in Birmingham that offer this so it is worth looking further a field.

Carolyn Clayton is the webmaster for Discount Domains LTD a leading UK Domain Name registration, Web Hosting and Website Design and SEO Company.

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