You have many choices when you start building a website, and you can make good choices or not so good ones. You do have to pay particular attention to design elements if the site will be for business activities. Here are several site design characteristics you will want to know about before you get too far along.
Even though properly spelled words is not a part of design, it is related in a roundabout way. You'd be surprised how many webmasters don't care to do this, and end up having embarrassing typos right on their homepage! You also realize that preventing this is extremely easy and fast if you use MS Word or OpenOffice. This is of course entirely up to you, but eventually it will come back to haunt you. We will stop preaching about this, but it is something we wanted to mention.
We know that privacy policy pages as well as disclaimers and others are not design elements, but people do check for them and actually read them, too. The way things are anymore on the net, you really have to make sure you are protected concerning your sites. Some visitors may not do business with you or give you their contact information if you do not have a privacy policy and other notices. If anything unusual happens and having had them saves you in court, then it will be totally worth the hassle.
Using Alternative Domains: to make sure that your brand is as protected and you are as easy to find as possible, register a bunch of different domain names as well as multiple versions and a bunch of different extensions. This step is to only prevent others from taking advantage of the free domain names and registering them. While it isn't exactly a part of your site design this is an important step to make sure you don't lose any valuable readers. You can simply re-direct all your domain names to your main domain name, which is often done by big companies to protect their brand and increase awareness of their site. For example, in addition to registering a .com, you can register .net and .org as well so that you can own all three of the most popular domain extensions. This will help you protect yourself against search engine competition from those other domains. The main thing to remember when designing your site is that people who visit will be reacting to the entire site, but this is composed of lots of smaller parts, so you should take the time to look at everything you're doing and see if it can be improved or made more user-friendly.
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