100 things to get your head round when you are building a website

Are you thinking about building your own website?

Here are 100 key elements to remember when building a website for your small business.

1. Tone

2. Mobile responsiveness

3. Typography

4. Header design

5. Header behaviour

6. Footer design

7. Call to action choice

8. Call to action position

9. Appealing to your ideal client

10. Customer journey

11. Domain name

12. Web hosting

13. Maintenance

14. Content strategy

15. Choice of imagery don't zone out yet I've only just got started ...
    

16. Optimisation of images

17. Consistency with branding

18. Meta titles

19. Meta descriptions

20. Meta tags

21. Search Engine Optimisation

22. User experience (UX)

23. Site structure

24. Navigation menu

25. Loading speed

26. Carbon footprint of site

27. Security

28. Backup strategy

29. Backup restoration

30. SSL certificate are you bored yet?
    

31. Privacy policy

32. T&Cs

33. Contact form

34. Autoresponder for contact form

35. Accessibility

36. Content management systems

37. Cross-browser compatibility

38. Social media integration

39. Analytics

40. Scalability

41. 404 page

42. 301 Redirects

43. Favicon

44. Robots.txt

45. Submission to search engines

46. Hiding pages from search engines

47. XML Sitemap

48. GDPR

49. Cookies policy

50. Cookie popup yes, I'm still going ...
    

51. Newsletter signup

52. Embedding Calendly

53. Blog setup

54. Blog post design

55. Blog post categories

56. Share buttons

57. Like buttons

58. Comments settings

59. Testimonials

60. Galleries

61. Embedded Google map

62. Downloadable files

63. Live chat

64. Welcome screen for mobile wakey, wakey ...
    

65. Logo connected to homepage

66. Parallax scrolling

67. Animated effects

68. Related posts

69. Embedded videos

70. Music

71. YouTube embeds

72. Functionality

73. Information hierarchy

74. Use of white space

75. Text layout nearly there ...
    

76. Colour scheme

77. Copywriting

78. Proof reading

79. Professional photography commissioning

80. Clean layout

81. Hyperlinks

82. Internal links

83. Keywords

84. Alt tags

85. Captions

86. Viewports

87. Back to top button

88. Quick action bar

89. H1 tags

90. Button design

91. Copyright information

92. FAQs

93. Lightboxes

94. Popups

95. Landing pages last few ...
    

96. URLs

97. Lead magnets

98. Pricing tables

99. Infographics

100. . Professional appearance

Phew!

In fact, there are a lot more than 100, but you take my point.

Unless you are willing to learn how to do all these things, don't waste your time and patience trying to build your own website, just book a chat with me.