Are you thinking about building your own website?
Here are 100 key elements to remember when building a website for your small business.
Tone
Mobile responsiveness
Typography
Header design
Header behaviour
Footer design
Call to action position
Customer journey
Web hosting
Maintenance
Content strategy
Choice of imagery don't zone out yet I've only just got started ...
Optimisation of images
Consistency with branding
Meta titles
Meta descriptions
Meta tags
Search Engine Optimisation
User experience (UX)
Site structure
Navigation menu
Loading speed
Carbon footprint of site
Security
Backup strategy
Backup restoration
SSL certificate are you bored yet?
Privacy policy
T&Cs
Contact form
Accessibility
Content management systems
Cross-browser compatibility
Social media integration
Analytics
Scalability
404 page
301 Redirects
Favicon
Robots.txt
Submission to search engines
Hiding pages from search engines
XML Sitemap
GDPR
Cookies policy
Cookie popup yes, I'm still going ...
Newsletter signup
Blog setup
Blog post design
Blog post categories
Share buttons
Like buttons
Comments settings
Testimonials
Galleries
Embedded Google map
Downloadable files
Welcome screen for mobile wakey, wakey ...
Logo connected to homepage
Parallax scrolling
Animated effects
Related posts
Embedded videos
Music
YouTube embeds
Functionality
Information hierarchy
Use of white space
Text layout nearly there ...
Colour scheme
Proof reading
Professional photography commissioning
Clean layout
Hyperlinks
Internal links
Keywords
Captions
Viewports
Back to top button
Quick action bar
H1 tags
Button design
Copyright information
FAQs
Lightboxes
Popups
Landing pages last few ...
URLs
Lead magnets
Pricing tables
Infographics
. 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.