Comments on: What makes a great website?

By: Counselling Psychologists & Therapists Sydney

Counselling Psychologists & Therapists Sydney — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:20:42 +0000

yep wouldn’t have thought of checking for colour blindness! nice attention to detail!

By: Ziller

Ziller — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:20:51 +0000

Hey Cheb, unless I missed it, you have missed on important thing….. Speed.

Doesn’t matter if the website has all the features you mention above, if it aint fast loading people wont want anything to do with it.

By: Ray Ducasse

Ray Ducasse — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:34:52 +0000

I want to get your opinion on my website. it’s a nightlife social network. i came to your site & i like the look & everything. just wondering what you think.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:01:16 +0000

Well written article, and it’s stuff I wish a lot of clients understood. Then again, that’s why they need designers and such- right?

By: Mark Briody - Website Design

Mark Briody - Website Design — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:40:20 +0000

What makes a website great? Without a doubt one of the incredible attributes to a great and profitable is the site copy.

It starts with an incredibly compelling and captivating heading. Without a heading that captivated the reader and includes the number one benefit up front you run the inevitable risk of them hitting the back button. Statistics now prove that your average site visitor will hit the back button and leave your site forever within 4-9 seconds unless you give them a really good reason to stay.

Once you have the attention of your website reader you would now gain their further interest with a compelling message in a sub heading which will lead them to read your websites content.

The content should also be very interesting and not linger on. Get to the point and offer a solution. Remember figures prove that more than 92.6% of people using the internet are searching for a solution to a problem so the faster you give them their solution your website offers the faster you get their attention.

I’m also a huge fan of strong websites on the eyes of the search engines. One way to strengthen your website is by utilising a contextual link building service as it builds strong one way links to your website and lets face it, what do the search engines like most? Back links.

By: Web Design Perth

Web Design Perth — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:07:48 +0000

I totally agree with Paris – I was recently presented with quite a well known advertising agency’s idea of a site template for a shared client. There was not one basic rule followed of what makes a great web design. Took some doing but I managed to convince the client to go a more tried and trusted route in the end. Great article Cheb!

By: Masterboy

Masterboy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:16:37 +0000

Hello webmaster, very nice site here, great work!
TomasKell

Masterboy

By: Cheb

Cheb — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:18:38 +0000

Thanks Paris, great insight! Thanks for the comment & nice website..

By: paris

paris — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:22:31 +0000

excelent article! unforunatly thought most graphics designers cant understand the “Things are where the user expects them to be” the think that eevry new website shoul be diferent to be better, but in terms of usability thats false! if you dont have the main menu of a website where users expect it to be then they will simply leave.

By: Cheb

Cheb — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:07:40 +0000

Hey guys, thank you all for your lovely comments!

@David & Matthew – Thank you!
@Marty – *Laughs!* 1 million dollars ayh? That would be a heck of an amount of new posts!
@Kelli – Thank you! More of these types of articles on the way. Stay tuned!
@Kelly – last but not least, Welcome Kelly – appreciate the feedback. Thanks for signing up to RSS; lots more coming soon! PS: Great website!

Thank you all. Cheb.