The Importance of Good Website Design

Website design consists of various factors and all the improvements that are needed by the business. This is necessary so that there is a better flow of traffic. In addition, it is important that the content including the audio, the text, the image, the links, the video, are well optimized. This will make your visitors you feel comfortable while browsing your website and will visit more often. Following are some of the recommended areas to pay attention to.

Speed

Your website should load as fast as you can otherwise your visitors will move on to the next site. This section is of vital importance for search engine optimization. There is compelling evidence that 40% of internet users leave a website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. Loading speed can be accomplished by ensuring that your images are optimized and that you do not use a lot of images. It is also important to get a hosting service that include site accelerators and cache systems.

Simplicity

Many developers make the mistake of loading the page with many menus, sub-menus, search boxes, tag clouds, social media buttons everywhere. A good website designer concentrates in functionality and strong content. A good combination of optimized images along with strong content will attract more users.

Navigation

The content of a website must be organized in a logical and simple manner. All pages and sections must be relevant, have a specific function and provide value. Ensure that the pages do not contain any broken links. All your links must have a destination that is relevant to your statement.

Colors

Choose that are in line with your presentation and your products. Select color combinations that offer good contrast so that each statement is easy to distinguish and read. Do not use many colors. Choose clear backgrounds and dark letters, avoiding black backgrounds or with very strong colors.

Typography

When creating your content use fonts with an appropriate size keeping in mind your target audience. Keep in mind that using innovative fonts might end up being replaced by a browser’s default font if it is not available. Your font of choice should match your intended brand. Be consistent in the use of the same typography for the entire website.

Images and animations

The use of animated images, sliders, and video clips might not provide positive results. Visitors will hardly spend any time viewing your slides, or video clips. They are more interested in your website content that in your pretty pictures. Always use professional images on your website. The use of simple but professional images will greatly improve your content and the quality to your website.

Consistency

Be consistent in the design of a website. Ensure the proper flow of your content from one page to the next. Improper flow from one page to another give a negative impression. The same fonts, colors, and typography should flow through your website.

Cost of Building a New Website

Website Design Cost

When it comes to setting up the price of a new website, there are several components that need to be taken into consideration. Aside from the overhead, we will look at some of these components and how they affect the cost of building a new website. Please note that every website design company have their own way of estimating cost and the process outlined here might be different from other design companies.

Website Type

The first component that we look at is the website type. A website type may fall into one or more categories. Following are some of the categories that we use to classify a website:

• Brochure type website
• e-Commerce website
• Educational website
• Information website
• Landing Page
• Personal website
• Social Media website
• Content Management Systems (CMS)

A short explanation of these types of websites can be found in our website at sbnai.net. Each website type has its own features, advantages and disadvantages. In addition, each website type may be further classified. For example, a client might want to have an e-Commerce website but would also like to have a brochure website. The final type of website is usually determined after interviewing the client.

Theme

The look and feel of a website are important but not as important as functionality. Flashy websites tend to be slow to load and not easy to maintain. It is important to pick a theme based on the website content and functionality rather than how pretty it should be. The cost of the theme will depend on whether is built from scratch or customized from a template.

Website Content

Another component that we look at is the content of the website. This in itself falls into a one of several areas such customer supplied content, designer developed, or third party provided. The cost of developing content can be high depending on the approach. It is highly recommended that the client provide the content since that he/she want to disseminate.

When providing content to a website developer it is very important to provide original content (as opposed to duplicate information from another site). It is also very important to ensure that the content is accurate and it includes good links to/from reputable sites. Good, original, and accurate content is the first step towards good search engine optimization (SEO).

The website content should also include a good number of images with proper descriptions. Loading too many images on a website is not recommended due to performance issues. Images with no descriptions server no purpose on a website.

Features

Features such as online forms, blogs, data capture, animation, etc. will add to the cost of building a website. Some features are necessary, while other are nice to have. Work with your website designer to determine what features are necessary. Your website designer should be able to provide a good list of features based on past experience.

Products / Services

If building an e-Commerce site most likely there will be a need to have a shopping cart, an online catalog with products, and the ability to pay online. Each product and/or services require a description, a price, shipping information, and attributes such as size, color, material, etc. The more products and or services, the higher the cost of building your website. Some clients are willing to take on loading their own products which will help in maintaining the cost of building a website low.

Website Publishing

Before a website can be published, it needs to be reviewed and approved by the client. The review process can be an extensive one with change requests and communications back and forth. That review can also add to the cost of building the website. It is important to have good and clear communication with the website designer from the beginning of the process. Please note that involving a third party after the website design is approved will greatly affect the final cost of building a website.

As explained at the beginning of this article, every website design company might have their own process, but for the most the above components hold true for every design company. Website Hosting, Domain Registration, and Miscellaneous costs are not included in this article.

For more information call our designers at 951-777-5040, email us at info@sbnai.net or visit our site at https://sbnai.net

Social Media Postings

It is with great pleasure that SBNAI Web Design Services announces the creation of our Social Media management division. Over the last 11 years we have been providing Web Design and Hosting services to small businesses, non-profits, and individuals. We have had great success due to our high quality products, features, customer service, and low cost.

With the addition of a Social Media Management group we will be able to further assist our clients with the digital marketing and social media campaigns. For more information visit Kassy's Social Media & Photography site at http://kassys-social-media-photography.business.site.

SBNAI Web Design Services is a division of Small Business Network Administrators International providing eCommerce and Business sites to Small Businesses across the world. For more information visit our site at https://sbnai.net or for hosting services, domain registration, and email services visit us at https://sbnai.com.

SBNAI Web Design Services
Riverside, California. USA
https://sbnai.net
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Competition or Opportunity?

One of the most difficult obstacles faced by small businesses is competition. We would like to believe that we are the best at what we do or sell the best products and because of that; we push forward to present our products or services. We follow good business practices, advertise, join business groups, and try everything under the sun to let everyone know how good our products and services are. However, when we do not get the customers we often ask ourselves, what are we doing wrong? Most of the time we will blame it on the competition.

Have you ever consider taking advantage of the competition? All of us have something that we can offer that the competition does not offer; most often refer to that as “a niche”. In reality, a niche could be a combination of products and services not offered “as such” by the competition. In order to find out what it is you will have to study your competition, your own business, and the needs of your clients. More often than not, that study will reveal where your weaknesses are giving you an opportunity to improve those areas.

At SBNAI (Small Business Network Administrators International), we have learned to look at the competition as an opportunity to improve our business. Being a small organization gives us the advantage to adjust our business model quickly. Often we “partner” with the competition to provide a good combination of products and services to our clients. That partnership often results in a win-win situation to our clients and us.

Our company specializes in Web Design, Hosting, Mobile Apps Development, and Domain Registration. We consider other web designers as partners because we can provide them a solid hosting environment and domain registration services without the extra expense associated with hosting services. Other web design related services that we provide are graphics design, content development, and printing services. All of these extras are provided by our partners and makes us a stronger contender. These services along with our unmatched personalized customer service and low cost products puts us on top of the competition.

For more information visit us at https://sbnai.com or write to info@sbnai.com.

Transfer Domain Certificates

Domain transfer certificates now available from Small Business Network Administrators International

When we officially announced the release of the domain ownership certificates earlier this month, we mentioned that domain transfer certificates would soon become available too.

And, after two weeks of detailed tests, we are thrilled to announce that, starting today, you will receive such a certificate every time a domain name of yours has been successfully transferred.

What are the new domain transfer certificates all about?

The domain transfer certificates will look similar to the domain ownership certificates.

They will include the name of the respective domain owner, the name of the store from which the given transfer has been purchased, as well as a small notice – in case the newly transferred domain is not WHOIS-protected.

The certificates will clearly indicate that the domain transfer in question has been carried out successfully.

They will also inform the domain owner of the respective registration and expiration dates.

Why were the domain transfer certificates not available from the beginning?

The issuance of domain transfer certificates has proven to be quite challenging due to the nature of the domain transfer process itself.

We’ve had to rethink and rework parts of our system in order to more accurately reflect the different registry-specific particularities.

Our QA team has been working quite hard these past two weeks in order to eliminate all discovered issues and bugs.

However, we have identified potential problems with the following ccTLDs: .BE, .JP, .CN, .CH, .SE, .US. For this reason, support for them will be added later down the road.

Future plans for the domain ownership certificates

As we mentioned in our previous post, we are working on a complete redesign of the Hepsia Control Panel.

Plus, we intend to make the most current domain ownership certificates directly accessible from within the Control Panel itself. This way, you will be able to download them at any moment whatsoever.

For more information visit our store at https://sbnai.com

Free Domain Search

You can now perform a free domain search from within this blog. Please feel out the form below to perform your free domain search. At SBNAI we offer all domain at the best prices.

Professional Web Design

Small Businesses tend to rely on professional web designers to build their website. I believe that it is important to understand that adding content to a template does not constitute a professional web designer. In fact, in the web design profession a web designer is the one that comes up with the “graphical concept” and the web developer is the one that makes it happen. It is then important to ask the right questions to ensure that you are getting a true professional.

When it comes to website development there are several pieces that need to fall in place in order to create an effective website. For example, most web design services now offer very low cost web design. Now that statement in itself is reason enough to do your homework. Some web design agencies are now hiring overseas help in order to maintain a low overhead. While there is nothing wrong with outsourcing there might be when it comes to supporting a newly created site. Any experienced web developer will tell you that most sites need to be adjusted for content and functionality after they have been published. If your developer is from oversees, chances are that it is going to take longer for any adjustments to be made. Also, there will be no client/developer contact since the developer is not local.

When considering a creating or revamping a website ensure that you get a true professional web designer. The best web designer is the one that is local, understand your business, and can work with you on an affordable site. Do your homework before entering into a web design agreement. Every day a lot of so called Web Designers pop up all over, but when it comes down to it, these are just content fillers who cannot customize nor add functionality to your sites.

At Small Business Network Administrators International (SBNAI) not only do we understand your business, we’ll help you establish a solid presence in Word Wide Web. We’ll design an affordable site that will attract users from all over the world. At SBNAI we have Web Designers, Web Developers, and SEO professionals that understand the needs of small businesses and will guide you through the entire process.

We are also a full featured Web Hosting Organization, we use our own hosting services, and with 6 Data Centers across the world we guarantee the best possible hosting services. All of our hosting accounts include unlimited space, a minimum of 100 email accounts, nightly backup services, 24/7 support, free shared SSL Certificate and lots more. You can try our hosting services for 30 days at no cost and no credit card required. Visit us at https://sbnai.com for more information.

Small Business Network Administrators International

Riverside, California. USA

info@sbnai.com

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Web Design

Web Design

Speaking in general terms, web design is a fairly simple process. Web Designer gets together with client and through a series of questions determines the client’s requirements for a good web design. The web designer then gets to work and produces a graphical interpretation of the website. This is called the web design. The development part is where a web designer of software developer generates code that adds functionality to the graphics created by the web designer.

At some point the web design in going to be completed and presented to the client for review and approval. Once approved the web design organization proceeds to publish the new website to the World Wide Web where it can be accessed by practically the entire world.

Publishing a website is more than just moving the files to a web server. In should also include addition of a sitemap, & robots.txt file. Once loaded onto the web server then the site should be registered with all major search engines and local business directories. Linking the site to social media will help provide some visibility to the website.

Showing up on a search result page is not guaranteed but chances of the being found are much greater when these steps are followed. Google recently changed their search algorithm in such a way that “user experience” will be looked at before keyword or Meta keywords. For a new site is nearly impossible to show up on the first page based on “user experience alone”. Therefore a lot of work needs to be done in order to ensure a spot on the first few pages of a search. That is where Small Business Network Administrators, your Riverside Web Designer, makes a difference. Even though no one can guarantee a spot on the first page of a google search, we will give you the tools that you need to ensure proper positioning.

For more information visit our site at https://sbnai.net or https://sbnai.com. Our professional web designers will be happy to spend time with you explaining the details of web searches and what you can do to increase your chances of a good web presence.


Free SSL Certificates

We've enabled free, Let's Encrypt-based SSL certificates in the Control Panel.

Introduced in 2016, Let's Encrypt represents a free open certificate authority (CA), which provides website owners with digital certificates for enabling HTTPS (SSL/TLS).
It was launched by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a public-benefit organization sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Cisco Systems, with the aim of making HTTPS encryption both affordable and user-friendly.
Their main goal is to create a more secure, privacy-driven web.
Let's Encrypt certificates are:

• free to use: each domain name owner can obtain a trusted certificate at absolutely no cost;
• automatic: the certificate setup and renewal procedures are fully automated; no human intervention is needed;
• simple to use: there are neither payments to make, nor validation emails to respond to;
• secure: Let's Encrypt serves as a platform for implementing the latest security practices;
• fully transparent: all issued certificates are publicly available for anyone to view;
• open: the issuance and renewal protocol is published as an open standard that can be adopted;
• 'self-regulated': Let's Encrypt is a joint community effort, beyond the control of any organization;

What are the differences between regular and Let's Encrypt SSLs?

Let's Encrypt offers you a free and automated way of obtaining SSL certificates for your sites, so you may ask yourself: "Why would I ever go with a regular SSL certificate?".
Just like regular SSL certificates, Let's Encrypt certificates offer basic SSL encryption, i.e. they give site visitors assurance that they are exchanging information with the domain that is visible in the address bar and that their personal data (login details, credit card information, etc.) cannot be eavesdropped.
Also, Let's Encrypt certificates are trusted by all major browsers.
If a site is using a Let's Encrypt SSL, you will see "https://" at the beginning of the URL in your browser's address bar, along with a green padlock.
So, what Let's Encrypt certificates offer is secure communication most site visitors will feel comfortable with.
However, as a business entity you may also need a certain security guarantee against online abuses and this is where commercial SSLs kick in.
Read further below to learn more about the differences between a Let's Encrypt certificate and a regular SSL:

• Warranty: Let's Encrypt certificates do not include a warranty against misuse or mis-issuance, whereas regular SSLs do. While this may not be a problem for smaller websites, for larger organizations most probably will.
• Wildcard Certificates: Let's Encrypt does not offer wildcard or multi-domain certificates, whereas traditional CAs usually do.
• Validity Period: Let's Encrypt certificates are only valid for 90 days and must be renewed before they expire. Most regular SSL certificates are valid for at least one year. HTTPS site owners can also choose a longer validity period (3, 5, etc. years). On our platform, Let's Encrypt certificates are renewed automatically, so you won't have to worry about that.
• Support: Let's Encrypt does not offer assistance with creating or installing SSL certificates. Only community help is available.This can be an issue for organizations that need to quickly equip their business sites with an SSL. However, this could be easily curbed with a quick re-generation and re-installation of the problematic Let's Encrypt SSL.

A Let's Encrypt certificate or a commercial SSL – the final verdict

Both Let's Encrypt and commercial SSLs will do the encryption job that is expected of them in order to protect your sites against interception and eavesdropping.
So, your choice will solely be determined by the type of site you manage, which in fact defines your security requirements.
If you own a non-commercial site, a blog or a photo gallery, or just need a quickly configurable, simple and free SSL certificate that you can obtain with minimum effort, then Let's Encrypt is the way to go.
If you run an e-store or an enterprise site, then you will need to invest in a paid, warranty-equipped SSL certificate issued by an established CA.
Due to Google's recently voiced intent to give HTTPS sites higher search rankings and the subsequent rise of authorized SSL resellers, the prices for commercial SSLs have been going down steadily.
Today, every e-commerce website owner can obtain an affordable commercial SSL certificate from a reputable authority.
We've already lowered the prices for both regular and wildcard certificates and are doing our best to make sure you get the best security insurance on the web.

For more information visit our site at http://sbnai.com or http://sbnai.net