Your company’s homepage is its face to the world.

If you want to grow your business, promote your company or simply communicate with customers, it’s vital to have a professional web site.

Consumers are increasingly using the Internet to find out about products, services and businesses. Estimates are that there is over one billion internet users world wide. Businesses with a professional web site are likely to reach new customers and turn potential “hits” into real sales.

Homepages are said to be amongst the most valuable real estate in the world. Each year, companies and individuals funnel millions of dollars through a space that’s not even a square foot in size.

A homepage’s impact on a company’s bottom line is far greater than simple measures of e-commerce revenues: The homepage is your company’s face to the world.

Increasingly, potential customers will look at your company’s online presence before doing business with you — regardless of whether they plan to close the actual sale online.

Design Priorities:

• Communicate clearly so that users understand you. Users allocate minimal time to initial website visits, so you must quickly convince them that the site’s worthwhile.
• Provide the information users want. Users must be able to easily determine whether your services meet their needs and why they should do business with you.
• Offer simple, consistent page design, clear navigation, and an information architecture that puts things where users expect to find them.
• Content rules. Cut to the chase, more information less hype. People don’t buy things they don’t understand. Writing for the Web is still undervalued, and most sites spend too few resources refining the information they offer to users.
• Essential files for web site control, includes a customised robots.txt file and .htaccess file

Get these right, and you’ll enhance your site’s credibility, ease a user’s way through the site, and thus do far more for the site’s business value than any JavaScript trick.

Here at timeto.net we take care of all your web site needs. To create and maintain a web site you need:

• A domain name e.g. www.company-name.com
• A web host, i.e.the computer that holds and serves your web pages 24/7.
• The content of your pages. The text and images, also the layout or “look & feel”.
• The coding of the pages. My specialty, fast loading and search engine friendly.
• Ongoing advertising and updating of your site. Yes you can easily update yourself.

The Bottom Line

We can deliver a complete web site, search engine indexed, for under $AU1,000, depending on how much help you need with the content and artwork.