The Professional Web Design Directory has created a page for website designers containing helpful advice on all sorts of web design topics. These topics can help web designers improve the performance of their site, improve their SEO, gain a better understanding of how to move higher up in search engines such as Google, and has suggestions, helping to capture the interest of visitors.
Help improve the performance of my website
It’s very important that your website is fast by loading quickly on the internet with any web browser. Many websites built, that do not comply to these standards gain a very high bounce rate with visitors clicking off straight away and losing out on a large amount of potential clients or customers. There are two ways to prevent this from happening. The first method is to not include many images or media such as sound or video streaming. However this is not always possible and not to do so can make websites seem very bland and uninteresting. There is a way to have images and still have a quick running website, involving a simple text document called Gzip, which anybody can easily create.
To find out what is Gzip, how Gzip works, and how to use Gzip easily and effectively, visit Gzip help
Help improve my SEO
To improve SEO on, a website a designer must have a good understanding of SEO before implementing any techniques. By not fully understanding SEO, misunderstandings can so easily happen and badly used techniques can actually damage a sites SEO.
The Professional design directory has provided a page that allows designers to understand the difference between a basic understanding of SEO and the more advanced techniques, not only providing information on how to apply SEO to each part of the site but also telling developers what parts of SEO are most important.
Moving up in Google
Link juice or backlinks are said to count for 75% therefore we have created an article on how to gain more links back to your site. Plus most websites are missing a trick with some links pointing to their domain with the prefix and some without. This link will send you to an article that will show you how to combine your domains using a 301 redirect to point all links to a single domain.
On occasion websites can drop in Google rankings despite developers best efforts. We have provided a troubleshooting guide with possible reasons why this has happened and how to fix these problems.
Capturing the visitors interest
If a site does not look professional then customers will not have much faith in their services and is unlikely to use that company. There also many great developers who have not fully grasped the skills of a designer, this article explains how to design a great looking website, making it appear professional cutting out many common mistakes and making a website look complete!
