A Recipe for a Website Interface

For most companies, an engaging website interface is a crucial aspect of their business image.  Getting the right design is often the most difficult task.

The first step with designing any website is having a clear objective.  It is imperative that you can outline the vision and expectations of your website. For instance, your purpose may be one or more of the following:
 

• Develop company/brand awareness
• Generate leads from prospective customers
• Display product catalogue
• Sell products or service
• Promote various services
• Promote a particular range or brand
• Offer various workflows such as Find a Store, Dealer Portal, Event Registration
• Build a community of visitors
• Plus many more...

Once the purpose has been defined, there are many factors that need consideration in order to develop a suitable interface:

• Capturing the company vision
• Brand consistency
• Choosing the right colours, theme and styling
• Content layout & navigation
• Information hierarchy and organisation 
• Apply effective use of animation
• Search engine visibility
• Designing within the limits of web technology
• Cross browser support
• Conformance to industry standards
• Ensuring fast page loading
• Content managed component design
• Web page structure and sitemap
• Content security
• Plus many others...

Many websites do not achieve their potential because the interface design does not reflect the purpose. For instance, a cool animated intro to your lead-generation website may hinder search engines from caching your content or if it takes too long to download the user may become disinterested and move on. Alternatively, such an animation may be critical to the learning process of the company and its products and services.

 

You Design or We Design or a Team Effort

eSITE.CONNECT employ a highly experienced creative team of web designers that can either produce an outstanding design for your company from scratch or work closely with your graphic designer to develop an interface that meets your requirements using their creative knowledge of your business image.

Once your interface mocks have been approved, our production and design team will translate the design into HTML and implement your Content Management website.


 

We Take the Plumbing Off Your Hands

The Live eCommerce Content Management System takes the legwork out of managing your website design and content. You don't need HTML experience and you will be an expert after attending our comprehensive training course. 

One of the most progressive features is the way that web pages are constructed. Once the page template is chosen, web content is managed via the content areas embedded in the page and embedding of content objects such as images, flash, PDFs and other digital assets. There are many types of content areas to choose from and each come with visual management tools that allow for easy management of content.

For technically savvy designers, we offer training that enables you to take full control of your Content Managed websites.  We will show you how to create and modify web page templates, deploy or modify styles and switch content formats. Please note that extensive experience with HTML and CSS is a prerequisite.

 

Get Creative With Your Content

As described in the previous section, the Live eCommerce Content Management System enables you to manage the content in your webpages via content areas.  Content can range from formatted text to images, flash files, movies, PDF files and any other digital assets you load into your content libraries. 

Content libraries offer a central place to upload and manage content assets. 

There are many different types of content areas and layout formats to choose from.  Better still, you can reposition content areas on your webpage by simply clicking and dragging the content area between web area containers.  Some of the most popular content areas are:

• Standard Content area
• News area
• Image Gallery area
• Catalogue area
• Product area
• Web Enquiry Form area
• Plus many more...

Content areas and embeddable content assets give you an unprecedented level of flexibility so that you can unleash your creativity quickly and effectively.


 

Well... Doesn't That Look Flash!

The Live eCommerce Content Management System supports embeddable flash objects. This means that you can develop, upload and deploy flash animations into your website within seconds.  There are no limits to the creative freedom that can be explored through flash animated objects embedded into your content managed website.

 

 The Live eCommerce Content Management System makes it possible to deploy creative content fast and efficiently.  Taking the legwork out of managing content significantly frees up time and allows graphic designers to keep on top of online promotion and marketing initiatives.

 

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