When starting out a web site there is always a common question of “Does my web design have to look good?” Obviously there is no straight forward answer for that. There are many factors that would go into creating a web site and the content that it is going to have. As you can see, web sites like craigslist.org has the worst web design ever. Sorry! But your web design is crap. Also google has a bad web design. Yahoo.com Vs. Google.com, which looks better? Yahoo.com is leading with its design and user interface. The graphics and logo is way more superior compared to google’s. Actually I didn’t mean to target the logo because both of them have a good trademark. But so what if a web site has a crappy design? Is that all we need?
Answer is NO. If that were the case, Anyone can hire a professional designer and make a million dollar logo and beat every web site out there. People as in your traffic, look for more than the design. They also look for the contents. Craigslist.org is the best example for this type. Yes it looks like crap and looks like something out of a 1990s web site. I don’t even see any graphics. But there the web site gets millions of views a day if not more. The idea behind craig, was to create a network where people can do the basic thing. Sell your item, post an ad and buy from the seller. Very simple isn’t it? Of course. When somebody looks for information on the internet since this is the internet is mostly an information database. If you can give what the traffic what they want in the most least efficient way, you save money on hosting AND they love your web site because of its user interface. Google.com lured me in when I had 56k back in well….long long time ago. 56k as you know is so slow that it loads web sites so long. Back then load times were so important because people in this generation are always in a rush. So google.com was simple but got the job done and in today’s world that is all what we need.
So the question arises. . .When should we do a nice fancy design? EASY! Examples of web sites would be sites that have business. Landing pages are a MUST and web pages with information about a business. Those kind of web sites are trying to promote a product they are selling or trying to promote and give information about their corporation or small business. Most of these type of web sits are going to be direct linked through a business card. That is not always the case but if you are going to pass out business cards please have a good looking web site. This will increase your creditability and hold your content together.
My main point here is, content will always be key but there is a certain ratio where it should balance out. I would have to say that
