How frustrating is it when you get a visitor to click on an ad, follow the conversion path through the site, and just when it's time to sign up they bail on you while filling out the form. Put yourself in their shoes, would you fill out all the fields in your form and go through the entire process?  You should constantly look at ways to reduce information that’s not required, make the process user-friendly, etc.

The latest information shows a change in what users like when it comes to filling out information.  The old way was to minimize the number of clicks required by placing all the fields together on a single page.

There are several steps to a website redesign but here are four very practical and important steps that you don’t want to forget.  If your website design company doesn’t talk about these four steps you need to find a new company.  Please contact us for a PDF of our full website design and development process.

Here are the four important steps that every website redesign should go through:

Earlier this year Forrester published a report after a 12-year study of 1500 websites regarding their user experience design.  Only 3% of the 1500 sites received a passing score.  That’s just 45 sites out of 1500 over 12 years.

The author of the report said websites are falling into the same old trap that they did ten years ago.  They just aren’t thinking about usability.  Things like making the fonts easy to read, customer task flow problems and thinking more about the creative design than the customer using the site. 

By themselves these problems may seem insignificant.  However, if a site is done right

All programming languages have their benefits and have their place in the development community.  When it comes to Internet based website, landing pages, etc. it’s hard to argue with the benefits of PHP.  You can build websites in .NET, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP, CGI, Perl, etc.  You can get to the same end point; you just take a different path.

Here is a list of some of the most important benefits when looking at using PHP for your website: