Hi all, Say I have websites that I intend to evaluate prior to a complete revamp. What criteria should I employ to do so? 1. Website Architecture 2. Usability (is it easy or difficult to find key information) 3. Colour Scheme (contrasting colours or NOT) How can I do a thorough and comprehensive analysis? Are there any other points one should consider?
Depends entirely on the site you're trying to the revamp. What I suggest is that you do some analysis on the content - what are users of the site looking for? Are they looking for information about events, prices, a way to contact the company/site? Find out what the users are looking for, emphasize that, and make sure that the information most sought is easy to find on the site. Then, of course, make sure the site works on different platforms, and that you have a working site also for those browsing with no javascript, a text-browser, etc.
Instead of looking at the existing site, look at the client (yourself?). Write a new site specification. What is the site supposed to do, how will it do it, what content will the site have, from where will it come, what are the relative importances of the content, what vocabulary will visitors use to find the site, what authentication and authority are needed? $DEITY only knows what I've left off of this ad hoc list. This information gathering, determining the problem/s/ to be solved and specifying the solution are the most important parts of your refactoring process; the graphic design is the least. The great majority (IMV) of redesigns are because of the site owner becoming bored with his own pages, when the sole, rational cause ought to be to increase its value to the visitor. Just my 2ยข American, gary
The most important factor when you are evaluating website is your search and your needs. At the time of website designing you should have to take care of your some points like authority and accuracy, purpose and content, currency, the designing of website, organization and ease of use, you must follow the check list while evaluating website. You can also provide some offers for SEO with website design packages, I have seen one website names is xsitepro-seo which is providing SEO services with website.
Plus over 9000 get. Wait did I just combine three meme in one sentence using only four words?!? Above and beyond anything else is making the site more useful to users. Goofy graphics, animated scripttardery, and dumbass navigational trickery (yes parallax, I'm looking at you!) do NOT deliver that. More often than not they do the exact opposite. As you have likely seen me post several dozen times by now, people do NOT visit websites for the goofy graphics you hang around the content or the scripttardery that distracts from the content -- they visit FOR the content. Delivering that content in as user-friendly and accessible a manner as possible to as many visitors as possible is the be-all end-all of web design, and ANYONE telling you otherwise doesn't know enough about interface design or even what a website is for to be flapping their gums on the subject. Sadly that covers about 99%+ of the people who sit there spanking it on the screen in Photoshop and then have the giant pair of donkey brass to call themselves designers. They've been bullshit by others, the bullshit themselves, and now they pass the bullshit along -- typically not knowing enough about HTML, CSS, emissive colourspace, semi-fluid elastic responsive design, or accessibility minimums to be qualified to design anything more than a poster for the local diner.