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::Preparing Your Information For The Web::
The following are a few guidelines to take into consideration when preparing your information for use on the internet. Please read this through and it will increase the speed at which your site is built and the accuracy with which it is produced.
A Few Tips
When deciding what you wish to put on the internet, you must put yourself in the place of the viewer. A customer may open your website and want to know what products you offer, what price range they run at, and where to purchase your products.
Also, try not to be too wordy or too brief on a single webpage. Elongating descriptions can drive customers away from your website, and short descriptions may not provide the information a customer needs. Breaking your information into sections, as I've done here, allows readers to skip over information they do not wish to read, and jump right to what they need to know.
Text
After you have prepared the information to use on your website, it is recommended that you place the information into a word document, text document, or other digital form. This decreases the time it takes to build your website. Typed paper documents are fine, but then of course we must type them manually. Handwritten documents are acceptable, but they allow more chance for human error.
There is a two page maximum for typed or handwritten paper documents on each page of your website. A typing fee will be applied for documents over this maximum. For instance, the "About Us" page can have two pages of typed or handwritten information, and the "History" page can have two pages of typed or handwritten information. Although, the two websites combined is over 2 pages, neither one individually excedes this limit.
- Typed or digital documents recommended.
- Format the documents exactly as you wish them to appear on the internet.
- Typing fee for paper documents over 2 pages.
Images
As with text it is highly recommended that you include pictures in some type of digital form (Bitmaps, JPEGs, GIFs). This improves the quality of the pictures in the final product, and, as always, it saves us, the web builders, precious time, getting your website up and running faster. Scanned graphics have a lower quality than the original works.
- Digital Graphics recommended: Bitmaps, JPEGs, or GIFs preferred, but we can work with almost any format.
Links
Often this is one of the hardest parts of designing a website. Your linking scheme will determine the rate at which users access information. It must be planned out carefully.
An excellent way to map out your linking scheme is to use a flow chart. This chart will show you (and us) visually how your website will be linked.
There is one catch to linking websites together: the Three Click Rule. The three click rules means that from your homepage it should take the user only three clicks of the mouse to reach any part of your website. For instance, a user gets on to your website and clicks Products, then he or she clicks Vacuums, and finally clicks the vacuum model they are interested in. That's three clicks.
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