Research suggests that 7 out of 10 UK businesses have an online presence. That adds up to a lot of websites, and even more people behind the scenes making them happen.
This month’s tips recognise that those involved in creating and managing websites may come from very different professional backgrounds - from managerial or marketing experts to IT or technical gurus. With this in mind, each tip is designed to offer useful and relevant guidance on a range of subjects from web accessibility and copywriting for the web, to areas such as online promotion, web analysis and navigational design.
Download - 10 Top Tips for Managing a Better Website
These tips are really useful for businesses looking for a new website or improving an old one.
Points 8, 9 and 10 - I’m not so sure about. Yes hosting is important, but these days unless you are doing a national launch, bandwidth is pretty easy to come by even on low cost hosting plans. Also sitemaps are pretty “web 1.0″ (sorry), they often aren’t implemented well and just confuse the user. If the site is not dynamic they also become a pain to keep up to date. These days a well designed navigation (as you mention) and a decent search function does the job infinitely better - google search for business is highly recommended for a quick implementation.
Why do you have the tips as a pdf download? If they were in the post itself you would get better search engine placements for the content and you would also be more likely to get “socially bookmarked” by digg, reddit, etc users. Also I’m using Safari and the text in this textarea is tiny, just readable… This version of Wordpress also has a security hole.
As a side not, it’s really good to see Business Link using a blog, I’ll refer clients here now when trying to persuade them this is the way forward.