Guide to Choosing a Good Ecommerce Website Design firm

Choosing the best e-commerce web development firm is not an easy job. Hence we are giving you some guidelines to determine the capability of the e-commerce web development firm. These tips will help you to know whether the company is good for your business venture or not. Following these tips will help you to make a wise use of the thousands of dollars that you spend for developing a professional website for your business.

The web development firm should have the range of services that you are looking for. The web development firm that you choose should provide services like e-commerce web development & web hosting, logo design and content management. They should also give updated services for the growth of your business.Try to go through the previous works of the web development firm that you are planning to choose. You can conduct a detailed analysis of their previous works and also compare it with the works of the other leading e-commerce web development firms. If the company is a well established one, you will get these get the details from their website. Make sure that you read all the details given in their website, including the portfolios and testimonials.

Those who are planning to add an online store in to your web design should meet web developers who are experienced in creating shopping carts. They should have the required experience, along with the creativity and imagination to design online stores, so as to make it unique and special. The web design firm should also be capable of catering other e-commerce solutions like internet marketing and advertising.

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Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design

The Useit website has a very interesting collection of yearly “Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design” lists. According to the site the lists include “the ten most egregious offenses against users, (…) website design disasters and HTML horrors”. The lists are organized by year, and below you will find the latest update, check it out because most of  the points apply to blogs:

Bad Search: overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they’re unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody.

PDF Files for Online Reading: users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things like printing or saving documents are difficult because standard browser commands don’t work.

Not Changing the Color of Visited Links: a good grasp of past navigation helps you understand your current location, since it’s the culmination of your journey. Knowing your past and present locations in turn makes it easier to decide where to go next. Links are a key factor in this navigation process.

Non-Scannable Text: a wall of text is deadly for an interactive experience. Intimidating. Boring. Painful to read.

Fixed Font Size: CSS style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser’s “change font size” button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40.

Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility: search is the most important way users discover websites. Search is also one of the most important ways users find their way around individual websites. The humble page title is your main tool to attract new visitors from search listings and to help your existing users to locate the specific pages that they need.

Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement: selective attention is very powerful, and Web users have learned to stop paying attention to any ads that get in the way of their goal-driven navigation.

Violating Design Conventions: consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience. Every time you release an apple over Sir Isaac Newton, it will drop on his head. That’s good.

Opening New Browser Windows: opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks.

Not Answering Users’ Questions: users are highly goal-driven on the Web. They visit sites because there’s something they want to accomplish — maybe even buy your product. The ultimate failure of a website is to fail to provide the information users are looking for.

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