subject: Website Design Considerations - Single Vs Multiple Page Websites [print this page] Website Design Considerations - Single Vs Multiple Page Websites
The moment you think of a website you are visualizing a website with at least 5 pages. An eye catching index page that wholeheartedly welcomes your visitors, a Contact Us page that will have your contact information and may be a contact form, an About Us page that will tell the visitors who you are and what you do and one or two other pages about your products or services etc. But how many pages your site will have should be determined by the contents you present in your site and not by the number of menu items that is conventionally used in websites.
If you are introducing your business to the world with your website you are likely to have a good number of pages. Your site will definitely have a welcome page, a contact page, a page talking about your company, a page talking about the services you provide, a page talking about your company structure, a page about awards and so on and so forth.
Alternatively in recent times more people are coming online to sell their products or services. Most of these businesses have one or two products like an ebook, or an electronic product, an agri product, hosting service etc. Although most of these business websites have very small amount of contents to present to their visitors they mostly have about four or five page websites.
While designing a website the primary objective should always be to make the site easier for the visitors to gather the information provided. If your website has few contents like a welcome message, contact information and say about two hundred word on what service you are providing having a five page website is waste of visitors' precious time. On the other hand having a single page, or minis website as they are sometime called, where you have to scroll down to eternity till you reach the end of the page is also meaningless and frustrating to its visitors.
A simple consideration of the amount of pages directly accessible by menu should be the length of contents and what the content is all about. If your content for any page is more than three key stokes then you are better off splitting the page into multiple pages.
Multiple pages do not necessarily mean multiple menus. Your pages can be linked with Continue or Next Page button for navigation.
In most of the site selling in single product I prefer a site with a single page layout that talks about the product in the front page and has a small order now section or button at the end of the product description. You can also have a Contact Us form or information on a separate column followed or preceded by testimonials or reviews. This should only be done if you are selling one product or service. If, on the other hand, you have more then one product to sell you are better off with a separate page for products with a menu Product taking visitors to that page.
If you need a separate product page consider putting the review or testimonials somewhere in the page. This will allow the visitors to not only read about your product description but also what other people have to say about your product.
In other words the number of pages your site will have and the menu items will depend on the type and quantity of information you are presenting to the visitors and their meaningful arrangements.
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