subject: Why Should a Cheap Website Have to Mean a Poor Website? [print this page] A cheap affordable website should not have to mean a poorly built website, missing some important features. There are web design companies out there offering extremely good features at a reasonable price, including some of those nice touches you see in high end website builds.What Features Should I Expect In My Budget Website?Here are 10 features that in my opinion even a budget price website package should contain:1. A CSS styled website design with external CSS files. To clarify what this means, this is a much more convenient way of managing the design features and layout of a website on a site wide basis.2. Website code that passes from the W3C validation process. This is an important feature as websites with code that passes the validation process will be much easier for search engine robots to crawl and therefore make indexing of your website a speedier process.3. All meta tags should be completed and the extremely important description tag on every page should contain a page specific description, not a site wide generic description that is repeated time and time again on every page.4. The title tag on every page should be completed incorporating the important keywords for that particular page. Once again, the title tag should not be one generic tag that is repeated throughout the site but page specific5. Of course you will want your new website to have a modern, fresh looking layout that is uncluttered and extremely easy to navigate. For some excellent site examples, view some web 2.0 sites as they are often particularly well designed, minimalistic and easily navigated.6. What about the robots.txt file? Will you have one included in your website build or will this be omitted? This is very important as this file tells the search engines which files and folders on the server they are permitted to index, and which ones they are not allowed to go near.7. What about a sitemap? A sitemap.xml file which can be submitted to Google in the Google Webmasters panel by your website builders and is extremely important as it helps your site to get quickly indexed by the search engines.8. Will you have an interactive contact form? Will your website company incorporate a contact form into your site as part of your agreed, affordable package price, or will this become an additional charge?9. Will you have images on your site and how will they be displayed? Are you going to have just a few images dotted throughout your whole site or will you have an impressive light box style gallery?10. And while we are on the subject of images, will you have to provide the designers with all your own images or will they be able to provide you with some relevance stock images in the event that you do not have any available?So there you have it. 10 features that in my opinion every website, even affordable budget websites should have included in them. If your web design company is not prepared to include these features, maybe you should consider looking for an alternative company to build your website for you.
Why Should a Cheap Website Have to Mean a Poor Website?
