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Web Site Research Tutorial
This is a very important part in the creation of
a web site, and usually very useful.
 The
best way to research how your web site should look and be
structured is to spend a few hours or days looking around the
Internet at other web sites.
Look partially at your competitors web sites or web sites on the
same thing as yours is going to be.
See if you can get any ideas you can use and improve on.
See if there are things about other sites that you don't like or
find hard to use so you can avoid making the same mistake in
your web site.
Don't be mistaken that the flashest coolest looking web site is
the best. Quite often these sorts of sites will only work in the
latest browsers or are difficult to navigate, or take along time
to download.
Sites with lots of animation are not always the best. They may
take some time to download. Remember the average attention span
of most Internet users is 8 seconds. I for one find that as soon
as I see a loading sign for a web site, 98% of the time I will
immediately go to the next site.
You must also keep in mind that not everyone has a fast Internet
connection. In fact a recent poll carried out on one of my other
sites found that like myself over 1 in 3 people use a 56kbps
modem or less.
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