Good Practices

At Wolftek we believe in keeping things simple.

The best results are achieved by following good design principles and practices and simplifying things as much as possible for your visitors.

This includes following W3C guidelines where appropriate, limiting the use of text within graphics, limiting or avoiding hidden menu options and generally making your website easy to navigate, informative and direct.

In today’s world expect your customer to be inpatient, don’t waffle, tell them what they want to know straight away.

Try to limit the use of hidden menus for public website’s where your users are unlikely to invest the time in learning how your website works.

Use high contrast text / background colours to ensure that your messaging is easily read, especially important if your wish to achieve accessibility ratings.

Use colours and styles which convey your intentions – pink is not good for a corporate website, but for a mother and baby website it is perfect.

Make sure that the home page loads quickly. Avoid complicated flash and JavaScript on your homepage.

Do not use visible website counters, there is nothing worse than seeing websites that have not had many visitors.

Do not use automated search engine submission software, there are only a handful of search engines that will actually benefit your business many others just collect your email so they can spam you.

Don’t let you website stagnate, if you have regular visitors you will need to keep you website fresh and interesting, don’t get complacent.