Defination of a website.

A website is simply an online representation of a physical business, school, church, organization, company, person, ideas, etc. Just like people may have shops, houses, books offline, so too is it possible to have such properties online. a website is a combination of a domain name, hosting, sll, email services. Which ensure the presentation of information and effective secured communication between users and website owners.

Features Of A Website

Websites can have a variety of features, depending on their purpose and design. Some common features of websites include:

• Easy Navigation menus

Your website needs to be laid out clearly, and navigation should never be something that confuses or even frustrates visitors. Make sure the most important aspects of the design are within simple and easy reach, keeping the less relevant features within more discrete locations, but still easily accessible.

• Search bars

This feature gives visitors the means to quickly search for what is on your website. For example, if you have an e-commerce website, customers can easily find products on your website by typing in the name of the product in the search bar.

• Contact forms

This is another vital component of the website as it is the means by which visitors can get in touch with the website owners easily

• E-commerce functionality

With this functionality, you can Add products and product prices and also add payment methods to your website.

• Responsive design for mobile devices

This is a very important feature when it comes to website Designing. A website must be able to adapt to whichever device your potential customer is using. This shows your customer you are thinking of them and their user experience. Importantly, Google now prioritizes these sites in searches so if you want to stay competitive, you need a responsive website.

•   Call to Action

Ultimately, the aim of your website is to make visitors do something. The easiest way to do this is to add a Call to Action( CTA) on your website that draws the attention of customers when scrolling on your site. A CTA is mostly in the form of a button carrying text like "Contact Us Now", "Shop Now", etc. This could be buying products or sending a submission form, both of which will require some form of a call to action. 

•   Testimonials

The more transparency you can offer consumers when they visit, the more likely they are to make an enquiry or purchase. Grab hold of reviews from previous customers and put the best on your site, as this provides concrete evidence that you practice what you preach.

Quality of a good website

• Unique: Every website represents a unique business or establishment hence should have a unique design.
• Clear purpose: The website will clearly define the reason for it existence right from the homepage.
• Good Functionality: We establish accurately different functionalities based on specific needs.
• Easy navigation: We design websites that clearly direct visitors to get get whatever information they need.
• Simple and attractive designs: No need for complex designs this days. We keep it simple but very presentable.
• Mobile Usability / Friendliness / Responsiveness : We design websites that opens seamlessly on all devices. our website readily adjust its layout to suit different viewing devices.
• Fast load speed.: We design websites with very fast loading speed as fast as even 1 seconds depending on the type of website invole and maximum of 5 seconds.
• Secured: We host our websites on a dedicated server, with domain ssl and other security software to easily mitigate any hacking attack.
• Quality Content: We take charge of retructuring the information you give us into the most pleasant content that visitors can easily digest.
• Optimized For Search Engines such as Google, Bing, etc : We design website with the mindset of ranking on search engines, hence all websites we design are highly SEO friendly.

The modern-day business can never shy off the importance of a website to the success of every business. Whether small or big, every business needs a website for easy success.

Building a website many years ago was a very difficult activity such that unless you possess a very sound knowledge in software programming you cannot there to think about it. Thanks to the introduction of CMS (content management system that has made things so easy for everyone. Today anyone from any program can engage in designing beautiful and fully functioning websites to suit the need of his or her immediate surrounding.

This course was designed with the intention of helping anyone interested in web design to acquire the right knowledge needed in designing a website in the shortest possible time even with little or no knowledge in coding.

This course is going to guide you from zero to hero with practical examples to enable you to develop your skill.

At the end you should be able to design different types of websites to different clients including ecommerce, business, portfolio, blog, and make them happy. 

Kindly follow the step by step learning program by proceeding to the next lesson.