What Makes a Great Website?
One of the things that intreagues me the most is what other people consider a great website. Is it the graphics, layout of the site, clean code, or a few flashy features? To each person, it is something different.
So, what do I think makes a great website?
First and foremost, I like a clean design. You could be giving away free money, but if your site isn’t clean - it will turn me off and I will leave. When I visit a site, I like to have everything congruent. If I have to hunt for navigation, or my mind starts wondering how something relates to the rest of the page - my mouse is headed for the exit.
The second thing I expect in a great website is quality content. If you are giving away free money, I want some good information about how to get it. If you are showing off your family photos, don’t stop with just a mess of them on a page - break them up and give some background on them.
Finally, my last big pet peeve is ugly design. If you have a clean design, it is not necessarily pretty. Likewise, if you have great content, it is not necessarily going to lead to you having the best breakdown of it. However, if you have a both of them, you can pretty design (I’m not talking about graphically). Pretty design is ensuring that your site is easy to follow, organizes content in the best and most logical fashion, and giving a great user experience.
Those are my top three areas I rank sites on: cleanliness, good content, and well laid out.
What do you look for in a great website?
To me, A good website is that has clean design and easy to nevigate so that a computer illiterate person also can use your website easily.
According to me, good content is very important for a website.
From my side a good website should have good content and also good looking.