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Is it Time to Redesign Your Website?

Oct 28, 2009
questions to consider when redesigning your website

Answer These 7 Sets of Questions to Help Identify Your Redesign Requirement

  1. Look and feel

    Does your site look dated?
    Does your site look unprofessional?
    Are the colours not appearing as they should on different browsers and screen resolutions?
    Does the site portray the corporate image successfully?

  2. Image Quality

    Are the graphics on your existing site poorly rendered?
    Does the site lack the proper image sizing and organization?

  3. Usability

    Do you often get visitors who can not find information?
    Should you be offering more in terms of Customer service and support?
    Do you have a high percentage of cancelled or aborted transactions?

  4. Ecommerce

    Do you have any products or services that you would like to sell online?
    Would you like to offer additional features to your ecommerce site? I.e. sale items.
    Do you have an inefficient or insecure way of processing online transactions?
    Would you like to expand your product catalogue?

  5. Content

    Is the content on your site irrelevant or out of date?
    Do you need to expand or edit the content on your site?

  6. Traffic

    Does your site lack visitors?
    Do your competitors sites rank higher than yours in search engine results?

  7. Overall

    Do your competitors have better web presence than you do?


    About the Author


    Tony Tullio Tony Tullio is the Director at Inorbital Inc. and always in search of good web services and useful websites. Let us know of what you think about this topic. Connect with him via Twitter and LinkedIn.
 

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These are all very valid questions. It's a good checklist upon which you can base your website's overall appeal and functionality.
Posted by : Getty Image Office Philippines    - Sunday, September 12, 2010
Designer Depot has a great blog entry preparing-and-planning-for-a-redesign if you like this topic.
Posted by : Tony - Thursday, September 09, 2010
This thorough post from Web Designer Depot expands on most of these questions.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/preparing-and-planning-for-a-redesign/

A very good article that can be used as a rational for redesign or not conundrum. What's really interesting is they insinuate that sites should be redesigned every 2 years...
Posted by : TonyT - Thursday, November 05, 2009
We should not forget to update this list of questions with those pertaining to social media functionality that has become essential to most web presence initiatives.
Posted by : TonyT - Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Also, it's important to choose Flash or simple HTML
Posted by : Osiol - Sunday, November 01, 2009




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