Website design guide 101

Website design - why?

It's all too easy to begin a web design project for the wrong reason. Just because you think rats make a fantastic pet doesn't mean anyone else cares enough to visit a website about it. Before you get stuck in with building or overseeing the build of your site make absolutely certain you are not wasting your time.

Research your subject. For example perform searches on the major search engines, such as Google, MSN and Yahoo to discover if there is a niche for your idea amongst sites of similar interest. Put aside any pre-conceptions you may have and ask yourself (and as many other people who are prepared to answer), "Is there a need for this?". If the answer is even remotely yes then go ahead and begin the next stage. After all, with so many users of the internet the chances are someone, somewhere will be interested in your site. If, however, you can't come up with a reasonable excuse for your site then don't waste your time

Designing an effective website is not easy. It can be expensive and is often unrewarding so make sure you are confident you are not wasting your time before you begin.

Tip 1: Do your research and be confident you are not wasting your time!

Next: Website design objectives - phase one

Mighty Media are a full service multimedia company and have employed an in-house team of website designers since 1997. Our practical, marketing oriented approach to website design has resulted in numerous site launches that succeed in driving qualified, targetted leads to our client's businesses.

Mighty Media is regarded as one of the premier Buckinghamshire website design agencies with a track record in corporate communications that forms the underlying foundation of their work.

Established for over 25 years, Mighty Media began making TV commercials and later diversified into the corporate video production sector working with household names such as Procter & Gamble, Mars, Nationwide Building Society and other familiar names. With a strong background in internal and external communications Mighty Media progressed into new media production. Mighty Media now specialise in CD-Rom design and production, e-learning solutions, intranet design, extranet design, video production and website design.

Based in Bourne End on the border of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Mighty Media now provide website design and online marketing services to businesses from all over the UK.

• Amersham, Ascott, Ashendon and Aylesbury
• Beaconsfield, Bellingdon, Bourne End, Buckingham and Burnham
• Chalfont, Chesham, Chorleywood, Cliveden, Cookham and Cores End
• Denham and Desborough
• Flackwell Heath and Furlong
• Gerrards Cross
• Hambleden, Hazlemere and High Wycombe
• Iver
• Lane End
• Marlow and Milton Keynes
• Primrose Hill and Princes Risborough
• Slough, Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Poges and Stokenchurch
• Taplow
• Wooburn and Wycombe

• Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall and Cumberland
• Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset and Durham
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire
• Kent
• Lancashire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire
• Middlesex
• Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex
• Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire and Worcestershire
• Yorkshire