Web Design Questionnaire Website Redesign Questionnaire

If you are here to complete the questionnaire, it is down the page.  If you are interested in website design or redesign, please read on for a minute.

Top 5 Things New Web Designs Miss: KISS

1. Clear and compelling communication
   Most visitors to new websites allocate very little time to their initial visit.  You need to make your value proposition quick to understand and easy to find.

2. Information your visitors want
   Your website is for your visitors, not for you.  Can visitors easily determine if your services meet their needs and why they should do business with you?  Read about home page copywriting tips.  Do some testing.

3. Consistent page design with clear easy to use navigation
   Why sacrifice effective for fancy if fancy makes using the website more difficult?  If your market is Boomers and older folks this is especially true.

4. Better quality content
   Too many new websites blow the budget on fancy graphics and other bleeding edge bells and whistles and  compromise on the quality of copywriting and the quality of photography.  Don't waste your hard SEO work of getting them to the website to begin with and then cut corners on the quality of your information.  Do you want a fancy dust jacket or a well written book?

5. Content development without keyword research
   If you don't target your web pages based on what people are searching for, all your other search engine optimization efforts will be wasted.  Read about keyword services.

This page gets a lot of direct visitors from search engines and is # 1 on Google for web design questionnaire last time I looked. I surmise that folks may be looking for more information about what to do if you want to design or redesign a web.  So, if that is what you are looking for, read about web design costs and process or read about web design ideas related to usability or read about nonprofit website development or read about how to become number one at Google.  When I started doing my own web design in 1995 I had a lot of folks who helped me, and I am paying it forward.  I have lots of good, solid, easy to understand and helpful information in my web.  Check it out, I put it here for you.

In January 2010, in the USA market Google received 66.3% of all searches, Yahoo 14.5%, Microsoft Bing 10.9%, AOL Search 2.5% and Ask.com 1.9%.  The total number of searches in January 2010 was 10,272,099,000. These five named engines account for better than 98.9 percent of all searches in the USA.  Your website should be designed and optimized for performance with Google.

If you are also looking for good information about the basics of search engine optimization, look at my free SEO help page.  Check out Search Engine Workshop's online SEO training courses or live in-person SEO training classes.

Read my Search Engine Optimization Help blog.

Good web redesign or a new website design starts with a good plan.  A good plan is also a good way to get an accurate estimate for creating a new web or overhauling an existing web.  Plan your work and work your plan makes for a more efficient and cost effective project.

If you have an existing website use this web redesign questionnaire to get our input regarding what we can do to help you.  And, if you want to find out how your website ranks with major search engines today, take advantage of our free analysis offer.  You can do that before or after you complete this web redesign questionnaire.

Here we go, 10 steps to success:

Your contact info:

Name *
Title
Organization Name
Address
Address2
City
State or Province
Country
ZIP or Postal Code
Email *
Telephone
FAX
Your Website URL
2.  Describe the marketing strategy of your business.  And, what is the purpose of your web?  What do you want it to do for you? Who are your best customers, not company names but by type of business or consumer profile if you have one.  Why are they the best?  Take a long term view of your business, service or organization. You can type the equivalent of several pages of information in the box.
Marketing Strategy
3.  What do you expect to be included in your web?  What do you want people to see and know?  How many pages do you think it will take?  Make your best guesstimate.
Website Content
4.  If you do not have a domain name, what are your ideas for the name of your web?  You can enter more than one name if needed.
Domain or Website Name
5.  Do you already have graphic images, graphic logo, photographs, etc. that can be used in your web?  Please describe.
Content Available
6.  Do you have a color scheme or an idea about how you want your web to look?  Please describe.
Color Scheme and Appearance
7.  Are you intending to do ecommerce now or in the future? How many items for sale?
Ecommerce	Yes No Future
Ecommerce Items
8.  Do you use now or are you familiar with PayPal?
PayPal	Yes No
9.  Do you have a budget for your web design or redesign project?
Project Budget	Yes No
Budget Amount
10.  Enter any other ideas, comments or questions.
Comments or Questions
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