Hope you're excellent. I wrote today's blog with one idea in mind: to help accelerate your online presence.  A quick guide to provide simple to follow tips for a good website.

These are some essential key elements that make up a good website.

1. Visual Design– Design is an all encompassing word for all the visuals elements of your website such as header banner, logo, fonts, white space, color theme and layout.
   
   Your website theme must relates to the topic or business of your website. Font selection should be such that it should be easy to read for most of the eyes. Try to use original images than stock images, this definitely help brand your website.
    
2. Navigation– Navigation is very important for a website. Good website always keep navigation as simple as possible. Navigation Bar or Menu Bar get your visitors where they need to go to get information on your website or do certain things. Streamlined navigation and well classified web pages makes website navigation pleasant and increases the chances of converting prospect to business.
    
3. Content– The key to a good website is providing relevant content that your readers want.  Contents of your website must clearly state, what you offer and what your visitors can expect. Other most important thing is regular updates, no buddy wants to visit frozen website!
    
4. Minimal - It is necessary for a good website to be clean, clear and with only information that is important and matter most to your website visitor. Don’t flood your website with unnecessary information and images. Avoid overstating about yourself and writing about services which you can not handle or not yet ready to deliver. Minimalistic approach is best, which we followed while building ShimBi Labs website.
    
5. Call to Action – The Call to Action is a set of words that urge your website visitors to take an immediate action on your website. For example, “Sign Up Now”, “Buy Now”.  There is no magic formula for maximum visitors to take action. The key is to continuously test what works the best for your website and your audience. Test the placement, size and color of such action buttons, links.
    
6. Credibility – A good website instills trust from visitors. Good website design takes this into consideration by incorporating items that help identify that you are a legitimate resource. One way you can do so is by clearly stating your identity and contact information, including your business physical address, and location map. This is particularly very important even if you are one man company and operates from your drawing room. You can always say this is mail address and not walk in address.
   
   Few other things also can help establish your credibility such as employing social proof, providing reference of your clients, informing your affiliations and partners details.
    
7. Mobile site – More and more people are using a mobile phones or tablets and other net enabled devices. So it is also important that your website is compatible and easy to access from such handheld devices.
   
   Quick note: ShimBi CMS powered websites are mobile and Tab compatible.

Hope this blog post will be useful for you while building your website.
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Prachi