Form

You’ve heard this before: Form follows function.

This is simple wisdom. Your function or purpose in using technology to reach your target audience should guide you in the form you choose for yourself.

Appropriate Website Form
When you have a website, what’s in it matters just as much as how it looks and feels. The first page should be friendly, easy-to-understand, and provide answers to questions from your target audience that you anticipated in advance.

Too often, people put way too much stuff on the first page and end up overwhelming their website visitors. Better to keep things simple and easy for visitors to follow.

The structure of the inside pages of your site should be determined by your needs and requirements. But, you should aim to have no more than four to six main inside pages or sections. You do not want to risk overwhelming your visitors with too many choices.

This website has four main inside pages that are named Home, Start, Mode, and Form. These are all very simple one syllable words that appear as choices in tabs across the top of this site to make navigation easy for visitors.

Inside pages can have additional and related content on individual Web pages that appear underneath them. You, too, can have as many related content pages under your main inside pages as you need. But, try to limit the total number of pages so that you do not provide too much information and too many choices for your visitors.

Function and Feel
When you have your own website, it needs to have the appropriate functions to enable you to reach your business goals. The can mean, for example, that you use blogging as a way to reach out and interact with your target audience. Today’s best websites include the capability of blogging as a basic part of their overall function. You also have heard about Tumblr and Twitter, which can empower you with the microblogging capability–the more compact and sleek cousin of blogging.

How your site looks and feels is important. You don’t want an ugly, cluttered look. You also want a website that keeps your content separate from the technical factors. You should not turn to anyone to build your website unless they offer you this essential separation of content and technical presentation. The reason? You want to have the capability any time you want to change the look of your website without any impact upon your content.

The best website producers enable you to choose from a huge number of possible styles for how your site looks–even after your site is finished and available to visitors. Here are just a few examples to show you what is possible for you: