Secrets that Website Designers Don't Want You to Know!
This is probably one of the most misunderstood of all of the issues that a new online business owner has to face when looking for the correct website that will continually reach your goals. A website is only as good as the platform and the training of the people who intend to use them. In many cases looks can be deceiving. To understand what platform that will work best in your situation you must first know what the different types of website that are out there and what each offers. Listed below are different kinds of websites as well as videos from the people who use them. First we will look at the most basic platforms.
Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML
HTML is the basics of how your browser views and displays the internet. Beginners first start by learning the HTML code. HTML sites can be made by hand coding the correct code inside of notepad and displayed in your favorite browser. While knowledge of proper coding and years of experience is necessary to create simple functional and anesthetically pleasing website, there are lots of drawbacks for a owner of pure HTML websites. HTML sites do not offer the protection against theft from downloads like other website platforms and HTML can be spotted from a mile away. Often the beginner website designer will try to overcome the limited functionality by using what is referred to as tables and embeddable add-ons. Tables are like blocks or containers that house code or images to control where the contents placements.
Take a look below at a Sample of a rudimentary HTML based website.
HTML websites are easy to spot because of the lack of functionality and versatility of other platforms.
HTML is a good starting point for a website but if you intend to have any serous business on the internet stay away from HTML. The limitations of this website combined with the blocky and unappealing looks drives people clinking off the website for fear that it contains viruses and spy ware. This is because these types of website are the same that beginners work with and they are the easiest to clone and steal code from.
HTML Website Cost of Longer-term Ownership
HTML sites cost big bucks in the long-term. With the information on the internet on HTML Coding there are allot of newbie's to learning the HTML coder who call themselves website designers and charge little to nothing to major bucks to design these flat limited website the majority of the money that a HTML website cost is in having to go to a website designer each time you need to make a change in content, pictures, pages, menus, and all of the extras. This is because you have to hand code each and every page. This means that if you had a small website of about 75 pages and you wanted to add a page and have every page link to the new page you have made the HTML designer would have to go to each and every page to change every single page and add the necessary coding that required the change. This can be a very expensive endeavor when most charge big money just so you can add one page of content.
HTML sites have to be completely rebuilt from the ground up if the website owner wants to update the look and feel of the site. The designer will have to build a completely new website and delete the old site. Because HTML based websites are already outdated, they will expect low traffic because the standards of website visitors always flock to newer and fresher website jam packed with valuable features and applications that today are commonplace.
Flash Based Websites
Flash websites can offer stunning multimedia effects like video and audio as well as motion. A flash website is constructed more like a movie than a website. Flash based websites are built layer by layer and frame by frame through expensive and complex Flash deign software. This software like operating software is constantly outdated when the next year's Flash software is introduced. It is easy to tell if the site you are looking at is a flash website. Just right click and you will see a dialog box that will pop up and tell you what version of flash the object you clicked is using. While flash based websites can be stunning in their inmate first impressions they do have major problems.
Flash website content is not searchable by search engines. This means that all the hard work in building content for your site will not do you an ounce of good when it comes to getting natural free traffic from search engines. This is due the nature of the platform. The test that you see is suspended in a movie or picture so to speak. Search engines when they look at your site to give it a rank are dependant on finding the words inside the code of the site and Flash based website offer no relevant data that is useful or even readable to these spiders.
Flash websites require the user to download in most cases the entire site. This is a problem for visitors with low connection speeds or times of high network traffic. This means that would be customers have to in most cases wait long periods of time while the site "loads" if it loads at all. 99% of these types of customers never even get past the first page or even to it. They just simply click off your site to another website to find what they are looking for there. The majority of which just assume that your sites down and never come back.
Flash site cost more to advertise, maintain, and you might as well be married to your Flash designer. Unlike HTML, Flash requires extensive knowledge of the building process of how the website designer made that particular site as well as software that runs up in the thousands of dollars to make the changes.
Take a look at a flash website by clicking the link below
Flash Website Cost of Long-term Ownership
Flash based website have the industries highest cost when owner want to add change and modify and initially build their website. Most of all the traffic from these types of sites are only to be sustained by the high cost of Pay Per Click advertising due to the incompatibilities of Flash site to gain traffic from the Free natural means like search engines. Flash sites are all built on outdated technologies. Like computers, once the new program hits the market it is quickly obsolete and the site owner would have to have the site rebuilt every year to maintain their market share of repeat visitors.
Hosting Cost
Flash based websites have the highest cost of hosting of all of the types of websites on the market today, with some costing in the tens of thousands of dollars each month in bandwidth alone.
Content Management System (CMS) Website platforms
CMS websites are the only type of website that gives the highest control to the owner. Just like it says CMS websites allow the user to Manage all of the content and placement while utilizing the highest in security and technology. CMS Websites have a plethora of applications that can be added on when and where the owner chooses. With the proper training a website owners can decide what level of control they wish their staff and visitors to have access to. It is CMS website platforms that have made all other types of websites to become just about obsolete in the online market place. In fact the site you are on now is a CMS website.
Benefits of CMS Platforms
- Websites Grow with new technology and never becomes outdated or obsolete
- Websites owners have full control of adding their own Content
- Millions of add-ons available and new add-ons available each day from dedicated Open Source Networks
- Changing your sites look and theme is as simple as just clicking a few buttons
- No expensive software required to change, update, or add new content
- Website Management is done from any computer with an internet Connection
- One Platform can do it all.
- MYSQL Database Incorporated
- Best Search Engine Friendly Pages in the Industry
- CMS websites grows with your company
- Support for New Components
- Cost of owning a CMS website is far below that of other platforms
- CMS offer the highest amount of Customer satisfaction because CMS Websites offer the largest available applications add-ons in the industry
CMS is in fact the largest growing website platform in the world used in every country in every language in the world.
CMS Long-term Cost of Ownership
CMS has the lowest cost in the industry for hosting adding site content and upgrading. With a CMS website customers never have to pay for a website designer to rebuild their website for simple theme or contextual changes. Owner has full control of all of the websites abilities and functions and do not have to pay a website designer for simple and easy additions.