Design Your Own Philatelic Website

WEB CONTENT

The content of the website is important. What would your content be? If you are a dealer interested in selling on the Internet it will be mostly about what you have to sell. Scanned images of philatelic material with brief description and cost. If you are a collector interested in displaying your collection it will be an exhibit of your philatelic material neatly categorised.

Writing for the website is very different from writing books or articles. The text should be brief with proper titles so that visitor can move fast to what he wants. Visitors browse your site. They will stick on only if something interests them. They are on the lookout for some information and if it is not available on your site they move on.

Put a page about yourself. This is important, especially if you are a dealer. How will your visitor know you are a genuine person and not some gimmick? Plan to put some way of interacting with your visitor. A form for his feedback, some way of analysing the response of your visitors. Do not feel bad if you do not get any mails even if your page hit counter shows an increase. People will respond only if they have a need to do so. Having decided on the content you are ready to design your website.

Some interesting site to see before you start designing your web page. Have a look at some of the websites. Some site are BAD! try to avoid the mistakes they have made.

www.users.nac.net/falken/annoying Annoying web pages!

www.webpagesthatsuck.com Try to avoid these website mistakes.

glassdog.com/design-o-rama All about designing a web page. PDF format downloadable files are available here for offline reference.

www.coolhomepages.com This has homepages categorised for you.

webdesign.about.com
About's web design site with lots of links