
Here are the tips to create effective business website :
Design
- Design based on your target audience and their expectations
- Create unique design, avoid off-the-shelf templates/themes
- Follow the latest trends but customize to your requirements
- Use single color palette, comprising not more than 2-3 colors
- Select appropriate font and font-size
- Wireframe design should be easy to navigate and have user friendly layout
- Design should be responsive and optimized for iPad, android and other mobile OS
Branding & Marketing
- Color schemes, font, typography, theme should accentuate your visual brand and market positioning
- Hotel/ brand logo should be clearly visible
- Display current offers, promotions and packages prominently
- Social media icons should be clearly visible
- Links from relevant social media pages or articles should land on the appropriate page of website
Content
- Tailor content to suit your targeted audience
- Include accurate, personalized, search engine optimized content
- Use variety of high resolution images of property, facilities, room types to engage and create connection with guest
- Include videos to capture viewer’s attention
- Include reviews & testimonials as a selling point on website
- Highlight unique selling points
- Upsell additional services with relevant content
- Include blog covering local attractions, events
- For international visibility and higher ranking on search engines, provide option of multilingual content
- Contact information, location and directions map should be clearly displayed
- Room features, rate plan and cancellation polices should be concise and clear
Development & Hosting
- Site should have a powerful, robust and secure Booking Button to get direct bookings
- Should perform well and be compatible with different browsers and versions
- Should be fast to load and easy to navigate
- Support multilingual site
- Website should connect seamlessly with property management systems, channel manager and analytics tools
- Links & buttons should be easily visible and clickable and take to relevant content
- Ensure that site is secure
- Test thoroughly before making the site live