(Tips that require a basic understanding of coding and development)

There are many components to put in place when building your website. If planned with the precision of a Swiss watch, they should work together – all the moving pieces flawlessly synchronized to produce a high-performing and reliable website. Remove one of the components and you compromise the overall quality of your website.

"Never cut corners where it matters. Set your standards and create a plan for long-term durability, flexibility, and success."

Never cut corners where it matters. Set your standards and create a plan for long-term durability, flexibility, and success.

You’ve got your work cut out for you, but here are a few practical tips to get you started. These steps will help you discover what type of development team you’ll require and the things you need to think about before you begin developing your next website.

Different Needs – Different Strategies

When constructing a house, a builder must first consider what it takes to make it safe and long lasting. The builder will examine the blueprints, choose the right ground on which to build a firm foundation, and use proper materials and tools. Some might want a house with the flexibility to extend in the future, and some might want a house that is fit for a single purpose and comes in a prebuilt package. 

In the same way, choosing the right framework for your website is crucial to its durability, flexibility, and performance.

Usually, when a potential client contacts us, looking for a simple presentation website on a limited budget, we recommend simply starting with a website builder. In the future, when their business grows, they can invest in a custom-designed and custom-built website.

You might not need anything so complex. In that case, save your money and energy. If you are in need of a custom-designed and high-performance website or need more complex features and future scalability, here are two great frameworks to work with.

Gatsby.js: Speed Matters

Nowadays, with search engine optimization being so important, it is vital to choose a framework that will allow you to develop a blazing-fast website that search engines easily index. That’s why we recommend using pre-rendered frameworks such as Next.js or GatsbyJS, which are both frameworks of React. They’ll lower your server load to a minimum and increase your website speed to a maximum. 

Pre-rendering means that most of the processing of the website is done before your visitor lands on a certain page of your site (it is pre-loaded for them), making websites lightning fast and the user experience exceptional.

GatsbyJS is faster than Next.js because your website is literally deployed on a CDN (a content delivery network based on thousands of file-storage systems around the world). That means that someone searching your website from far away will receive the data from the file-storage system nearest to them, which tremendously increases the speed of access.

Next.js – Built for Interaction

When a client contacts us and says, “We’re looking to build a high-ranking website with a payment system and login capabilities,” our first response is, “Don’t use website-builder systems or a dated and heavy WordPress engine – unless your goal is premature hair loss and wrinkles.”

Next.js is the preferable framework when you’re building a website with more interactive elements that require more server logic, such as payment or donations systems, advanced marketing tools, custom sales funnels, login systems, or other kinds of complex interactions.

“Don’t use website-builder systems or a dated and heavy WordPress engine – unless your goal is premature hair loss and wrinkles.”

Either way, search-engine bots index both these frameworks well because they are built for search engine optimization.

So, when you’re planning to build your website, remember, the more thorough you are, the steadier and faster your website will be. Then the results will show in a long-lasting website that’s able to withstand a lot of traffic. You’ll be happy you invested in it as much as you did.

If you are in the process of building your website and need professional advice from our team of experienced web developers and designers, we are here to help. Please don’t hesitate to contact us.