Datawise Computing

Where do you start with a brand new web site? What is it that you want to do with it? Believe it or not, the internet is mainly all about words. You may use it to view videos or download music, but even for these you search for words.

This is where you need to start when considering your web site. What do you want to say to your audience, and what is that audience? Ultimately a web site is for the purpose of getting a message across, whether it be nothing more than the fact of your existence and availability as a business or other organisation.

So, before considering how it should look or what it should do, you should always consider the content: the words, images, ideas that you wish to convey to your target audience. Design is very important, but it still plays a supporting role to the actual content, so start with the content; all of it before considering how you want to package it.

When you have done this you will find that the message gets the priority that it deserves once you get to the design phase of your web design project.

I have for quite a few years now maintained a personal weblog at www.peterholloway.com. One of my hobbies is photography, and I wanted to change the look of the web site to enhance the display of my photographs. As a result the entire site has recently been redesigned, and the photos section reworked using the Lightbox script to display larger images.

Is a weblog the way to go for your business? Rather than designing a static site: one that doesn’t change from one day to the next, why not try a weblog designed for your business?

A weblog (or blog) is an online journal, and as such is great if you want to keep clients or customers up to date on what you are doing or what’s new. With a weblog you can write new entries yourself. They come nicely organised by date and with the facility to categorise them for easy viewing.

The  Datawise Computing web site is based on the popular  Wordpress weblog system. Hosted on our own server  the  Datawise Computing web site is a custom design applied to the standard Wordpress system. The result is a unique web site based on a tried and trused formula that allows the flexibility of regular updates by the site owner.