What is good website

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What is good website

tell me..

Gero_Master

3:08 pm on Jan 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

I want to know what u think is the best website

goodroi

5:15 pm on Jan 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

There is no single best website. There are leaders in different areas.

Amazon.com is a leader in usability.
Yahoo & Google are leaders in search.
Ebay is a leader for auctions.
Gator is a leader in spyware ;).
Dmoz is a leader of directories.

If you want to make the best site for your own situation, you should first decide what action you want to occur. Do you want more page views, repeat visitors, completed forms, sales etc. Then build a site for that purpose.

monkeythumpa

6:03 pm on Jan 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

I would have to disagree about Amazon as having good UI. But that is the thing, you have to figure out what your demographic is. I must not be one of Amazon's targets. I run a site about pets and another about motorcycles. One is "shiny and happy" and the other is "dark and industrial". Research other sites in your vertical and listen to your gut. There are conventions used when building any site. Most should be adhered to, but sometimes it is ok, and even rewarded, to be different.

I like Landsend.com for usability for an ecommerce site.

And if traffic is the measure of a good website, Yahoo is the best.

Gero_Master

5:23 pm on Jan 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

I meant more like 'what is good webpage' = 'what is goodly designed webpage'. like what is good layout, graphics, font etc

EDIT: but for what u ment, my sites would be about downloads and information

JayCee

8:08 pm on Jan 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

That is a difficult (impossible?) question.
Much of what makes a site "good" depends on what it is supposed to accomplish (like the above posts point out).

There are some strict rules though, in a few areas:
It should:
1. Be very usable (a search here on "usability" may help you)
2. Validate for HTML code and other codes used (e.g. CSS), using standard code validation programs.
3. Display correctly in the more popular browsers. I feel that its images should be made on a calibrated monitor.
4. Download quickly on the type of connection that most of your target audience has.
5. Be easy to maintain.
6. Should be appealing to your target audience.
7. Look "professional"
8. Not have major impediments to online marketing (e.g. frames, large hunks of scripting before the body text, etc.)
9. Not depend on fads in design or coding (they will soon be made "old fashioned", as the next fad hits)

That's all that comes to mind at the moment :)