Each week I speak with companies who need a new website and complain to me about their current website. I’m a frank person and once someone knows this, they frequently just start saying the first thing that comes to their head. Some of the comments are so funny and painfully accurate, they have me laughing out loud and whipping the tears off my face. While that is good for me, it is not for the company who owns the website.
The below list of top reasons for a website redesign is a humorous take on my recent conversations with website owners. I wish I could say these were unrealistic and made up in my head, but they’re not. They’re based on real-world websites.
Top Ten Signs Your Website Needs a Redesign:
- Your website looks like it was design in 1995 and it was.
- Your website needs some updates, but the developer (aka your nephew) is now in college and is unavailable.
- Your animated gif is getting tired. He looked so hip back in the day, but dancing puppies just don’t articulate your marketing message like they should.
- If a battle were to break out, your company’s PowerPoint presentations would kick the crap out of your website’s content. Which it should, since the PowerPoint was updated last month and the website hasn’t been updated in years.
- Your website feels like a black hole. You’re not exactly sure how many people come to your website, what they do once there, and when they leave.
- Your website feel tiny compared to that of your competition. It looked great back in 2000 when the standard resolution size was 800×600. Today, well, not so much.
- You navigation is so poor, you and your website visitors have difficulty finding relevant content.
- You have duplicate content and you didn’t even know you had. But Google did and you’ve been hit by Google’s Panda update because of it.
- Your website is so slow you can grab a cup of coffee while navigating between pages.
- You greet visitors with a talking image of yourself. That may have been ultra cool years ago, but now it is just really annoying. And when the world talks about social, they do not mean talking avatars.
Again, real-world websites and comments from website owners. But there is hope. You are no longer forced to rely on your tech savvy nephew or an outdated WYSWYG software package with limited capabilities. You can use modern tools like WordPress and Google Analytics to create a fresh new website presence.
