Many friends browsed my website through the articles I published and said that my website ranked well, but the website looked a bit ugly. It still used the CMS default template and just changed it to an ugly logo. I laughed and said yes. In fact, I have been thinking about this issue. Do I need to spend too much energy to decorate a beautiful template for my personal website? Here I would also like to share some thoughts on the website revision, which can also be regarded as a response to my fellow webmasters who have cared about me before.
I remember when I was in college, I became obsessed with making websites. I used all kinds of CMS systems like crazy. The first thing I did after installing a CMS and adding good columns was to change the template for the website. From a psychological perspective, this is understandable. Why? It's very simple, because you know that you are using a CMS system that everyone can use, and your website style may be exactly the same as many others. You can't get over the hurdle in your own mind, especially when you visit your own website every day. But when a website user visits, the first thing he or she will not consider is whether your website template is the CMS default or whether your website is the same as someone else's template. Maybe he doesn't understand the webmaster business at all. He only cares about whether he gets the information and content he wants when he visits your website. This is what he cares about.
Of course, it was only after I slowly built the website that I could think about these issues from the user's perspective. This all requires a growth process. Which webmaster hasn’t grown from a novice? When you think about these issues from the perspective of a real webmaster and user, you can run a website well. It must be stated that I am not saying that it does not matter whether the website is good or not.
Many webmasters have written articles and discussed this issue before, saying that this issue involves whether traffic or user experience comes first. In fact, I think that the experience of running a company and a team cannot be compared with that of a webmaster working alone. In the case of extremely scarce resources, webmasters should put aside spam sites and spam traffic. Personally, I think they should improve traffic first. In the early stage, individual webmasters place too much emphasis on the technical or aesthetic aspects that they are not good at, and may waste too much energy.
Going back to the topic further, when should the personal website be revised. I think it should depend on each individual situation. Some people criticized me and said that if I said it, I didn’t say it. In fact, if you think about it carefully, of course it depends on your own situation. First of all, your project determines many things. Different website projects have very different requirements for website user experience. The project budget again determines everything. As far as individual webmasters are concerned, they should still revise their website after meeting the following two points;
1. After the website positioning is clear. If the positioning is not clear, there is no website or revision. I change my ideas every now and then, and no website can be implemented for more than half a year, so I think the default template is very useful.
2. After having a certain amount of traffic. Traffic is converted into cash, and it is easier to do things if you have money in your hands. Because many webmasters have no foundation in art, they can find suitable people to design templates for themselves through outsourcing, intermediary services, and hiring.
3. After having a few loyal users. I believe many people are surprised by this. Does loyal users have anything to do with the website revision? Of course it does. As you can see, many excellent web2.0 website revisions will invite some enthusiastic users to participate in the design. The advantage of this is obvious, users may not know what they need. However, through good guidance and communication, you can get some constructive opinions from them on revising your website. By analyzing these opinions and combining them with the information that your product needs to convey, the revision can come naturally.
As for what to change, different webmasters must have different ideas. Here I would like to share something: imitate the leading sites in the same industry, and then figure out the characteristics of your own website based on the collected user suggestions and the information you want to convey. Believe me, your website will definitely shine.
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