Purpose of Websites
Hi, welcome to Hotlab technologies, we are a software development and digital marketing company. Today we are about to discuss personal and business websites.
Yes, there are trillions of websites on the internet, out of them the most dominant category of websites are known to us are personal and business or commercial website.
There are more sub-categories to these websites. But, we are discussing the purpose for which it works, either for an individual or a company.
Purpose of Personal Websites
The main objective of a personal website is to showcase your personal talents to the world.
This website speaks about the bio-information of the owner concerning personal information, educational qualification, experiences, expertise and the work he has done over the period.
The website is mostly created for personal purposes like marriage, birthday, family media or a biography of the person. It also has daily updates from the author or the owner.
These websites are more closely connected to social media. These websites are mostly static and are updated by the owner at regular intervals.
Purpose of Business Websites
As the name suggests the business websites are professional websites created to exhibit information about the business in a very professional manner.
Naturally, business websites have certain elements that they should hold to create a rapport with the customer to grow the business.
The websites should include a landing page, web hook page, self-description page, product or services page, conversion page, transactional page, blog page and contact page.
They may also require other custom pages as per the business requirements. They are mostly dynamic to foster clients with updated information about the business and its offerings.
Creation of Personal Websites
The creation of personal websites is simple and requires less effort for development which saves time and money.
Almost all the websites have similar template structures to serve definite purposes. The main objectives of these websites are it has to be good looking with more graphics loaded to make them attractive to the visitors.
Most of them are connected to social media sites to show their latest posts or pictures or videos or tweets to get more attraction.
Creation of Business Websites
Business websites on the other hand are too complex to design and develop as they have to satisfy multiple purposes of the business.
The user interface or appearance reflects the reputation of the company and so they have to be designed very carefully.
The design of the website and the interactive patterns are to be analyzed before the development. T
here are many stages of development and testing to meet the real-time traffic without lagging and the client experience should be flawless at all times.
The websites are to be developed with international standards and practices to provide more agile and optimal user experiences.
Timeline for Personal Websites
Personal website designing and development needs less time as compared to professional business websites.
There have few pages to develop and most of the content on these websites are pictures, videos with graphics to show up to the users.
They don’t have complex processes involved makes them easy to design. These websites can be further classified as personal blogging sites, Ceremonial Sites, Family Sites, Hobby sites or informative sites.
The colours combination on these sites is pre-defined and mostly contributed by the choice person owning the website, which reduces the development time drastically.
Timeline for Business Websites
A professional website always will have huge requirements to accomplish, which makes it very hard to develop. The time taken for every website varies with its business requirements.
The coding has to be very agile to serve as many customers as it could at any given point in time.
The development of a business website has four major parts such as documenting the requirements, designing of the website, development of operation, testing and launch of the website.
The documentation of business requirement will consume around ten per cent of the total project time.
The designing will consume thirty per cent of the project time. The development will consume around thirty per cent of the project time.
The launch of the website will consume thirty per cent of the project time. All the time mention above may vary from project to project as per the business requirements.
Security for Personal Websites
The security is one of the important factors in every piece of webpage on the internet.
The amount security required for a website is directly proportional to the risk it is involved.
The more the complexity of the website, it has more risk. This makes the security of the website more sophisticated.
But, personal websites needs are exposed to very little risk as they do not involve in financial transaction.
The main risk factor involved in the person website is the media. Once the media contents are secured, the risk of the website reduces drastically.
Even though the risk is little SSL certificates and other standard security is provided to avoid future risks.
Security is one of the important factors in every piece of the webpage on the internet.
The amount of security required for a website is directly proportional to the risk it is involved in.
The more the complexity of the website, then it has more risk. This makes the security of the website more sophisticated.
But, personal websites needs are exposed to very little risk as they do not involve in a financial transaction. The main risk factor involved in the person website is the media.
Once the media contents are secured, the risk of the website reduces drastically. Even though the risk is little SSL certificates and another standard security is provided to avoid future risks.
Security for Business Websites
Did you know the more the complexity of the website the more its risk? Injection flaws occur when un-trusted data is sent to a server as part of a command or query.
The attacker’s hostile data can trick the server into executing unintended accessing data without proper authorization.
Application functions related to authentication and session management are often implemented incorrectly, allowing attackers to compromise on passwords, keys, or session tokens, or to exploit other implementation flaws to assume other users’ identities temporarily or permanently.
Security mis-configuration is the most commonly seen issue. Not only must all operating systems, frameworks, libraries, and applications be securely configured, but they must be patched or upgraded in a timely fashion.
Components for Personal Websites
These days, creative professionals often treat their websites as their portfolios, where they collect their work in a way that makes it easy for hiring managers to see their chops.
If you’re a designer, artist, photographer, or the like, you should be doing the same.
Testimonials from people you’ve worked with within the past can be a great way to make you look even more impressive, especially if they’re from well-respected professionals in the field.
Also link to author pages on different websites you contribute to or sites you’ve helped build. Link to places you’re quoted as an expert.
Whatever it is, your site is a great way to bring your scattered web presence together.
Components for Business Websites
A well-organized design is the basis of all business websites. The responsiveness of the website on all screen sizes is a very important factor as most of the users view them on mobile screens.
The Navigation menu is the next important factor and it gives the user the direction to navigate throughout the website.
The call to action buttons are should be placed in appropriate places to generate interactions with the website.
The contact details should be visible and it should contain all the required information to connect with you.
On-site blogging is a beautiful way to express your expertise in your business and tell them your achievements from time to time.
Social proof gives more authority to the website as well as creates more confidence in your clients.
Search engine optimization is a key factor in feeding the search engine robots with the required information about your website to generate organic traffic.
Cost for Personal Websites
The cost of personal websites is very cheap compare to business websites. Not only the development cost is low, but the shared hosting services also give them a fair advantage over cost and space.
The cost of the websites will vary according to the design specification and the intended amount of traffic it can handle. Generally, these websites will have less than a hundred visits per day and the server load is very little.
Cost for Business Websites
Business websites cost multiple times than a personal website. The reasons for the major price tag are server cost and development cost.
The business websites cannot be hosted on shared hosting servers as they cannot handle large traffic of visitors. The virtual private server or cloud hosting mostly gives impressive result for these websites.
They also need huge memory to store lots of information which shared hosting never offers. The development has to be monitored by experts and strict quality control to be done before the launch to avoid embarrassing situations in future.
As the employment of a large number of people makes the cost of the project more expensive.