A lot of websites today look like they’ve been left in the dark for some time and could use a revamp. The rule of thumb is that you should review your site about every two years. Not sure whether your website needs a redesign? I’ve worked hard and long putting together a checklist to help you find out. Here goes, 20 reasons why you might need a new website:
- You can’t find it on Google.
- It makes visitors’ eyes bleed.
- It was designed by your wife’s cousin’s son-in-law’s next-door neighbor.
- It contains a hot links page.
- You can’t remember who built it.
- The colors are faded.
- It was built before the internet was invented.
- You don’t have a website.
- It has a flash intro screen that says “Skip me”.
- Each page opens a new instance of Solitaire.
- It can only be seen on Netscape Navigator.
- It survived Y2K.
- It has a rag sticking out of it.
- It shrunk.
- No one knows who’s hosting it.
- It’s been on the internet so long that it always comes up first in search results.
- The pull-down menus are beginning to sag.
- The source code is table-based.
- It has little relevance to your own business.
- The webmaster looked like this:
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