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by Maneet Puri April 21, 2011

Though website designing is a broader term; however the most common segregation of website is done into Corporate websites and E commerce Websites. As witnessed, mostly the clients get confused as what type of website they wish to get design for promoting their businesses on WWW. They undergo a bewilderment to choose the right web design for their effective business growth. Below mentioned are some of the ways that can help clients to make better decisions about how they can proceed with their project.

Corporate Websites

Recognized as Informative Websites, Corporate Websites as the name suggest are absolutely professional and corporate in look. These kind of websites provide detailed information to browsers pertaining to what the company is all about, its products or services and the way prospective customers can connect to the company to avail its services. Generally these websites provide comprehensive information about the brand and stretch up to 20 pages(may be less). With deep insight into a company through corporate websites, you can magnetize customers to buy the product or service, without there being the need of direct promotion like e-commerce websites. Such websites has an informative tinge that educates the customer about the solutions company offer. With the help of elements like newsletter sign-up or video downloads, ask for a quote feature etc, they can make customers purchase their services or products. Corporate Websites can be either totally customized or template based as per the requirement of clients.

In addition, if there is no need of making changes quite often, then a tailor-made site would be a right choice. Designers can add desired artful elements and make it more and more creative to give that unique look to the website. On the other hand, if a client wants to make alterations frequently by adding articles, or information pertaining to products or services, then adding a CMS is perfect as it will allow easy client navigation and changing different aspects as and when required.

Ecommerce Websites

Another type of websites that are highly designed for businesses are e-commerce websites. E-Commerce websites are generally designed for the purpose of selling of products or services and that too direct promotion. Designing these kind of websites is a bit complicated as they are written in PHP language. In contrast to informative websites, these product selling websites includes hundreds of pages. These websites are template based and have only few features to offer. Unarguably, this make the task of website designers easy when clients declared to get a website similar to their competitors. This saves a lot of time, when a client knows what they want exactly. However, the problem arises when the designers have to explain to their clients that the features they want them to incorporate on their website will require them to shed out few more bucks out of their pockets. Such features have to be included at some additional cost.

If at all the client is willing to put in some extra bucks in the designers bag, then surely they can get a feature-enriched website that can do wonders for their business. With small scale businesses, you just need to consider what features are more important to incorporate so that the website designing cost falls within your budget. These e-commerce sites can be customized, so you can add the desired features anytime in life as per your business requirements.