Available Site Features

There is a dizzying array of 'bells and whistles' one can build into a web site. Here is a partial list to give you some ideas.

• add-to-favorites button
• alt text for graphics - help blind visitors and search engines
• animated logo
• animation (gif, rollover, DHTML, flash)
• audio clips, effects - radio ads, for example
• automatically updating headlines
• banner ads
• blog page - easily updateable online journal
• breadcrumbs - helps you know where you are in a site
• change format styles button
• columns; boxes, other layout formats
• contact-us form
• customer feedback/order form
• description meta tag - the text people will see in a search engine listing
• distinctive, practical, attractive look and feel
• email links
• forum - allows anyone in a public or private group to leave messages for all, and respond to existing ones
• FTP feature for site - allows clients to upload files to your site which are too big for email
• graphics – created and/or simply optimized
• graphs
• 'guess what?' notice to folks using non-compliant browser on how to upgrade, as they can’t see all the features of a standards-compliant site
• guest book / message board
• headings, content, quotations – i.e. semantic structure
• hidden help for search engines (meta tags, etc.)
• interactive animation
• links to other pages/media
• logo or title
• meta tags – include hidden but important information for search engines, including copyright, date, keywords, etc.
• navigation links, possibly animated
• PDF files (printable by most computers)
• privacy statement - let visitors know what you plan to do with information they give you
• rich media (interactive still and animation integrated with video and text.)
• rotating content - changes on a regular basis
• search field
• search site feature
• secure email system
• send-to-a-friend button
• shopping cart system - for purchase of items from an online catalogue
• site maps - help people and search engines find all the pages on your site
• style sheets - centralized formating instructions for your site text and layout
• tables - for data presentation and sometimes for layout
• text - crisp, informative, error-free
• title - clarifies the subject of a page, helps search engine index your site
• updatable table data - dynamically changes to reflect new content of a database
• user-updatable page content
• version control - redirect for other languages, browsers, etc.
• video
• virtual tours - for example, slideshows and 360-degree panoramas