Sometimes, the pressure to begin a new online project makes one rush things a little in the website creation process. Once you start to work with Neosites and choose your webpage layout, you immediately jump into the world of web design. The first step is to edit your homepage with the goal of making it as esthetically pleasing and eye catching as possible. It is important to understand that the key to a successful website does not lie only in the esthetics. The correct way to create and set up your secondary pages is just as important. Showing the right content in the right context will guide your visitors through the website, and a happy visitor is a visitor that keeps coming back.

Neosites has 12 different types of modules, or secondary pages, for you to use in your website.

-Contents: use this to your advantage by including corporate text and general information in your site alongside images and video.

-Newsfeeds: you can add texts and images in newsfeed format to keep your page up to date.

-Image gallery: allows you to add images organized into folders with a title and description so you can display photos, designs, etc.

-Product catalog: this is a very useful tool to show products for sale online. You can even activate a shopping cart and an e-commerce system.

-Blog: will allow you make periodical updates on various themes to maintain your website up to date with interesting topics for you and your visitors.

-Videos: watch videos from Youtube right from your website. Organize them into different folders.

-Downloads album: allows you store your files in folders with a description so that visitors to the site can find them for download.

-Forms: this is a very useful tool for getting information about your users, subscriptions to newsletters or courses they may be taking, getting a quote, etc. Your visitors only need to fill out the required fields and send you the completed form.

-Contact: this is a fundamental tool to add to your site being that from here you will be able to receive queries from your visitors. You will be able to include your contact information so that visitors can get in touch with you by filling out a form that even includes a thank you note.

-Forums: is a useful tool for generating discussions and debates over a variety of areas of intrest for you and your visitors.

-FAQs (frequently asked questions): get all the most commonly asked inquiries about your website out of the way and in one place.

-Friends links: with friends links you can add links with images and descriptions to your friends sites thereby swapping advertising and links.

It is important to understand that it is not necessary to include all modules in your site. To know which secondary pages to include, it is key to know where you want your site to point, what you want to achieve and how to convey this to your visitors. That is why we will discus the correct choice of secondary pages and the content that it should display. Lets check this example out:

An interior design company chose a layout that emphasizes image and design over text. They also added the logo of their brand taking into account the colors and theme of the site. When we examine the direction and goal of the site, we understand the ‘why’ behind their choice in secondary pages. As we mentioned earlier, Harbour Design is an firm that specializes in furniture and interior design and they will always push their products in a certain direction because they know that their visitors are interested in decorating their home or office. This is why there are two image galleries (Projects and works), a catalogue of products (Products), two pages for content with information about the company (Business and services), and a contact page (Contacts). Clearly we can see how the goal of the site has determined the choice of secondary pages.

Some useful advice for everyone:

-Understand that it is not necessary to include all the modules into your site and that the same module can be used more than once.

-Organize your secondary pages logically to simplify navigating within your site.

-Don’t make the titles of your secondary pages too long, that way they will fit nicely into the menu.

-If all of your secondary pages do not fit into your site, or if you do not wish some to be accessible, remember that you can leave them as inactive and link them to the images of your homepage, the texts of your homepage or other secondary pages.

-Remember to always use the contact page so that your visitors will be able to contact you.

Don’t waste more time! Put this advise into practice to improve your website. And, as you already know, any questions you can post here or go directly to our Help Center.

Lot’s of luck!

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