Website Content
Website content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations.
In Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville write, "We define content broadly as 'the stuff in your Web site.' This may include documents, data, applications, e-services, images, audio and video files, personal Web pages, archived e-mail messages, and more. And we include future stuff as well as present stuff." -- Wikipedia
Certainly, we here at RE: are not mind readers and posses no mystic ESP powers. We won't automatically know what our clients want their website to display or say to their marketplace. Website contents are the nitty-gritty parts that you, as our client, must provide to us, so that RE: may incorporate it into your website in the areas and manner that you require.
"Content Is King" -- Bill Gates, 1996
With real estate, everyone has heard the saying, "Location, location, location". In websites change that to, "Content, content, content".
Most web designers know from experience, that no matter how excellent the website design is, the web content is surely the most important and that it can make or break your website.
What is going to make your website stand out from the rest of the crowd, your competition and, most importantly, produce positive results for you ?
Your website content needs to attract your marketplace, engage them, gain their trust and ultimately coax them to take the actions that you would wish them to. Only then do you truly attain a comprehensive, unique and successful website presence.
Website content is so important that one should seriously consider hiring a professional copywriter or a SEO savvy web firm to assist in the writing of their web content.
RE: can format and tweak this information, to make it pretty and readable, but, it is ultimately our clients task to give us this basic content, or at a minimun, some basic ideas, as RE: also offers copywriting services. Give us your ideas, needs and wants, and RE: will make your website look and express, exactly what you want it to.