What should you look for in a good website? Talk to different people and you'll likely get different answers.
As part of your basic website design, you may want to link your site to certain 'authority' or 'hub' sites, for your industry. There is a two-fold reason for this - those links will help search engines to better index your site (figure out who you are and where to put you), and by associating your website with important sites, you will begin to gain pagerank.
We, at Creative Synergy, would suggest, though, that if you operate a commercial website, the main determinants of whether you have a good website must always be whether that website generates clients and/or customers and whether it sells products and/or services.
Ultimately, good website design and the likelyhood of visitor conversion comes down to ease of interactivity and navigability. Open Source Web Design is a collection of web designs submitted by the community that anyone can download free of charge!
If you are serious about your website, there are several webmaster resources sites that we have found indispensible for finding the free webmaster tools and educational background you need to get the most from your website. IWA-HWG (International Webmaster's Association - HTML Writer's Guild), a professional trade association, is the industry's recognized leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals. IWA's accomplishments include the industry's first guidelines for ethical and professional standards, Web certification and education programs, specialized employment resources, and technical assistance to individuals and businesses.
SEO Chat website provides a more robust resource for search engine marketers and business owners than anyone else on the web. With search engine news and new optimization information published daily, SEO Chat is highly regarded, read, and linked to by people all over the internet. Also helping online businesses and entrepreneurs to get the most out of their websites, Dev Mechanic is the webmaster's toolbox. It brings together the best in marketing, promotion, web programming, and administration articles released anywhere. The purpose behind the Search Engine Roundtable is to report on the most interesting threads taking place at the SEM (Search Engine Marketing) forums. The mission of the webmaster resources site is to provide a single source for the reader to visit to locate the most interesting threads covered at the SEM forums.
