Nethit is a web design agency from Haarlem specializing in SEO, usability, and web psychology.
We create beautiful websites according to the rules of the trade.
Who doesn’t, you might be thinking… But remember, anyone can call themselves a web designer, it’s an open profession.
The web design industry is still young, which is why there are relatively few rules, standards, or regulations.
And those that do exist are widely ignored. Not out of bad intentions, but simply due to a lack of knowledge and experience.
We see this happen constantly… A large part of our daily work in SEO and usability is improving websites that are hard to find, difficult to use, or problematic.
You can easily avoid such problems by having your website created by a professional with the necessary knowledge and experience.
If you have your website created by us, it will meet the latest standards and guidelines. We also take SEO, usability, and web psychology into account during the design process.
Web design at Nethit goes beyond appearances.
Of course, the appearance of a website matters. A website should look good, but that is a basic requirement, not the end goal.
Ultimately, having a website is about visitors, contact inquiries, quotes, and orders. A website should be findable and generate customers so that your business can grow. To achieve this, a “beautiful” website alone is often insufficient.
A website should also be search engine-friendly, load quickly on mobile devices, contain convincing content, be user-friendly, and, if possible, be easily accessible for people with disabilities.
We offer search engine-friendly web design
If you want to attract visitors, your website needs to be technically sound for search engines and contain the right keywords. The words that people type when searching for a product or service you offer.
We are passionate about SEO and addicted to ranking on Google. That’s why we almost always create search engine-friendly websites.
Before we get started, we research your market and check what your competitors are doing to get found. We analyze the possibilities and conduct thorough keyword research.
This helps us discover what your customers are frequently typing into Google. We incorporate these words into the key elements of your website to ensure quick findability. Your website is therefore built from the ground up to rank on Google!
We create mobile-friendly websites, focus on page load times, and optimize the code for faster performance
Nowadays, nearly half of all search queries are sent via mobile devices. Therefore, it’s only logical that we only create mobile-friendly websites and also pay close attention to your page load times.
We optimize the code where necessary to ensure your website runs smoothly, and we also optimize your assets (images, videos, etc.) for the web before placing them on your site. This ensures that your site looks great and works fast.
We turn visitors into customers through Web Psychology
Web psychology is a field that deals with how people react to websites and how you can influence their decisions. The way your site is designed and the content it contains is crucial for people’s decision-making processes.
When we design your website, we take the basic rules of web psychology into account. This helps convert visitors into customers more quickly. You can rely on professional advice during the design and finishing stages of your site.
We offer web design with usability advice
Usability is a field that focuses on the user-friendliness of websites and other applications. Since we specialize in usability, we can offer valuable advice during the design process. This ensures that you get not only a beautiful website but hopefully also an accessible and user-friendly one.
We create websites that are accessible to people with disabilities, such as the blind and visually impaired
In addition to general user-friendliness, we also consider the WCAG 2.0 guidelines and provide warnings, tips, and advice during the design phase. You don’t always have to follow this advice, but you shouldn’t underestimate it either.
Did you know that nearly 2 percent of the Dutch population was visually impaired or blind in 2010? That’s 320,000 people who have a very different perspective on the internet. Blind people, for example, use a ‘screen reader’ to ‘read’ the internet.
You can imagine that this is quite a challenge on some websites. But the worst part is that screen readers assume that websites are designed according to guidelines, and that’s often not the case. As a result, the internet is not particularly accessible for blind users.
Visually impaired people also experience the internet very differently and face other challenges. To start, not all websites are equally user-friendly, and if you and I have to search for something, it’s practically impossible for someone with low vision.
Many web designers completely disregard this. Ask a web designer directly about WCAG 2.0 guidelines, and most of them have never heard of them. We find that very difficult to see.
We believe that the internet should be accessible to EVERYONE. That’s why we place a high value on usability and also on the WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
