What is a Functional Website?

More Than Just Beautiful site, a functional website is about UX, User Experience. It is not about stuffing your website with load of information, it is how you deliver the message and encourage your visitors to respond to it. Have you encountered abstract websites, full of unique aesthetics but you do not know how to navigate thru it? Or have you encountered websites with full of content but you can’t find what you need? These are examples of non-functional websites that frustrates your visitors and making them leave at the first glance of the site.

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Gaming Rigz PH: Single Product Page

The main function of your website is to provide what the visitor needs, which is Information, regardless of whether your objective of having a website is getting sales, boosting credibility, showcasing portfolio, recruiting a new team member, etc.

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Slimmers World: Free Trial Form

For instance, a functional website for lead generation, should have information that clearly explains why people should choose your products or services, it should have a way for your target prospects to give you their contact details. And it can also have a live chat functionality to answer questions from your prospects.

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High6: Careers Application Form

Another example is a functional website for recruitment, it should clearly show how people can apply to your company, it should allow applicants to upload their resume, and lastly it should be easy for you or the Human Resource team to collect and organize all the applicants’ profile.

Must Have Functionality

At the least your website must have the following functionality.

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Responsive Design

There are certain functionality that all websites must have, one of which is it should be mobile responsive, it means the website looks good in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. As you may know mobile users are increasing each day, you would want your website to be mobile friendly.

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Content Management System

Another functionality that is equally important is, it must have an easy to use content management system for updating website content, and this will encourage your team to post new activities often in your website. Google loves websites that updates regularly.

Here are some other functionalities that you can have in your website, depending on your objective.

Pinas.com Adaptive Mobile Design
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Adaptive Mobile Design

A totally different design and layout of your website when viewed in mobile devices.

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Mega Menu

Shows a big submenu with pictures, text and multi-columns content to present more complex items inside of a top level menu.

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Grid Type Design

The elements of the website aligned perfectly to a grid using blocks and cards as containers for each individual elements of the page.

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Variants

Product sub types or variant that has individual control of the sizes, colors, SKUs, prices, stock quantity and other attributes.

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Icon Animation

Catch the attention of your users and increase the user experience by implementing animations on icons.

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Free Trial

Give Free Trial access to your customers, complete with email notifications and unique code generator that can be used to verify trial members.

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Advance Filtering

Sophisticated filtering of products or services that you offer to easily narrow down what the customers are looking for.

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Online Selling

Sell your products or services online. Complete with inventory management, order tracking, and secured payment methods.

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Hotel Booking Engine

Allows visitors to book and pay their preferred room on their chosen arrival and departure date with ease. Each rooms have their own different bed sizes, views, amenities and prices.

Bares and Estrellas Catalog Type Website
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Catalog Type

Shows a catalog of your products without selling them. This will allow visitors to browse through your products and view details about them and later on purchase on your physical store. This type of website is also eCommerce ready which just means, it can be converted to an online store as soon as you’re ready.

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Landing Page

A standalone web page that is useful for lead generation, marketing, conversion or some ad campaign for your new product or service.

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Newspaper

A type of website that provides online news reports, articles and other information about current events that covers wide variety of specific fields or general topics.

Forum Functionality Use for Members Area
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Forum

An online discussion area of your site which provides a place for your visitors to discuss your products, hold conversations and ask questions directly to your admins.

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Video Banner

Add a video as the background of a banner for enhanced user experience and to give a clear and engaging way of introducing what the website and your business is about.

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Downloadable Files

Downloadable PDF files from your site such as brochures, flyers, articles, reports, or invoices. Useful when you have lots of information that you want your customers to be able to read even when offline.

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Before & After Photo

Compare two photos using an interactive slider that you drag left and right to view the overlapping photos, and clearly see the differences in them.

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Fix Screen Design

Full screen display of the page that fits the content to any screen sizes while maintaining the same readability and functionality.

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Instagram Live Feed

Leverage your business’ social influence or brand presence by integrating an Instagram social media feeds on your website.

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Facebook Live Feed

Keep your users updated with you directly on your site by integrating Facebook Live Feed.

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Animated Banner

Whether its a slider or a normal hero image, we can add animations to specific elements of the website banner.

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Event Management

List up your upcoming events or activities with venue, organizers, location and other important details. Users will also be able to book into these events.

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Advanced Contact Form

This type of contact form provides a you with multiple pages, conditional results, calculations, and more.

In a nutshell, a functional website means it is useful to you and your visitors. Learn more about High6 Web development prices.