Hey y'all.

 

Trying to decide whether to have a clients' site a one page scroller or multiple pages. It's a simple minimalist site with a brief product page, about page and a contact form. It's not image heavy, so no problem with loading issues (currently no plugins either). Are there any benefits to using a single page? I've created client sites in the past but found it a little tricky to monitor what viewers were looking at as is wasn't evident if they were using the navigation or manually scrolling. My scope of SEO work doesn't go beyond the initial build so I'd like something that the client can build upon should they expand. If I go 'one page' I'd assume I'd need a decent plugin for infinite scrolling.

 

As always, any thoughts or experience shared would be very welcome.

This is always a conundrum for the modern developer looking to keep up with the runaway trends in website creation. It's certainly one that I've spent considerable time pondering.

 

Well, you've stated that it's a minimalist site with little imagery, which lends an advantage to using one-page. As you probably know it creates a more seamless and somewhat thrilling browsing experience than simply hopping from page to page. Some people claim having a single page scrolling site affects the loading time, but I disagree with this; provided it uses external files and the amount of images are limited then it should work fine. I remember, however, trying to load a website that was a seamless scrolling site with a massive background image at least 3000px in height and it never finished downloading. His connection was around 2mbps, which is pretty low, but it gives you an idea of how a low-end connection struggles with massive backgrounds often seen on single-page sites.

 

Hope that helps, somehow. Good luck with it.

As per my view Just for branding purpose you can use one page scrolling. But if you want to make pure profesional website then multipage is best.

Cheers for that. Yeah, it should be relatively fast loading. There isn't a background image, using font icons (finally) and the images are small in size. I don't want to over complicate the site so much, so it's won't need anything like parallax scrolling so I think overall scripts will be next to non-existant. I've made one page sites that have been slow in the past, but that's mostly plugins and larger images and tomfoolery.

 

I need to tighten up the design anyway and whether it's one page or not won't make the difference yet, but it helps with the planning. The comment I had already was "it looks like a Word doc". The behind the scenes were more complex than that, but I need to ensure that there is some appeal to it. Back to PS for another couple hours..

As per my view Just for branding purpose you can use one page scrolling. But if you want to make pure profesional website then multipage is best.

 

What do you mean by branding purpose? Sorry, but that sounds incredibly vague. I don't understand what you mean. There are an equal amount of professional sites out there that are either single or multipage. HappyCog is one of many.

Personally I don't like one page sites, but if there isn't a great deal of content and imagery it may be the best option.

Personally I don't like one page sites, but if there isn't a great deal of content and imagery it may be the best option.

 

Do you know if there is much of a difference in terms of SEO? I'm currently opting with the multipage site with a bit more cowbell.

Do you know if there is much of a difference in terms of SEO? I'm currently opting with the multipage site with a bit more cowbell.

 

Absolutely, but it can be avoided. There's a good post here about it.

Personally, if It's just a product or two I prefer a one page site. Rather than having to click around.

 

Also, from a marketing perspective I assume a one page site would be better, as you would be able to easily lead the customer from knowing about the product to buying the product (I'm not too sure if that sentence makes sense!).

Absolutely, but it can be avoided. There's a good post here about it.

 

Thank you - that's was a good read. Thought you wrote it what with the car image

 

I'm going to do is create a multipage site but include the landing page/intro with the about page (that way I can target keywords that are relevant about the client) then have separate pages for their products and contact.

 

Something I've always struggled with is setting heights for individual pages for one page scrollers. I've done it in the past but have had to manually alter them in the media queries, creating more work. The effect I was originally going for was the vondutch.com style. Nothing to do with the content or parallax effect (I like Von Dutch but I find this site too messy and gimmicky). On a super quick inspection, they set manually set their heights and backgrounds, but it doesn't scale well at all.

 

 

Personally, if It's just a product or two I prefer a one page site. Rather than having to click around.

 

Also, from a marketing perspective I assume a one page site would be better, as you would be able to easily lead the customer from knowing about the product to buying the product (I'm not too sure if that sentence makes sense!).

 

That does make sense! I agree. I don't want to follow trends but at the same time, not looking to set a new one Just want something super simple, super easy.

 

Thanks for all the advice.