The most important element of an institution or a person appearing as an institution in search engines is the website. Websites that existed before social media became so widespread still maintain their power. In our previous article, we emphasized that social media accounts are almost a person’s identity. Websites reflect the vision, mission and, above all, the showcase of individuals or institutions. Expressing yourself on social media accounts is limited. You can only use the options that the social media platform offers you. But there is no limit on a website specific to you.

What does it mean that there is no limit on the website?

You can use and share as many pages as you want, as many texts as you want, as many images as you want, as many categories as you want, as many buttons or images as you want. For example, you can use up to 140 characters at a time in a twitter tweet. On Facebook and Instagram, this limitation is a bit more, but limited. But there is no limit on your website. You can use thousands of characters. In summary, you can include unlimited content on a website.

So how can you host and deliver this unlimited content?

In fact, the answer to this question depends on how you express yourself and what you want. A professional web designer listens to what you want to tell people, takes note of your expectations and prepares the appropriate plan for you. Your part is to create these expectations. First of all, you need to determine the purpose of opening a website. You need to be sure why you need a website. If a website is for people to reach you at a corporate level or do you want to sell a product that you produce? Such questions need to be answered.

What kind of web design is right for me?

Users nowadays like simplicity. Also, search engines like Google have expectations about the design of a website. These types of search engines require a user-friendly interface. In other words, there are basic criteria such as not being misled by a user who visits the site, easily accessing the right information, fast loading of the website and up-to-date software. Naturally, we need to comply with these criteria, as we need to be friendly to search engines. Otherwise, search engines will not show us on the homepage. In fact, we have basically answered the answer to the question in the title. Other than that, you are unlimited and free. You can use the color you want, the image you want, the graphic you want as much as you want. As long as you have a user-friendly website.

Today, social media has become a kind of identity. Unfortunately, we can use this identity for good or bad. Individuals are updating this identity that they carry in their pockets moment by moment. How Does? They constantly update their brains by reading, seeing and hearing billions of information on the internet.

The role of social media in this update is not similar to research on the internet. Because we search in search engines to get information. On social media, this is very minimal. Already, a lot of data that comes before us in social media comes from keywords. When you search for a sentence consisting of 5-6 words on social media platforms, you may not come across any more logical data. But when we search for a word, thousands of data appear. This is because we are not actually in control.

What does it mean that we don’t have control? Companies that write social media platforms have created a keyword search-based software. When you search for a keyword, the system presents the data in which that keyword is tagged. This is proof that it is not something that is in our control. We see, read and hear the data presented to us. We don’t actually get what we want. Even data that we are not interested in follow.

At this stage, the importance of the use of social media emerges. We need to analyze what we use social media for. Is it to learn useful information shared on social media or to have fun? Having a good time? All of them? We can replicate these goals. In summary, no matter what we use social media for, we receive data that is presented to us beyond our control. This instantly updates our brains for good or bad. In order for social media not to affect our identity negatively, we should limit our use and stay away from data that we are not related to.

Instagram, one of the most popular social media applications in our country, has started testing its new feature in Turkey. The features that will come to the platform that most of us visit every day are eagerly awaited by the world. Future features will be trialled with a portion of the audience before they are publicly available. This time, Turkey is among the lucky countries, and the new feature of Instagram Stories has started to be tested in our country.

While we’ve been vertically scrolling Feed posts on Instagram, the reverse has been true since the Stories feature was introduced. Your stories may still appear horizontally on Instagram. However, it seems that for some users residing in Turkey, Stories are now scrolled vertically as in Flow. Realizing this feature, a Turkish user named Digital Marketing Specialist Ahmet Balat showed the new look of the stories with the story he shared.