An Overview of the Steps To Create a Successful Site

Whether you choose to hire a web designer to build your website or do it yourself, you’ll be faced with a number of options and choices. Here is an overview of the topics I’ve discussed or will be discuss in other articles.

Planning Your Website

1. why do you want a website?
2. how will your website fit into your marketing plan?
3. what types of visitors do you want to attract?
4. what do they expect to find on your site?
5. what actions do you want them to take?
6. what are your competitors doing?
7. what features should the website include?
8. What domain name should you use?

Designing Your Site

1. what types of designs do you like?
2. which colors and images should you use?
3. what content should you prepare?
4. how should you organize the site content?
5. what navigation structure should you use?
6. what technology should you use?
7. how should you optimize your website so search engines index your content?

Maintaining Your Site

1. how will you update your site’s content
2. how will you measure the effectiveness of your website

As you can see, there’s a lot of planning initially before your first designs are created.

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