Things to Think About When Planning Your Website
Creating Your Website
There are many things to think about when planning your website design. The points below give a framework of things to consider when planning your site. Each of these points are covered in detail during your free consultation with Creative Website Solutions.
-- Who is your target audience? Will your site be for the general public? Is there a certain niche group that will view your site such as professionals, photographers, or artists? Do want to sell merchandise on your website?
-- How do you envision the organization of information; how many pages? Think about how many categories your site needs to have, including: a Home page, About Us page, and a Contact Us page. If you sell products, how will they be arranged?
-- Text: Do you have text that already exists in any brochures or other marketing materials? Does your existing text work for your website or should it be rewritten?
-- Visual appearance: Keeping your target audience in mind, decide on some of your graphical elements. You may have logos, artwork or images that you can provide or we can consider creating or purchasing artwork.
-- Are there other websites that you like? When browsing, try to keep a list of other sites that you like and try to note what it is it that you like about them.
-- Forms: Do you need any pages on your website to collect information from your visitors and then automatically have the information forwarded to you in email? Perhaps a Contact form?
-- Ecommerce: Do you want to sell products online with a shopping cart? There are options such as Pay Pal if you are not ready to launch an independent shopping cart system.