Prepare your materials and we'll maek it live on the web! At this point it is safe to assume that you've perhaps reached the following conclusions: you want to establish a presence on the web and you have at least a rough idea of the information you want on the site.
Additionally, and perhaps most importantly you want your money to be well spent and your efforts to pay off.
Make a Website Map
Grab a pencil, some blank paper and list all the items you wish to have on your site. When your are done grab another blank piece of paper and in the center draw your "home page" then from it all the pages you want to connect to the "home page." Next, you'll want to add pages and content which connects to those pages and so one. Remember the web is multidimesional, that is there is now limit on how the pages can linked between themselves.
This is the most important step you can take. Accurately relating your website's content is a critical because it'll allows for a more timely and accurate development of you site.Perhaps you've seen a website which you really like. Feel free to use its structure as an "outline" for the structure of your site. Otherwise with properly related content you can also leave the creative structure details to me.
*Study conducted by User Interface Engineering. Studied several sites including Disney, CNET, Edmunds and Travelocity to see what impact graphics, design, links and content had on information retrieval by users.
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