Planning and creating a website is fun but organizing thoughts and getting ideas onto paper is more difficult.

This website planning tutorial guide has been created to assist anyone with limited website (development) experience, basic planning concepts for the creation of a new website.

As in most cases, careful and well thought-out planning leads to a higher probability of success of any venture which results in less reliance on luck.

Planning the launch of a new website is no different. The success of any website will have been planned and thus, designed accordingly.

The website planning tutorial presented here, is broken down into several key steps which when followed through, will give you a better and clearer idea of what it you want to achieve and ways you are going to achieve it. Although planning can be quite complex, this guide has been simplified to highlight the more relevant areas that one should consider when a decision has been made to create a website.

This particular tutorial does not explain actual web design coding principles (the process of getting ideas from paper into actual markup of web pages that form your website); design work follows the planning process.

Once you have worked through all the steps, you can better prepare and confidently establish a website plan which will form the blueprint of your new website.

If you are going to hire a web designer or web developer to create your website, presentation of a well thought-out plan on paper will convey confidence in your understanding of your requirements and will lead to minimal confusion in the creation phase of your website.

1. Purpose - Defining the purpose of your new website is an important first step.
2. Goals - A successful website is only measured by the goals of it.
3. Theme analysis - The importance of a focused theme for your new website is critical.
4. Theme conception - Theme analysis to conception for a hypothetical website.
5. Theme structure - Exploring site structuring ideas within our theme.
6. Target audience - Knowing who it is we have created this website for.
7. Web content - What is it and why is it so important?
8. Website content development - Developing website content to benefit your target audience.
9. Web page content - Writing content for a web page.
10. Website design style - Styling considerations and how to present content to your audience.
11. Web design budget - Knowing how much capital you can commit to for launch.
12. Website planning summary - Website planning summarized.
13. Website planning worksheet - Printable planning worksheet.

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