Website planning summary

Having a great website can only be effective through proper planning. Appropriate planning is fundamental to every website undertaking of practically any nature.

To know why you are having this website and what you want it to achieve, are the two most important steps of the website conceptual stage. These steps are all about defining and setting a focus for your intended site.

It may seem obvious to you but your visitor has to know exactly what your site is about. Having a well defined theme reinforces the focus of your site.

Knowing who your site is for, we can set about providing quality content (i.e. generally textual information) that our likely audience will find beneficial. Content is the very substance (essence) of a website and it's without doubt the most important area of any site.

It's no use however just to slap anything down to fill pages on your site. Your web page content must be well written, functional and styled to ensure its audience will find your site, highly valuable to them.

Having a website designed and operating online doesn't need to be complex or costly but we do have to consider a preliminary to know possible options before we start. It's a matter of first deciding what you need over what you want.

Once you have decided to start the web design planning process, it must be understood proper planning does take time. It's vital to start promptly to compile a meaningful plan for presentation to your web designer for evaluating and estimating.

I hope you have followed this website planning tutorial guide through and have found it beneficial in helping you get started on planning for a new website.

While planning may seem overwhelming, help is never far away at Web-Designz. Whatever your reason, we welcome your input. Together - we'll make it happen!

You can use our printable website planning worksheet here to further help you in the website planning process.