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Designing - The Planning
By - Michael Henderson
Your website is your face in the cyberspace. It is your
corporate identity of your business. So by all means it has to be a good one. An
ideal website should be interactive, communicative and user friendly. If you are
planning to design a website for your business, make sure you take all necessary
points before developing and uploading it onto the internet. These points should
be pondered upon in the planning stages so that your website to be what your
customers are looking for. Here are some tips to consider:
Objective
Before you start creating a website, ascertain the purpose of it. Think about
what the primary objective of your website will be. Define the exact goal of the
site before planning the course of action.
The focus of the objective should be
based on the basic requirements of your customers and the way the website plans
to assist them in procuring that. The objective should also define what the
website deliver and what benefits can the users can get. A clear assignment of
purpose will pave the way to achieve the goals. When you define the purpose, you
can identify the target audience and place future milestones and criteria.
Target Audience
The website is a means to attract audiences, before anything else. The prime
purpose of any website is to attract people, make them visitors and then turn
them into customers. Thus, it becomes essential to ascertain the target audience
of your website. Though, the whole world is free and welcome onto the site,
there will be a niche audience that you have to target, as per your business.
Find out who will be visiting your site
the most and tailor the site according to their needs and requirements. The
target audience can widen as you expand your business and add in more verticals
to it. Research out the tastes and preferences of your audience and incorporate
all that you can on the site that they will fancy.
Content
Content is perhaps the most important feature of a website. Content is the king!
Really! And content management is what separates a successful website from the
others. Visitors throng the net for information and the chances that they will
come on the site depends on how relevant your information is for them. When you
have identified your target audience, place content on your website that they
will need. Good content gains you credibility in the online market and gets
earns you the trust of visitors. The organization and evaluations of the content
is an important step in the planning stages.
Make the content on your website short
and crisp. Unnecessary flamboyancy in writing and beating about the bush just
causes the visitors to leave. Make the content informative, easy to read an
attractive so that visitors stay and make use of it.
Compatibility
It is not enough that your website runs well on a particular browser. Make your
website thus that it runs good on majority of web surfers. Making your website
browser-specific will just cause you to lose out on audiences who surfers other
than yours.
Storyboarding
Storyboarding is the final step of website planning. In this you take care of
the purpose, audience and content to design the most suitable and preferable
format for the website that caters to all these elements. In storyboarding, you
make a site map of your website. Storyboarding creates a visual portrayal of the
web pages. It is actually a prototype model for the website that lets you have a
sneak preview of the original one.
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About The Author:
Michael Henderson is a professional
web designer and SEO expert. He has worked on many projects for the World
Wide Web
design company in India and Overseas. His
experience and understanding of web technologies, web applications and search
engines has led WWW standards to make him act as a consultant for clients for
proposing optimal web based solution to back there business needs.
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