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Website design planning:
A quick start
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Having a website design can greatly improve
your online business and your brand image.
It makes your business more accessible
and you can reach more customers who need
your product or your service. But
before you decide to have a website designed
and built for you, consider meditating on
the following website design concepts so
that you can come up with a website plan
that works for you:
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Set website goals and analyze your
project.
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Before you can start
website planning, you must
have a strong idea of what you want to
achieve for your company and where you want
to take it. Business goals must be
concise and certifiable. Your own
goals can create a unique website design
experience not just for you but for your
customers as well.
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Analyze your Website project.
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Next is to analyze your website project.
During this stage, you collaborate with a
website design and development
company
(he or she may be one and the same or you
may work with an entire website design and
development team). They will ask
important questions to aid them in the
initial website design and development
stages Do not be alarmed as these are
relevant to your website’s completion. This
process also gives you a more focused view
on how your website design will work for
you.
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The website design plan.
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Now that you have defined your website
design project, the next stage deals with
the task of delegating which activities
should be accomplished by particular members
of the website design and development team.
It also outlines project completion
timelines and deliverables, to give you
control and a bird’s ever view on your
website design project’s progress.
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check you competition website project.
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It is also advisable to check what your
competitors are doing online. Try to
search for companies with the same product
and/or service as you do. Take note of what
they have done well and what they have done
badly. Doing this eliminates
experimentation and allows you to focus on
areas that need improvement. Just
remember: NEVER COPY CONTENT.
You should only look at other sites to
get inspired, not to duplicate.
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Website designing/ structuring.
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Putting information on your website is not
as easy as typing what you want to say then
placing it on your website.
Identifying which information to use,
organizing them and labeling content and
specific functions of the website for easy
browsing, searching and navigation is called
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INFORMATION DESIGN.
Careful consideration of information
to showcase on your website is very
important. This aspect of website
design is also called INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE.
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Website navigation/ website sitemap.
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Every website should have good navigational
design, this allows website visitors to get
to the information they want in the shortest
possible amount of time. Always
remember to follow the
three click rule:
important information should never be
more than three clicks or pages away.
At this stage, you can create a
sitemap - the graphical representation of
how your pages are linked together. A
good sitemap allows users to easily jump
from one page to the next. The sitemap also
lets you create a wire frame - a simple
layout of your website design detailing
where to put information and features, this
way you can initially see how your website
will look like and determine which areas
need improvement.
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Website design and Development process.
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Design and development is the final stage of
website design and development.
Initial mock ups are drafted and
presented to you by your design/development
team. Iterations and changes based on
your goals are implemented. After
selecting a particular website design,
development follows. Website design is
converted to HTML and is checked for
consistency and browser compatibility.
The converted website design is sent
to be programmed using code and/or script
needed to interpret the design on the
internet. Finally, content is written,
edited, optimized for search engine ranking
then placed on the website for your viewers
to see.
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