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Website Design
This is the first step and the most important. You need to make sure you know what you want your customers to know. Whatever the information you want your customer's to know wil need to be on the website you're building or will have built for you. That information is your #1 priority. Get all of it, from propaganda, spec's, contacting you, and even info about your company. Now, once you have all this info, you will need to organize it for ease of access. How you're going to organize all this will need to be simple and easy to find on the website. The other thing you'll need to remember is the cost, which will go up as the complexity does. Things that move, or offer interaction wil cost more Based on the amount or type of movement or interaction. Also, you must remember your client base, as in the tech base, or what connection speed they are using. Movement or interaction will take up more bandwidth, and for lowtech users, it will take longer to access critical sales points of the site if it is taken up with a huge add and a bunch of flashy popups. Just don't over do it here, try to keep the files over 15kb to a complete minimum. If you can, when you need to use more than one image on the site, but in different areas you are saying something about the same thing you have an image for, and need an image, try to reuse an image if you possibly can. But for the most part, don't use images or animations. Stick to text if you can.
Your color scheme should be congruent, or match, the rest of your site. All the colors should blend with each other to flow or blend with the other pages or images on the site. Also, your info should do the same. If you have info on one page that relates to another, you should make sure that you put a link on each page to one another with the link explaining their relationship, whether it be by mouse over(which means holding the mouse over that area of the webpage or over that word or group of words), or by text entry(which somewhere by the link or the link itself there will be text describing the link). What you should do is think of what exactly you want your clients to see first. You'll want to make sure that whatever they see first, whether it be a video, specific info, or whatever, you need to make sure it confronts them with an enticing message to keep them at your website to possibly make a sale. You will need to make a navigation menu/set-of-buttons/area to make sure any possible or actual-clientelle are going to be able ot navigate all info you have on your website easily. All info you have will need to be grouped, which means keep them together based on relative info. Once you've grouped the info, you will need to name each group based on the relative info of each group.
One of the best ways to do the grouping and naming is to first check out other sites related, or somewhat related, to your own website to be. DONT STEAL. Make sure to check everything on those sites from the mouseover content, to the info provided and even the nifty exras provided. If you have to, check other sites out there, and definately take notes on anything you find clever or something you would want on your site, it helps to know what is possible to have on a website, or at least what's not possible.
You really do need to know your boundaries, so find out your limits on the possible and impossible options. You will really need to look at the competition to find ideas and some form of structure for your website. Now that you've all the info together and grouped, your structure, ideas, and possible avenues of approach, you need to develop your website. From here, you need to go to developement of your site, don't worry, there is no coding involved in any of this, so continue reading if you want.
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