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Website Development
Creating a Website is best accomplished in steps. These steps are: plan,
design, code (HTML), upload (FTP), test, promote, and maintain. Each step
has a clear objective and definable outputs. A quick review of the steps:
 Plan your Website
Register your own domain name and find a hosting company to host your web site.
Define the purpose of your site. Plus, your target audience, strategy, objectives.
Be able to answer these questions:
- What type of audience do you want to appeal to?
- What mood/style do you want to create on your site (corporate, personal, comic, pastel?
- What 3 web sites appeal to you and what in specific you like about them?
Website Planning Checklist
Design your Website
Follow basic design principles and writing guidelines. Select your images,
midi files and links for each page. Get all your photographs and images ready for the web site.
Get a professional logo designed for your pages.
Create a standard header and footer navigation scheme for your Website. Create the text files for each of
your site's pages. Remember content is king. Ask for testimonials from your clients, past and present.
Check out our design tips.
Code your Website
Use a form wizard, HTML templates, HTML editor, or generate it manually.
Add a standard header, footer, navigation bar; plus links, images and
sound files collected for your web pages, and your site is done.
If you need help go to our references section.
Upload your Website
Select a file transfer protocol, FTP, program, transfer your files
to a host and your site can be seen via the Internet.
Test your Website
Validate, spell check and verify your internal/external links using on-line
validation services.
Promote your Website
Create meta data for your site, register your site with the top search
engines and directories, plus don't forget to promote your site off-line.
Visit our section on website promotion to find
out more.
Maintain your Website
When you reach the last step, maintain, the
process repeats itself - only on a smaller scale. As a Webmaster, when
you create a Website, your job is never done!
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