So, you want to design your web site?
Your new website all starts with your very own website action plan. Before you even begin you need to ask yourself a few questions:
What website type will work the best for you?
- Do you need a membership site?
- Do your customers need to be able to place orders online?
- Are you looking to distribute an online newsletter?
- Or maybe you need a simple company blog to keep your clients and partners up-to-date about the latest happenings in your industry?
Who is your website going to be designed for?
- Is this website primarily designed for new prospects?
- Current clients?
- Company employees?
- Partners?
What will your traffic sources be?
- How will your visitors be finding you online?
- Will you be advertising online?
- Offline?
- Via email?
What actions constitute success?
- What is the primary goal of your website?
- To have your visitor enter their name and e-mail address?
- To offer a free product?
- To get your visitor to buy your product or service?
- Or to pick up the phone and call you?
Taking the time to carefully answer these questions will enable you to maximize your websites exposure and effecitveness as a tool in your business.
Regarding the website design itself, there are many free applications that can help you create your own website. Pagebreeze is a free WYSIWYG (stands for "what you see is what you get") application can help you to design a basic web site as if you were creating a Word document. (other paid versions like Dreamweaver and Frontpage are more robust WYSIWYG software applications)
There are also website tools online to help you create your own basic website by dragging and dropping simple elements on your page and choosing from a list of pre-selected backgrounds. Here are a few of those free website creator tools:
Squidoo
Webon
Weebly
HubPages
We also have a growing list of free website design tools and tricks at Tools To Make Your Own Website - Top 10 Free Website Tools and Tricks.
For a professional website design for your business, feel free to contact us for a 42-Point Action Plan to get your website design started the right way!
Adam Spiel
www.ProHostManagement.com
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