Website Planning Guide
- Step #1: Analyze current marketing and branding
- Step #2: Discover business goals and purpose
- Step #3: Determine your budget
- Step #4: Choose a domain name that reflects your business
- Step #5: Determine crucial team players
- Step #6: Research competitive sites
- Step #7: Conduct buyer research
- Step #8: Create a value proposition (Makes your site more attractive!)
- Step #9: Create your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
- Step #10:Consider your desired site features (What works best for you and your customers?)
- Step #11: Implement the right CMS for your business
- Step #12: Be keyword savvy
- Step #13: Dive deep into content strategy
- Step #14: Website Structure: SEO-friendly URLs
- Step #15: Focus on the structure of the pages using wireframe
- Step #16: Create a professional logo
- Step #17: Design with multiple elements
- Step #18: Test site across all devices and browsers
- Step #19: Develop a growth-driven design based on real data
- Step #20: Create a wishlist for future site enhancements
Creating a website is a complex endeavor to embark on. Every change, every added functionality, every addition of content increases the workload, time and expense of a website, but all of that can be managed with a website plan. Creating a website plan saves you countless headaches down the road.
In this website planning guide, we walk you through planning, designing, and creating your first (or fifty-first!) website for success. Not only will this guide help you create the website you want, but it will also help build the website your customers desire