Planning and preparation is critical to building an effective, useful, and easy to navigate web site for your business. Below is a general overview of Web site building.

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1 Decide the Purpose of Your Site

• Is it news/information based?
• Is it product based? Are you selling on your site (e-commerce)?
• Is it reference based (databases)?

2 Plan the Content

• Identify and inventory your content (words, pictures, functions).
• What will you say?
• What will the user’s experience be?

3 Find a Host

• Your site needs to be hosted by one of many Web hosting providers.

4 Register the Name of Your Site

• The domain name can be purchased through your hosting provider.

5 Create the Site Architecture

• Determine what pages you need on your site and how they will link.

6 Design it

• Create the look and feel and style of your site. Consider your brand.

7 Build Your Website Pages

• Use HTML (the building block of a web page).
• Use CSS (the building block for how a page looks).
• Use Web Page editors.

8 Publish Your Website

• Move the finished pages to the hosting provider.

9 Promote Your Website

Use word of mouth, advertising, email and other tools to promote your site and make sure that your URL is on all communications and correspondence.