Thinking about your first website?

Are you looking to create your first website? Our short presentation will help you plan your website properly:

Transcript

Slide 1: HELP I NEED A WEBSITE!

No idea where to start? 7 steps to understanding!

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New to websites?

• Bewildered by too much information?
• Need a starting point?

Here come 7 easy steps!

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7 Steps to a Website You Real Free Websites

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1. SET YOUR GOAL

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Decide the overall objective of your website  Informational?  Storefront? Service-provision? Blog? Something else?

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2. TARGET YOUR MARKET

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Identify and Focus on Your Target Market

• Who does your website’s goal target?
• Profile your market as accurately as possible – this is important in deciding the tone, content and style of the website
• Ensure your website’s goal compliments your markets’ objectives – you may need to reassess your goal

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3. WRITE YOUR CONTENT

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Decide what content your website is going to have

• What information does your website need to contain?
• How much content are you going to have?
• Include the keywords you are targeting to rank highly in the search engines
• Content can be written later, but decide on what will be created

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4. DEVELOP A STRUCTURE

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Plan how the web pages will fit together

• Decide how the content will be divided up
• Group the pages according to themes
• If necessary create a website hierarchy, with your most important pages at a higher “level”

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Visually create the website in a “wireframe”

• Create a sketch of the pages and how they link together
• Think about how visitors will navigate your website
• Make the structure as logical as possible
• Real Free Websites has the experience to create a structure with optimal usability

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5. CREATE A DESIGN

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Design your website: Bear in mind: – Your website goal – Your target market – Your content

• Consider the significance of different colors
• Make sure your design is accessible to disabled users
• Real Free Websites will make your design stand out

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6. CODE YOUR WEBSITE

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Convert your design to code

• Use well-formed code so that your design appears consistent across browsers, devices and operating systems
• Minimal and valid code is better for disabled users, and for search engines
• Real Free Websites has the know-how to write good code

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7. PUBLISH YOUR WEBSITE

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Upload your website to the Internet!

• If you don’t have one yet, you will need to register a domain name with a registrar
• You will need a web host to store your website code and to display your website to visitors
• Real Free Websites will upload your website and help you with a domain name

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It doesn’t end here

• Now you have a website, you need to promote it and attract visitors
• Submit to search engines
• Get other websites to link to it
• Add new content
• Keep it search engine optimized

Real Free Websites can help you at any point

• How to Write Your Content
• How to Target your Market
• How to Set Your Website Goal
• How to Choose Your Web Host
• How to Choose Your Web Designer
• Is Your Website’s Design Ruining Your Success?
• How to Choose a Web Designer
• A Complete Website Planning Guide
• How to Promote Your Website
• Why Completing Your Website is Not the End

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