YOUR NEW WEBSITE - Overview
There are a great many options from which you can choose when it comes to website design and construction. We will suggest a few to you, but do realise that you are most definitely not in any way committed to that which we suggest - as with anything in this Tutorial. Feel totally at liberty to go about this process using your own ideas, designs and resources. Some of us have web skills and others don’t - we are concentrating here on those who have never been involved in any web building or what it entails.
Deciding on the format -
The first decision you need to make is what type of website you are wanting to create -
- what sort of look do you want?
- what energy are you wishing to convey through the medium of your website?
Your website is the means by which you project yourself to the world. It is through this part of your business that you are able to let the world know what you are all about. Consequently, it is an extremely important aspect of your business -
- it is your shop-front!
Now, with the understanding that your website is your shop-front, the image and design of your site is the first stage in this creation. As with ‘bricks and mortar’ stores, prospective clients will either come in and browse, or else just keep walking by without taking a look at what you are offering. In other words, the energy that you create via the colours, layout and design features will either attract or repel your clientele
- It is an extremely vital aspect of your business and it is important to spend time in creating the correct image that you want to portray.
We have been operating our own businesses online since 2000 and during that time we have had the opportunity to experience a great many variations on what can be done with a site. There are certain things that need to be carefully considered when one embarks upon their design -
- Logo
- Design - will it be abstract, pictorial, business-like, artistic, geometric, pretty, bold, etc?
- Colour Scheme - this is closely connected to the actual design, but a design can convey a totally different energy to the public simply by altering the colour scheme.
- Format - will your site be one long page of information, or will you break it into several pages? Will you use tables, columns, fixed backgrounds or perhaps other styles?
- Java - are you going to include java into your design …. will your header be a moving design, or will your buttons, menu bars, etc be java scripted?
- Media - will you include audio or video?
There are so many different design features that it is wise to spend some time cruising the internet to decide just what visual effects you seek. If you come across a site that has design features that appeal to you, bookmark the site so that you can compile a selection of sites to which you can return and from which to draw ideas when it comes time to map out your own website design.
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LET’S START TO BUILD YOUR SITE!
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Brian Tracy
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