Tips: Some questions before you begin to build your website.

This is just a small sampling questions you should ask yourself before  you begin to build your website.

Strategy
Why are u creating this website?
What do you expect to accomplish?
What are you offering your audience?
What do you want users to do on your website after they've left?
What brings your visitor back?

General Site Description
What kind of site is it? (E-commerce? personal? info-gathering? entertainment?)
What features will it have?
What are your most important messages?

Target Audience
Who is your primary audience?
Can you make assumptions about an average user's connection speed? Platform? Monitor size? Browser use?
How often do you expect them to visit your site? How long will they stay during an average visit?

Content
How often will the information be updated (daily, weekly, monthly?)

Resources
Do you have a server for your site?
Have you registered a domain name for your site?

Graphic Look and Feel
Do you have existing standards, such as logos and colors, that must be incorporated?
What are some other websites you like?
What do you like about them?
What sites do you not like?