Web Design A Rocky Web Home Page

No matter who designs your web site you will have to come up with a lot of the content yourself. You definitely need to provide the text for the site as you are the one who knows about whatever it is you are trying to promote online. Text content can be in the form of various electronic file formats such as .txt or Word documents and various types of printed materials.

Images for the site can be original art work, scanned photos, clip art, animations, 3D, and others. You will have to gather any specific images you have and make a list of others you would like to include (original artwork by the designer or purchased stock photography among other sources). For a business site you will want to include your logo. It is best to have this in it's original electronic format. You want to ensure you have legal right to use or change images and logos no matter where they come from.

Other content can include video, sound, databases, files, etc.

Instead of just slapping all of this content together, it has to go together in a way that is Optimized for Search Engines ...

Browsers, plug-ins, e-mail, newsgroups, providers, hosts, your own Web site

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Planning Your Web Site

Identifying your Site's Focus
Targeting your Audience
Virtual Domain or Not?
Choosing a Host
Do-It-Yourself or Web Designer
Sites you Like and Dislike
Design and Colour
Structure and Navigation
Gathering the Elements
Search Engine Optimization
Putting it All Together
Uploading and FTP
Getting the Word Out
Keep it Up to Date

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