Plan Your Website-

Posted on May 22 2008 by Pete

It all starts with a plan. Plan your site for better results. So what’s a website plan you say? Well it’s akin to a blueprint for a website. A site plan outlines the objectives of your site and how these objectives are to be met. So you don’t know a thing about building a website or what technology to use right? Outdoorclick understands that you need help and we’ll make sure you get what you need.

It starts like this: Why build a site? What’s the sites purpose? Who is the audience? What are you going to say? How will you measure success? You really need to identify all the assets on the site to meet the goals of a site. Why am I saying this? Because many times clients want a site from Outdoorclick because we create cool looking websites. They tell me I want a cool looking website because our site is out of date both functionally and visibly.  A site goes way beyond the look and feel and the navigation.

Some things you need to think about:
· Why am I creating, recreating my site?
· Is my website an online brochure?
· Do I want ad space on my site?
· Will I sell things on the site?
· Who’s going to manage the site?
· Does the sites information change with regularity?
· Do I want a blog, a forum or will I offer audio or video?
· Should I create a page flow chart?
· Is search engine optimization important to you?

Outdoorclick is Minnesota’s finest website developer because websites go way beyond the look. As I mentioned above we make cool looking sites. I’ve been told by industry leaders our code is incredibly solid, and it is. These things are givens. What isn’t a given is whether or not our clients know why they are building a new site and what it’s purpose is. This where Outdoorclick excels! Outdoorclick, Minnesota’s finest website developer can help you ID what you need from your website. We will not sell you a website. We will get you to tell us enough about what you are trying to accomplish so we can make solid recommendations for your website and solve your pain.

So in closing make sure you have an idea of what you need so you get recommendations that meet your needs. Not sure what you need? No problem, contact us and we’ll get a plan together that identifies what you need from your website.