Planning A Website

Written by Regina Stevens


Initially, planning a website can be difficult and downright time– consuming – until you finally figure out what it is that you want to present to your visitors. Set some time aside so that you will not be disturbed.

The purpose of this article is to give you some suggestions on how to get started, and how to decreaserepparttar time spent in getting your website completed.

Step 1 –Write down a list of topics that are specific to your site (along with external links).

Step 2 – Expand on each topic. Namerepparttar 132652 topic something short – these will berepparttar 132653 links in your navigation area (e.g. home, about us, etc.). Use a separate sheet of paper for each topic.

Step 3 – After you have all of your website content, decide on a color scheme, graphics, and select a web designer. Give themrepparttar 132654 list of topics inrepparttar 132655 order you would like to seerepparttar 132656 topics in your navigation area. Provide them withrepparttar 132657 contents and other info regarding your website preferences.

Attention grabbing web design will kill your sales!

Written by Per Strandberg


Inrepparttar of-line marketing world it is all about trying to getrepparttar 132651 attention ofrepparttar 132652 potential consumers to a commercial message. The primary goal is to get noticed byrepparttar 132653 public.

It doesn't matter if it is for radio, TV, magazines, newspapers or posters. It all comes down to getting noticed.

Onrepparttar 132654 Web this doesn't work! The reason for this is that onrepparttar 132655 web,repparttar 132656 net surfers are actively searching and looking for information from this gigantic data repository and database that we callrepparttar 132657 Internet.

They are scanning and reading text on web sites and they are mostly blind to graphics and pictures.

Inrepparttar 132658 of-line worldrepparttar 132659 potential target is mostly passive and experience ads in a state of relaxation among other stimulations. Here you must scream out your message to market your product or service.

Of-line people are passive! On-line people are active!

What does this mean for your web site?

For one thing, when anyone visits your web site, you at that moment already have their full attention. So, there is no need to get visual attention to attract your visitors. They are on your site, already!

But, you normally have their full attention only until they have decided if your site is what they are looking for or not. If your site is not what they are looking for or they don't understand that your site is what they are looking for they quickly leave your site, never to return.

The time between they arrive at your site and decide to stay or leave is very short. Normally around 10 seconds!

If you use flash or large graphics, which take to long to load, most people leave without figuring out what your site is about. The attention span onrepparttar 132660 Net is short!

The web surfer doesn't look at graphic so much as they are readingrepparttar 132661 information you present.

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