How to Create a Website Plan?
Before you begin building the web pages that will make up
your website, you will need to create a website plan:
- Draft a preliminary website plan.
- Draw a website map.
Drafting A Site Plan
Your website plan outlines the purpose and goals of your website. It should address the following issues:
- Site Purpose: Clarify your reasons for building the site and list the site's goals, ranked by importance.
- Site Audience: Define the types of users you expect your site to attract.
- Website Marketing: Explain how you intend to attract your niche audience; through advertising, word of mouth, special promotions, and so on.
- Web Copy: Detail what types of text and images you want your site to contain.
- Look and Feel: Describe the site's aesthetics, such as the color palette you'd like to use and the overall tone or attitude you intend to convey.
- Web Layout: Consider how you'll organize each page to allow users to navigate easily among pages on the Site.
- Site Schedule: Determine deadlines for creating drafts of
the Site and launching the final product.
Draw a Site Map
Once you have your site plan in place, you're ready to
create a site map of your website layout. Your site map should
include each of the sites main pages and how they are linked together.
You can draw a site map on paper or with image editing
software, such as Adobe Fireworks or Photoshop. A typical site
map might look like this:
