Creating a Website For Your New Business

Posted August 17th, 2008 by Richard Dewick in

Website design

Creating a Website For Your New Business

If you're about to embark on creating a website for your business then this collection of articles will help you on your journey. There's a lot involved in putting together a website that not only looks good but also easy to navigate and delivers on many fronts.

Creating a website can be a daunting prospect and if you're not technically minded then the idea of building a site probably makes you shudder. Do not worry, take your time to read my posts, make notes, bookmark this page and return to it when in doubt.

There's initial advice from a complete technophobe who required a site for her small business along with web design inspiration, SEO and usability tips. Then once you have your website built I've written further articles on promoting your site via social media and traditional press release.

Creating a Website

This information should give you a head start when it comes to creating a well designed and successful website.

Uhm, these articles aren't

On August 20th, 2008 CheStyle said:

Uhm, these articles aren't as much about creating a website as optimizing and promoting it when it's up and going. Good read though. I'd really add some great links that would help beginners on the technical and marketing side, but I'm lazy.
PS: Dude, the content is not bad, but green links on black background are totally evil.

Step by Step Creation

On August 20th, 2008 Richard Dewick said:

Hi Chestyle, whenever I create a website I first look at design incorporating SEO and usability, these shouldn't be added when it's up and running but in the core design. So the first 4 articles all discuss these topics then on to the promotion but maybe you look at it differently? This post is an overview of the whole process not just the design, something a future post will cover.

You'll be glad to know I'll be launching a new design soon so those evil links will be no more :)

By 'Creating a Website' I

On August 21st, 2008 CheStyle said:

By 'Creating a Website' I meant: choosing the CMS to fit the needs (Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress etc or and own CMS), choosing the webhosting etc. SEO is a must for any site, but what's the point if your site goes down from a traffic spike, or when you desperately need to add a very useful feature, but it's a real pain to add it because of the inappropriate CMS that runs your site.
And content optimization for the target audience is important, maybe obvious, but important. I mean, SEO is great, but when the site's content is "Search Engine Only" and has little value for the visitors it's really annoying.

Static Site or CMS?

On August 21st, 2008 Richard Dewick said:

Hi Che, thanks for pointing out one I missed off the list, I've now included an extra link that within the post includes links to the 3 CMS you mention although there are many more out there. The capabilities of your chosen CMS are very important, something you should bear in mind or discuss with your designer to make sure it can do exactly what you want.

Writing content solely for the search engines might get you higher rankings but most probably fewer customers so yes always think of your site visitor first.

Thanks for your great comments Che :)