Planning is a crucial part of any project we do. It’s the same for a website (web development). Without a proper plan in place, you might actually miss out on some important features that add great value to the website or overdo a particular feature that might be absolutely useless in future. Right from how the website looks to how it functions to how reliable the codes are, everything matters and everything needs detailed planning.
Needless to mention how important a website is for a business. Designing and developing a perfect website is everybody’s dream. Who actually get there are the people that invest time and efforts in planning their dream website. So, what are some of the important aspects you must consider while planning your website? Read on!
1. Goals
Websites are developed for various reasons, albeit everything involves marketing what is the real purpose of your website. There are websites to just showcase your products and services, some websites to sell your physical products, some to create awareness about particular events, some to connect with fellow beings on the same business or a particular area of interest, etc. You need to clearly define the goal of your website. How many followers do you want to achieve in a given time? Who are your target audience? What is the monthly income you expect to generate from the website? These are some of the measurable goals you need to have for your website.
2. Budget
Budget is yet another important aspect to plan around when you’re trying to build a website for your business. As you know, there are a lot of costs involved in web development – design, development and finally hosting; there may be other charges involved too. No matter the size of your business, it’s imperative that you budget. Without a budget, there are chances you may end up building a website that is not as functional as you may have expected or pay a high price for an output that is not worth it. Therefore, it is necessary to set your budget and work around what you expect on your website.
3. Roles & strategy
It is necessary to plan things ahead, even who is going to be doing what. It is important to assign persons for each task right from planning to designing to development to testing to hosting. Ensure this is conveyed to your members clearly and they should also be aware of what is expected of them to perform better. By strategy here, we mean the content strategy for the website. You need to plan the content that you will be posting on your website. It includes both text and images or graphics. Content planning is the key. Try to keep your website as dynamic as possible.
4. Design & Develop
We can’t stress well enough on the fact how important web designing is important to the website. A good website must be aesthetically alluring and functionally above par with other websites. Any website that does not look good or functionally weak will only drive the traffic away from the website. Some key factors to remember when designing your website are easy navigation, readable fonts to use, design compatible with all gadgets, awesome logo and taglines, etc. Once these are figured, web development will be taken care of by the developers.
5. Test test test
Testing is absolutely necessary like planning. Testing helps remove the bugs and make the website much more functional. Test your website on all gadgets and browsers to make sure it is compatible with all platforms. Testing helps you to ensure the consistency of your website once it is developed. So, test away and make your website error-free and usable.
