Website design planning

When you plan your website design you have the entire thing in front of you; it is just like having the architectural design in front of you before starting to construct your brick and mortar building. Website design planning involves the following:

Before you can start creating the design of your website you clearly need to define your goals: what you need from your design and where your design is going to go after the initial stage?
Is it going to be text-intensive design or do you plan to have lots of graphics in order to show your graphic abilities?
How often do you plan to change your design and how much information you want to accommodate in it?
What steps are you going to take in order to keep the design separate from the data? A

ll these questions and many more need to be answered in order to start your website design process. The more questions you can ask yourself at the outset the better will be your design and lesser would be the chances of taking wrong steps and hence wasting money and time.

Once you have an idea of what you want to achieve from your web design you can start creating the concept using any graphic design tools. You can even use a notepad and color pencils but then later on it will be difficult to transfer those graphics onto your webpage.

I mention design and navigation separately because although navigation is fundamentally an intrinsic part of your website design it is very crucial how you design your navigation. People are going to access all your content using your navigation so you have to design your navigation very carefully, constantly keeping the nature of your content in your mind. Anyway, during this website planning stage you create your web pages and your navigation according to the design structure that you have conceptualized.

After you are satisfied with all the web pages that you have created you need to upload your website to a remote server in order to make it accessible over the Internet. Once you do that your website is operational.Planning is very critical and never underestimate it. Proper planning can save you lots of headache during the later stages when tracking things becomes almost impossible.