Website goals

Before you begin designing or building your website, you need an idea of what you want to achieve with it. The goals you are hoping to achieve will help you make decisions down the road. Your goals are simply the things you want to accomplish with your website these could be things such as making money, attracting attention, or making a statement. You should have goals for your site itself and for its content. You also should think of short – and long term goals for your site. Start by examining some of your favorite sites and determining the goals of those websites.

When you are figuring out the structure of your site, you need to think about both the site as a whole and each page. Remember that a website is just a collection of web pages. There should be a unity to what you create. This unity should be apparent on the site itself and on each page. For example, if you create a family website with pages for each member of the family (mom, dad, son, and daughter), each of those pages should look similar to the others. They should look like a united whole. If every page is different, the site visitor might get lost. You might start by looking at your entire site, or you could look at just one page.