Basic website design steps to follow
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When WebTekkDesign builds a new website from scratch, there are plenty of things to do before it’s ready to launch. WebTekkDesign has broken down the process into a series of basic website design steps you can follow.
Here are few steps to help you understand the process of building a website!
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Your Site's Goals
The first thing WebTekkDesign does when designing a website is to determine your website goals. You need to know what you want the site to accomplish.
To determine your site goals, we start by answering some basic questions, such as:
- What will be the primary function(s) of the website?
- What audience are you trying to reach with the site?
- What do you want this site to achieve for your business?
Once you’ve come up with some simple answers to those questions, we obtain a better sense of how to frame your website in a way that allows you to achieve your goals.
Maybe you’re aiming for a content-heavy site that aims to familiarize users with you. Or maybe you want an ecommerce site where people can buy from you. You may even want to create a larger site that accomplishes both.
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Plan Your Site Layout and Branding
The website setup step is all about planning. Specifically, we need to plan out how your site will be organized.
We want to ask you questions like:
- What sections will I have on the site?
- Which pages will I include in each section?
- How will the sections be organized?
This step is critical, because in addition to improving your workflow, it determines the layout of your site’s navigation. When users visit your site, they should be able to easily find their way around. If they can’t, they’ll become frustrated and leave. So we don’t skip this step.
Once WebTekkDesign has planned your site’s overall layout we will create wireframes for each page to determine how the page elements will be laid out.
We will also use this time to plan your branding — how do you want your site to communicate your unique brand? Together we will choose your color schemes, font, and language style to ensure you have a consistent, branded look across your website.
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Creating the Website Pages & Content.
Once WebTekkDesign reaches this point, it’s finally time to create your website. Using the plan we laid out in the previous step, we begin setting up your pages. We are sure to keep them organized like they were in your initial layout and include a navigation bar at the top of the site that lets users easily move around.
We take this time to create all your content for your site, as well. Produce any videos you want to use, create your images, and write all your textual content like blog posts and service pages. Be sure to keep it informative and helpful to users.
After we get the basic website set up, start optimizing it for search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a marketing strategy that involves getting your site to rank in relevant search results so users can find you. There are several SEO optimization tactics we use, including:
- Page speed optimization:
- Responsive design:
- HTTPS:
When we follow each of the above strategies, your site will attract far more traffic once you launch it.
| Price Factor | Website Cost | Annual Site Maintenance |
|---|---|---|
| Web Design | $500 - $150,000 | |
| Website Maintenance | $50 - $60,000 / year | |
| Website Marketing | $100 to $12,000 / month | |
| Website Design Services | $0 - $100,000 | |
| Small Business Website (8-16 Pages) | $500 - $9000 | $75 - $1200 |
| Corporate Website (25-75 Pages) | $2000 - $35,000 | $500 - $15,000 |
| Ecommerce Website (100-1000 Products) | $1500 - $55,000 | $1500 - $30,000 |
| Hosting | $24 - $10,000 | |
| SSL Certificate | $0 - $1500 | |
| Marketing (SEO, PPC, etc.) | $50 - $10,000 / Month |
How to Design a Website for Your Business
You’re in the process of launching your new business, and you know that you need a website to attract customers. After all, a company without a functional website won’t hold much appeal in today’s world, where websites are the best places to learn about businesses and obtain their services.
The problem is, you don’t know how to design a website. You’re unfamiliar with things like coding and HTML, and the idea of creating a new site seems so complicated and difficult. Thankfully, though, it doesn’t have to be that way.
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