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Setting up your first website?
Here’s what you need to know and do

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First Site

Why have a web site at all? Who benefits most from having their own website? First web site basics - what you need, what it costs. Planning your first website - goals, look and feel, audience, keywords, working with us to get what you want. Start up small then grow as needed. Content Management (CMS) - what it is, how it works, do you need it? Formulating a creative brief. About deciding on the Look and Feel of your site. The most important things to think about and decide for your first web site to be a success. Plus everything else you need to know about how to work with us in setting up and making a success of your Start Up web site.

12 Reasons You Need a Website

In times of economic difficulty it’s easy to start chopping marketing budgets. However we believe being on the web is an ideal solution to survive hard financial times, not a budget item to cut. Simply put, having a web site is more important now than ever before.

Here are some reasons why:

First Site Checklist

So...you/your team have decided the time has come for you/your organisation to have its first website - congratulations! Good thinking.

But before you start calling round web companies to get some quotes, take a little time first to set out what it is you want, what you might need, and what you hope to get out of it all.

Choosing a Domain Name

The choice of a domain name (e.g. mysite.com) from those names not already registered can effect the memorability of your site address (e.g. www.mysite.com), its usability in terms of typing it into a browser, the search results achieved by your site and - if your site name is the same as your domain name (e.g. Yahoo/www.yahoo.com) - be an important branding element.

Making a Design Brief

Compiling an initial design brief (or Creative Brief) can be a very useful exercise in defining your ideas about the type of site you want, what it should achieve, and how it might look.

For us as your web designers, your completed design brief will usually prove a crucial point of reference in meeting your key requirements.