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Keshav Agarwal
Keshav Agarwal

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Plan for your new website in 3 easy Steps

Planning to create website for your new venture.
You know How to code but How to plan is the most important question.
So Let's get the answer

1. Purpose

Ask yourself — “Why do you need a website?”, “What will be the purpose of the website?”

The purpose of your business website can be to engage, inform, and educate visitors about you, but the end goal is to convert visitors into leads and leads into customers

In some cases, users can purchase products directly from the website, while in others they may engage with the business, buying professional services from them.

2. Customer Journey

Don’t forget the reason you’re building a site in the first place.

Now it’s time to start considering what type of journey you are leading people through as they visit your website.

The homepage is your first impression and first impressions are everything, aren’t they? Therefore, this is one of the most important details to consider as you plan your website. and it should be based on a single message that you have decided to communicate with people through your website.

Have a clear idea about Who is it that you are targeting that will most likely take advantage of your product or service? A lot of what you include on your site will be based on the answer to this question.

For example, statistics show that young men and women spend the vast majority of their time watching YouTube videos. That means that if your target audience primarily consists of younger consumers, you might be able to get them to interact with your site better if you include more videos than written content on your site.

In other words, you need to consider what your **primary visitors **are going to enjoy that’s going to make them stay on your site longer. That will determine the type of content you will want to include as you build your site.

You have to envision how you want people to move through your site and what impression you are making at every turn. As they go from page to page, What pages should be included that will make it easy for your user to navigate the site? They should be able to effortlessly find their way to the pages that are set up for them to buy from. What content would make them more likely to stay on the site, interact, and buy?

These are all questions you should ask yourself before moving forward to build your website.

3. Design

After having a full idea about purpose and customer journey, You can create a Wireframe of the websites, describing how each of your web pages will be linked and what content should be present on each page to drive users.

Start with a pen and paper and draw blocks over it, It will provide you with a brief idea of how your website will work.

After that, When it comes to professional designing using the software you just want to make sure that your design stays consistent with your branding and the overall message you are communicating through your site.

“Additionally, investing in a website means investing in something that grows with your business. ”

Always Plan for your website to change over time.

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