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The first thing you will have
to deal building your website has nothing to do with the
web design itself, it's me related to content writing but
it must be defined and will effect the rest of your
actions. So first of all you need to decide what the topic
of your future website is. Topic is very closely connected
to another web design issue: keywords. The keywords you
select will depend upon the topic you have chosen. When
thinking about website topic ask yourself a few questions:
What is the goal of the site you are making? What are you
trying to achieve with your site. Specify a goal,
preferably in one short sentence.
Take a sheet of paper and a
pen and put all you can think out about your future
website. Brainstorm! Just put everything that comes to
your mind: what you want to give to your visitors, what
the site is about, what you want to accomplish with your
website, what is your experience in the area you would
like to select as topic? The more points you could think
up the better. Then sort it in the number of importance.
Think what points can be deleted without harm to your
project. Delete them. Leave only what is REALLY important.
Try to get your goal out of those points.
Choosing topic is like
choosing the topic for college research paper. You should
try to select reasonable balance between too wide and to
narrow topics. Narrowing down your website topic might be
very helpful. If you have narrower topic that means you
have less competing topic thus it will help you to get
better position among your competitors. However if the
topic is too narrow nobody will ever bother to search for
it. Let me give you example: you want to build a website
devoted to website design, but if you try to develop this
website guess how many websites you will have to beat to
get on the top? I got 4,030,000 pages devoted to website
design according Google . To check this number just enter http://google.com
and then enter “website design” in the search form on
the first page. Now let’s see how many sites Google
indexed with the topic “Flash website design”. I got
about 22,300. As you may see the result of indexed web
pages is four millions smaller. So creating website about
flash design will be much smarter then just to make
“website design” site and be lost in those millions
pages. Note that “Website design” and “Flash Website
Design” are not only keywords, the Flash website design
is a part of website design but it is smaller part.
Searching search engines keywords related to the topic you
have selected may be helpful in making decision about your
website topic. I’ll teach you how to select “right”
keywords to obtain better position on the search engine
listings in the next articles.
Do not hesitate to reset
your goals. Try to think about audience of the website.
People like to visit websites with the original and unique
content. Will your website be able to provide your
visitors with such content? Will visitors come back again
and again or they will simply close the browser window and
forget about your website?
The better the plan the
less work you will have to make. So if you could define
the topic and define it clearly you may proceed to another
step of website building: choosing a domain name.
Click the link to continue:
http://www.metamorphozis.com/tutorials/choose_domain.shtml
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