{"id":8469,"date":"2008-12-09T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/plan-before-building-a-web-site\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:15:17","slug":"plan-before-building-a-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"Plan Before Building A Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Stephen Grisham, Sr.<\/div>\n

Anyone can create a website these days. Someone with just a small idea in their brain, can look towards the world wide web as an avenue to make a personal website and vent whatever is on their mind. With all the free web hosting<\/a> sites available, why not have strongly held opinions out for the world to see. Typing in “my homepage” into a search engine will yield over 7 million<\/a> pages complete with animated GIFs to view. Most of these sites will rarely get more than a hundred hits in their lifetime.<\/p>\n

What these novice site designers fail to realize is they are not writers<\/a>. Rather they write<\/a> like they are talking with a friend. Well written content should flow like a book or novel, not as if they are in the midst of a conversation. So if this is what they enjoy, is it bad?<\/p>\n

The answer is, yes. With the overused WYSISYG HTML editor at their disposal, they create their own webpage. It has become extremely easy and there is nothing out there to stop these attempts at creating personal pages. The vastly used templates are equipped with a subliminal reflex to close the window immediately.<\/p>\n

Businesses also have begun to create pages that really serve no purpose. Although they have the resources, many times they miss the point. Businesses try to sell goods and services to people passing by their sight, who actually have no interest in buying whatsoever. Its just a meager attempt at getting a piece of the pie.<\/p>\n

Then those that have the point, but lack the resources. Web design is hard work, especially in a largely information driven society. A poor choice here or there and the site is painful to use. Navigation is awkward. The color scheme burns fatigue into their eyes in minutes as they try to make things flashier and flashier and miss the simplicity that a site should have.<\/p>\n

Although some may have an interesting topic or service, chances are they are going to be joining an array of others with the same idea and with already created web content. They move forward and are rarely heard from again. Usually these fail due to lack of planning and ambition to see the project through. Having some type of barrier, will benefit business people by weeding out those who are not ready to take on this endeavor.<\/p>\n

Many webpage designing beginners only see the outer part of the task at hand. They fail to see what exactly is involved such as writing, coding, generating advertising, coming up with a good concept and having the will to see the project come to fruition. Sites may take a very long time to complete and if people quit, we are left with just a bunch of random, wasted space on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Pictures of their dog<\/a>. A few rantings. A worthless service. And never have anyone to truly use it. If the conditions to create a proper site cannot be done and the endeavor amount to naught but worthlessly scattered electrons, one should never begin typing the HEAD tag.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a Staff Writer for InfoServe Media, a small business web site designer<\/a> company that provides custom web design<\/a>. Visit today, or call 1 (800) 838-2203 for a free quote.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone can create a website these days. Someone with just a small idea in their brain, can look towards the world wide web as an avenue to make a personal website and vent whatever is on their mind. With all the free web hosting sites available, why not have strongly held opinions out for the world to see. Typing in “my homepage” into a search engine will yield over 7 million pages complete with animated GIFs to view. Most of these sites will rarely get more than a hundred hits in their lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}