At the beginning of any Website project, you and your customer, if you're designing for someone else, should probably sit down and think through or talk about your thoughts about the final product.
If those ideas are faint, you need to get them out, and if they're particular, you need to keep them organised and understand the intention behind them.
In other words, you require a plan.
To get the project off to a great start and ensure that each of your thoughts and issues get the consideration they merit, begin by pinpointing the intention for making the Website.
The purpose is like an arrow that points you in the proper direction.
Some people build Websites to sell a product or service.
Others create sites to share thoughts and information.
One might also make a site to promote a serious cause, educate the public, or just have a place for family and friends across the country or across the planet to visit and catch up with each other.
Because the solution to "Why build a website?" is mostly established by the specific needs of the Website owner, my next article will include a handful of brainstorming exercises that you can use as a guide to finding why you are making any certain site.
By defining the sites intention, you acquire a foundation for the remainder of the site-planning procedure.
By the end of these few articles, you should have all the tools you require to set up a plan for building virtually any Website.