What Must you Have to Develop a Website? Clear List to Help you out
You already know that a website is a need for your business and want some clarity on what it would take to develop your website.
This article would serve as a to-do list for getting your website running smoothly and effectively.
As expected, you’d hire a digital marketing agency to get your web development done, but it would be an advantage to have a good understanding of what you’re getting into.
Let’s see what is required of you to get started.
- Domain Name
- .com– the most common extension, mostly used for commercial websites.
- .edu– best fit for educational websites.
- .org– suitable for non-profit organizations and other organizations.
- .gov– only used for governmental web pages.
- Web Hosting Plan
- Shared Hosting: This is the least expensive and recommended for a small project website. The hosting resources are shared and you have no control over the server.
- Dedicated Server Hosting: It is more expensive than shared hosting. In this hosting, you have control over the server, and the hosting resources are used by you alone. This significantly increases your web speed and performance.
- Virtual Private Server Hosting: This hosting plan gives you complete control over the server. It is the best choice if you’re developing custom appliances or running a SaaS business.
- Web Development Plan
- What do you hope to achieve with your website? Do you want to increase sales, drive traffic, generate leads, or showcase your product/service using your website?
- How do you intend to achieve that goal?
- How do you want the website to look?
- How would you love your web content to be organized?
- What actions do you want your web visitors to take on the website?
- What are the KPIs you’ll use to measure web performance?
- Who would you need to work on the project?
- When do you want your site launched?
- How much are you willing to invest in your website?
- Buyer Persona
- Understand their buying process
- Know where they live
- Understand what they’re interested in
- Get to know their pain points
- Understand why they’ll purchase what you offer
- Determine what motivates their buying
- Discover what their expectations are when using your product or service
- Know their income status and more.
- Web Content
- Make your home page the first conversion point.
- Do not overwhelm your visitors with irrelevant information.
- Be clear, precise, and engaging as possible.
- Use simple and conversational English in your content
- Use a straightforward layout.
- Include a CTA (call to action) on every page of your website.
- Understand the buyer’s journey.
- Provide relevant information about your product or service.
- Use enough white space.
- Images
- They make your web content interesting to read.
- They enhance search engine optimization.
- They boost sales of products or services.
- They boost brand promotion.
- They help lead generation and conversion.
- They increase the quality of user engagement.
- Do not use images that are stretched or pixilated on your website.
- Use images with people in them, it builds trust.
- SEO Plan
- Perform rigorous keyword research.
- Decide the keywords you intend to rank for.
- Run a search on the keywords.
- Analyze the sites that appear on Google’s first page.
- Create better content surrounding the keywords.
- Build internal and external links around your blog post content.
- Optimize your content for featured snippets.
- Web Layout and Design
- Content width design
- Menu bar design
- Home page header design
- Social Proofs
- Expert’s stamp of approval
- Celebrity endorsement
- User testimonials
- Business credentials
- Earned media
- Social media shares
- Wisdom of the crowds
- Wisdom of your friends
- Web Maintenance Plan
- Identifying unknown broken links.
- Fixing bugs and malware.
- Testing your web page load time.
- Updating your website content.
- Improving and analyzing the performance of your website content.
Author
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Faith is an enthusiastic SEO copywriter passionate about helping businesses find a voice online. She works majorly for SaaS and tech companies. Aside from writing, she loves helping others find their career path and purpose in life.