Free Small Business Web Site 09 - Building Houses

Before we go any farther, we need to figure out what you’re going to put on this site. I’m sure you have some idea. You can always change it later, but it’s good to have the basic plan figured out first. You should have some general buckets of information that you want to put this content into. Big word alert. Information Architecture. There. I said it. Just like building a house, you need to have a plan, a blueprint, if you hope it’s all going to hang together right.

Get out your piece of paper again and scratch out what information you want on this site and how it will be organized. Maybe you only have, like 4 pages of basic stuff. That’s cool. Maybe you have a bunch of pages that are all alike and need to be organized together. That’s cool too. This is a time for thought and maybe another bathroom break. People are going to wonder about you.