A web site planning is very essential when one decides to create and upload a site.
Some time is to be devoted for planning a site. One has to decide what actually the web
site requires. One has to analyze the target audience for whom it is to be designed as
well as decide its purpose.
Purpose of uploading a site: Knowing the actual purpose of launching a site is very
important. It is one of the first steps of web site planning. Without a clearly defined
purpose, a web site cannot be created. Both short and long-term goals are to be decided
before creating the site. The audience for whom a site is created will define the purpose
of developing the web site. Read more about it... Audience of a site: For developing a web site the target audience has to be decided. A
number of things are dependent on the target audience. Depending on the target
audience the site content is decided. The purpose of creating a web site is also
Web site content: Once the purpose of a web site is decided, the web content can be
prepared. The content of the web site is to be prepared according to the requirements of
the users. The information should be gathered and well organized on the web pages.
While collecting the web content, any redundant information that does not suit the
purpose of the site should be eliminated. Categorization of the content is also necessary.
Each of the categories should bear descriptive titles for the convenience of readers.
Planned contents for sites can fulfill the purpose of the site and the requirements of the
Compatibility of the web site: Testing the compatibility of a web site is part of web
site planning. A web designer gets wider range of scope with alternative browsers like
Opera and Firefox than Internet Explorer. The compatibility of the websites often is
restricted and viewers cannot access them. As Internet Explorer is not fully W3C
standards Compliant, viewers cannot access many sites. While the range of accessing
web sites increases with alternative browsers.
Use of different image file formats is another restriction of web page design. Internet
Explorer does not support advanced features and thus GIF format has remained the
widely used file format for images.
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