Posts about: "Website Planning"
The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website for Conversions
You had a great idea to build your website for a service you render, an experience you’ve curated, or a product that you want to sell. You chose a web company or maybe even decided to DIY and get involved in the entire process. Now, your website looks like what you want it to (or …
✅ The Website Structure Improvement Checklist ✅
So you’re looking at your website structure for a new website or redesign. That’s good, it’s worth your time. Just like in construction where “a structure is only as stable as its foundation”, the same applies to your website. Without the right website structure: it’s extremely easy to to confuse and lose visitors due to …
Site Mapping Guide: All your sitemap questions answered
Site mapping can sound like a daunting topic. I used to think so myself – but the basics are fairly simple to understand. It’s easy to get lost in the detail, so I’m gonna walk you through exactly what you need to know about ‘what are they’, ‘when to use them’, and ‘how to create’ …
Making a Website: The Absolute Basics
If you are new to websites, here’s a quick article that will help you understand the very basics of what is required to make a website. Three things you need to make a website: A domain name This is the name of your website (also called the base URL, or the web address). E.g. writemaps.com …
Information Architecture Made Easy With 3 Example Sitemaps
Information Architecture might sound big and confusing, but it’s really just organising information in a logical way so that people can find their way around and get what they need. Striding through the supermarket the other day, I could glance at the signs for each aisle, read the 4-5 categories for each, and easily skip …
7 Ways To Prevent Content Gathering From Holding Up Your Website Project
Gather content for your web project. Should be easy, right? A few years ago when running web projects, I constantly found myself pushing clients much too hard to get their website content out of them. I was finding that about half our projects were stalling at some point because we didn’t have enough content ready …
Planning a Website? Don’t forget these 3 things!
Just like balancing work and play, eating and exercise, nachos and cheese sauce, it’s important to have a balanced website. And it’s far easier if you get this right in the planning phase, so only minor adjustments are required as you go along. Whether you are a website maker working on your clients website, or …
7 Questions to ask when kicking off a Website Project
At the start of a web project, be sure to stop and ask the right questions. Here are some of my favorites: 1. What is the goal of the website? Why do you want a website? What can it do for your business? What return will it give you? Do you want it to: sell …
5 Things To Look For When Choosing A Web Company To Make Your Website
1. Past Performance A reliable indicator of future performance, is past performance. Look into whether: they have made a few other websites that are the same type as you want (simple brochure websites, or complex web apps, etc), they have successfully worked with the technology that you want to use before, or able to recommend …