Steps to Website Planning

• Define the purpose, goals and objectives of your site
• Prepare your marketing and promotion plan
• Secure domain name
• Do your homework.  Research your competition, and identify businesses and strategies that you can use as models.

• Design the site with your team
• Construct your site
• Prototype and thoroughly test your site.  Get as much feedback as possible before launching it on the internet

• Launch site.  Announce, promote, and advertise your site to generate traffic.
• Get as much feedback as possible and update your site regularly.  Websites are not static.  The medium and the audience demand that they be dynamic.  Websites should constantly evolve and provide new information

Can it be handled inhouse?

In considering inhouse maintenance of your website consider whether or not you have an ideal candidate and  key person who can be in charge of your site. The ideal candidate should be  someone who is very technically oriented, and wishes to take the time to learn basic HTML programming, some graphic layout and design