What do I need to know before starting a website?
Here are the main questions that you need to answer before hiring a designer or building your own business website. If you are hiring a designer, then please get this information filled out with all the relevant files and links.
- Do you have a logo?
- Do you have a color scheme?
- Do you have a domain?
- What is your budget?
- General speaking, what do you expect for that budget?
- What exactly do you sell?
- Who do you sell to? (Who is your target audience?)
- What are they looking for when visiting your website?
- Why should they buy you versus the competition?
- Why should they buy you versus doing it themselves?
- What are your top value propositions?
- What pages do you think you want on the site?
- What marketing do you already have? (social media, email, collateral, etc. please list all links)
- Do you want the site to be found on search engines?
- What are your 5+ top competitors, and their links?
- What are your 5+ favorite websites in any field, based on their design?
- When do you need the site live by?