Build Your Website
Using the following system, put your sites wording and navigation together in
a way which guides the surfer to your "product":
- Grab their ATTENTION
- Get them INTERESTED
- Build their DESIRE for your "product"
- Get them to ACT now
For now, where you don't yet have a product, just put things like "get XXXX
today" or "click here now to buy XXXX" Get the idea? You're building a site
around a subject which will lead your surfer to a product that they need. You
are NOT just putting up lots of links to a product that someone may or may not
follow.
Let's look at this in more detail:
Decide and write down the answers to the following:
- What will your surfers problems be? (prioritise)
- What will they have tried that doesn't work?
- What is it that would solve their problem?
- How can your "product" help?
- Why should they choose your "product"
- And Why should they choose your "product" today?
Now lets try an example using gardening as the subject and just highlight one
problem:
- Problem:
- Gardeners
often suffer bad backs from digging pruning and weeding
- They hate weeds and fight a constant battle with them which takes time
and energy
- They may have brown or burnt grass which spoils the look of their lawn
- Their soil may be acidic which prevents certain plants from growing
- Most gardeners will have tried stretching exercises and kneeling mats,
they may have helped a little but their problem remains because they still
have to bend to use their tools
- If they could garden without bending, their back would not hurt.
- You have a tool that will allow them to work on their garden without
bending
- Its the only tool that you can use without bending or stretching for
digging pruning and weeding all in one simple tool
- Your tool is so popular stocks are depleting fast, so to be sure they
should order today. Tomorrow could be too late.
So how might this look as a simple website ?
Page
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Text
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Stage
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Home page
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Tired of aching after a day in the garden? Fed up with
having to do less than you want in your garden because your back won't let
you? |
Attention
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Page 2
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If you find that your back is increasingly suffering due to
all that weeding pruning and digging which makes you bend and stretch
awkwardly, then you are not alone. Thousands of gardeners have suffered
just like you for years but now many of them no longer worry about having to
bend or stretch whilst weeding digging or pruning. For them, those days are
gone for ever! |
Interest
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Page 3
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They now use a tool that will allow them to work on their
garden without bending at all ! Its the only tool that you can use without
bending or stretching for digging pruning and weeding all in one simple tool |
Desire
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Page 4
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This tool is so popular stocks are depleting fast, so to be
sure of yours, order today. Tomorrow could be too late. Click here to buy
the amazing "superthingy tool" now |
Action
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Build a storyboard and plan
- Storyboard all your Web pages
- Write a rough outline of each page's text
- Decide which graphics should appear on which pages
- Get permission to use copyrighted material
- Create a master list of all files
Feature lock: No more new features added after this step!
When you have a list of all Web pages,
files, and features, declare a stage of "feature lock." To get your site up
quickly, resist adding more pages, files, or features, no matter how easy
they seem. You can add more after your Web site is running.Create your Web files
Rewrite text to produce final draft. When you write Web pages from scratch, you
can use
HTML editor software to help.Find or create all graphics files
You can scan your logos, art, and photos
to create Web graphics files. Use Free clipart, create your own or copy free graphics from Internet
archives.Do you need advanced functions for this first site?
Many Web sites do not need advanced
functions such as animation, database access, or multimedia. Your first Web
site will be easier to create if you leave advanced functions for additions
at a later date.
To perform advanced functions, you may need to use: CGI scripts, JavaScript
programs, Java software, and interfaces with other software programs. You
can write these software programs, buy them, or (sometimes) get them for
free.Test your Web files on your own
computer
- Test each file before adding to site
- Note names of files with problems
- Write down all error messages.
- Determine causes of problems
- Correct your files
- Test every link on each page
Some
Software programs can automate link
testing.Copy files to your web site host computer
Your Web site host may provide special
software to automatically do this. If not, you'll need
FTP softwareCheck your master list of files
Have all files been uploadedTest your site online
Look at every page
Does each page display? Does every link
work? Does every graphic display?
Visit your site using a 56k modem to see how quickly or slowly your
page displays for an average visitor.
Write down all error messages.- Correct the files on your own computer
- Copy your corrected files to your Web site host computer
- Test again to make sure your corrections work
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