Tips To Make Your First Website A Success

1. Make A Plan And Write It Down

It doesn't take long for a website to "grow legs" and run amuck. Creating a good initial plan will keep you focused on the goal. Plans can easily be updated, but "organically grown" websites often become navigational nightmares for visitors. At a minimum your plan needs to clearly answer the following questions:

• Why am I building a website?
• What are the specific tasks my website will be called upon to do for me?
• If I was going to Google, or MSN to find what my website has to offer, What would I type in the search box?
• How many other sites already exist that are doing exactly what you want to do? (*This is going to give you an indication of how important SEO will be.)

2. Register Your Domain Name NOW

Good domain names are disappearing fast! There are people who make a living registering domain names and holding them until someone is willing to buy them from them, sometimes for $thousands. NOW IS THE TIME TO CREATE AND REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN NAME. Even 2 hours from NOW may be too late. Our domain name registrar offers one of the lowest cost domain registrations anywhere in the world.

Identify the keywords that BEST relate to your future website and run the Domain Name Checklist. Save yourself heartache... Do it now.

By the way, even if you do not plan to build a website soon, once you have a registered domain name, you can use it for emails to enhance your business image. Far more professional than an @yahoo or @hotmail email address.

Compare Web Hosting Packages

Web hosting is very competitive and the uninformed can get ripped off quite easily. Compare hosting packages and when comparing pricing, make sure you are comparing the price against the same features. It is not unusual for a hosting provider to assign low bandwidth usage to give a lowball price, but when your site traffic exceeds that bandwidth, you could end up paying premium penalties for your "overages" each month. We have clients, who came to us because they were paying over $150 a month for bandwidth overages on their previous hosting service.