Question 4: Do you know what content you want to include on your site?
You need to think about both the text and images you want on your website. Not only what you want to include, but how you will create it. For example, do you have the content in house already, or will you need to take some photos or write some new text. Will you need a professional copy writer to help put this together, or edit your writing?
Once the content has been created, think about whether you will want to change and update it regularly, or if it will remain fairly static? If you want to be flexible then you’ll need a content management system (CMS) running at the back end of your site. These aren’t particularly expensive (in fact you can get some open source CMS programmes that are excellent) but your designer will need to set them up to work on your site.
Think carefully here as the content will have a dramatic impact on the cost of building and maintaining your website. Choose your content management system carefull too. If you use a web design agency with their own CMS, you will be tied into them for the maintenance of your site so y ou’d better be happy they are going to do a good job and will be available for future upgrade work.
Only fact is that anything you are selling must fit one of two categories, it must solve a problem or fulfill a need.!!