Identify what kind of audiences you want to attract
(Audience descriptions should be extremely detailed)
Identify what products or services you will offer them
Identify what makes your site unique and relevant to
your audience
Identify what makes your site valuable enough to keep
them coming back
Identify how you will handle the demand for instantaneous
information and/or services that a successful site might generate
Design
site architecture
Develop site-branching diagram to illustrate what pages
will exist within the site
Create information maps for each page (rough layouts
that indicate page content and elements including text, graphics, navigation
buttons, and hyperlinks)
Develop
content
Develop list of written information & visual elements
Identify what information already exists and what information
needs to be developed
Develop timeline for completion of each area of content
Design
user interface
Create
an intuitive, easily understandable interface that allows users to move
freely throughout the site
Establish
visual consistency and enforce them throughout the site )this includes
logos, graphic style, and fonts)
