A Site of One's Own Bella Vista AR

Posted by : Cary Griffith

Building a Web site is not like building a home. There are abstract similarities, but Web sites are virtual, not physical. With Web sites you can tear down a wall by touching a key. Even better, with a similar touch of the key, most applications enable you to replace what you just tore down.

But if you are new to Web-site design, the analogy of building a house can be useful. Like a home, you have plenty of decisions to make. You have to find a reliable Internet service provider (ISP). You probably already have a sense of what your Web site should cover, but soon you'll have to begin setting down the exact verbiage, look, and feel.

And therein enters the all-important design considerations: colors, shapes, sizes, frames, fonts, links, and content tables, to name only a few. And the number of collateral issues can also be overwhelming. For example, what about e-commerce, registering with search engines, measuring your audience, and advertising?

Building a Web site, particularly for a business, involves just as many considerations as building a house. But the analogy begins to diverge from reality when you consider the first, most fundamental Web-site design question you'll face: Build it yourself, or hire it out? Most of us would never attempt building our own homes. And yet building your own Web sites--even for something as important as a small or medium-sized business--is well within the realm of feasibility.

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