Introduction
As technology grows, more and more people turn to creating websites for almost anything. Businesses create websites to establish wider markets to reach a wider range of clients. Writers and artists create sites to publish their works for many to see and read. Other individuals create websites just for fun! The Internet has become a staple, even a necessity in some circumstances, in the modern era. Navigating websites and understanding how they work is becoming just as essential. Knowing basic knowledge of creating websites and webpages is great knowledge to aquire in a ever growing technilogical era!
Whay are you building a Website?
Before beginning any type of project, you have to ask yourself why are you doing it. With a website, a creator (that's you!) has to ask a series of questions before jumping in head first into designing and building a website. below are a series of questions to get things started.
- Why are you creating the website? Is it for a class project? Are you starting a business? Or is it for fun? Understanding the why behind the creation of your project is extremely necessary. If you do not know why you are creating a website, then why even struggle trying to make one.
- Who are you creating the website for? Who is your audience? Yourself, classmates, or a specific group? By knowing who you are making the website primarily for, design decisions and layouts will change to fit the need of the viewers visiting your webpage.
- What is the ultimate goal of your webpage? When people visit your website, what do you want them to take away from it? This connects back to the first question; the why. When people visit a website, they are going on the search to discover some type of information. What information do you want your audience to take away from your website?
- What information do you know about building websites? Do you know coding and designing? Or are you a true beginning who knows very little to no information about building webpages? If you do not a lot, that is alright! Click here to learn some great resources for beginners!
- Towards the designing stage, what do you want your website pages to look like? A good idea is to make a list or a rough sketch of what you want the layout of the site to look like. Pick a color scheme that matches the content of the site as well as is pleasing to your audience!
- Do you want to build a website? On of the hardest questions is really thinking if you want to even create a website. If your heart and mind are not into creating a website, then the site may not live up to the full potential. Building a website can be tricky and very time consuming, but at the end of it all, your website will be fantastic with a little time and care!
Before Moving Forward
Just the idea of creating a website is scary and nervewracking, but know that you will not be the only one who has met with bumps and turns on the road to creating a website. There will be times when things become overwhelming, almostg to the point where you want to give up. Reach out to others around you if you feel you are in a standstill and do not know how to move forward; someone knows the answer. keep Pushing forward and your website will come together beautifully!
Click on the next page to learn more about coding and design elements based on CSS and HTML. The resource page to see a list of great begninner resources to check out before you go!
