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The Most Important Thing You Should Know Before You Create A Website PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mcdowell Bradley   
So you want to start an online business or you want to use the internet for an exiting offline business? While the decision to do so may stem from many reasons, the internet is a wonderful to conduct business and can be very profitable if you do things the right way.

So you want to start an online business or you want to use the internet for an exiting offline business? While the decision to do so may stem from many reasons, the internet is a wonderful to conduct business and can be very profitable if you do things the right way.

Your site design can either be done by you or you can hire a professional designer to do it for you. If you decide to do it, most likely there will be a steep learning curve involved, especially, if you are new to website creation. There are many websites with free tutorials in HTML and CSS to help you understand the basics.

Should you turn this over to a professional website developer, be prepared to shell out some big bucks. It can cost anywhere from $1000 for a basic design upwards to $5000 or more. By learning to do it yourself, you can save a lot of money and learn a valuable skill.

I am a big advocate of taking the do-it-yourself approach. There are many advantages. One is that you can design your website exactly as you see it. Sometimes it can be hard communicating what you want to others and very often you will never get back exactly what you envisioned.

Website design skills are in big demand. This means that once you learn the basic skills, not only do you become a marketable asset, but you can design your own sites, make changes in the future, or create new websites that target other markets. It is a valuable skill to have.

When you are planning the look and fell of your site, always keep in mind that the customer or visitor is the most important thing. The site should not be about you, but about your customers. This means your website will address the needs, wants and desires of the customers by providing answers and solutions that will help them.

A site that truly benefits your visitors is a site that converts well. This means that you have to clearly communicate in every way what is important to them and not what is important to you. Many times people build websites the have very little visitor value. This is a big mistake.

The best website design will always reach out to real people with real problems and offer solutions in a very understandable way. This is how you design a site that converts into sales. The sales can be generated from affiliate products, personal services, or your own information products.

The best formula you can use is the same formula that copywriters use when creating sales correspondence. The formula is AIDA which means, attention, interest, desire and action. This simply means your site design and website copy should attraction the attention of visitors, hold their interest, create a desire for you solution and inspire them to take action. Do this and your will success.

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