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Preparing to Develop Your Site

Spending the time to thoroughly address the research and planning stages that are necessary

for the creation of a Website is essential. Developing a strategic method with which you

can approach development will help you be more efﬁcient, better and more thoroughly

develop your ideas, obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the scope of your project,

and save time and resources down the road. A good Website should be intuitive and create

a positive, unique user experience. The creation of an effective Website starts with tasks

that include deﬁning and summarizing the reason and need for the site and analyzing the

competition, creating an outline or ﬂowchart, documenting how site features will function

and designing the look and feel. In larger companies, these tasks can be delegated to multiple

people or departments and the timeframes in which they are completed can overlap

signiﬁcantly. The speciﬁc breakdown of this process can vary widely—the core components

of Website creation are presented in this book as stages that occur through ﬁve phases of

development. For the most effective site, all these components should be covered—regardless

of whether you are creating your own site, working for a client, or working as part of a

team. As you’ll learn while working through the lessons, Dreamweaver can help you with

many of these tasks—not just those in the production and post-production stages.

Phase 1: Research

Before you start work on any pages, ask yourself or your client questions like the ones

presented here. A full version of the Client Questionnaire that was used in the development

of the Website you’ll be working on, Yoga Sangha, is included on the CD-ROM in the

Lesson_01_Basics/resources folder. Throughout this section, you’ll ﬁnd Yoga Sangha’s

responses to key questions from the questionnaire. Exploring these responses can give you

insight into how the Yoga Sangha site was developed and help you to understand how the

process described here was the backbone of the site’s development. Understanding how

this entire process works will help you when creating your own Websites.

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Who is the audience, why is the site needed, and what do you want the visitors

of your site to come away with? Knowing your audience is vital. Deﬁning a general

user proﬁle helps you to effectively reach your target audience. You may have multiple

kinds of users; if so, develop a proﬁle for each of them.

After you know who your audience is, you need to consider which technologies those

users are likely to have. What kinds of plug-ins, browsers, and operating systems do

the majority of your visitors use? The type of equipment used by your visitors is

important to consider when you create a Website that is accessible to your intended

audience. For example, you wouldn’t want to create a site that uses elements supported

by only the most recent and up-to-date browsers if most of your audience uses older

machines that can’t even run those browsers.

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