Defining website structure

The importance of defining website structure is end user usability. If you make it easy for them to find information on your site, they stay longer and come back for more. Planning ahead and creating a good site structure will also help you in the future when you need to add or expand your website.

Simple questions to ask are:

  1. How will the user navigate through the site? Menu based, text links, buttons?
  2. How will the user complete the task at the website?
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What will your website do?

Probably the most important item to figure out before launching or creating your own website is answering the question “what do you want your website to do?”

This is one of the first questions I will ask anyone wanting a website. The answers are always different.

The photograhy case

Today I met with an old friend of mine who recently got in to photography. He has spent money on equipment, joined associations, networked amongst friend but has still yet to print and produce business cards for his business. Why? Because he does not have a website.

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A new project and weblog

Yesterday an old client came to visit me wanting a new website.

“Here we go again” I thought to myself.

The benefit of working with this client is that they are easy to work with, they understand the value a website brings to their business and they basically left it in my hands to come up with something that will clearly present their business.

An open plate, freedom to do what I want, freedom to choose my own colors & design … not quite.

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