Questions to Answer Before Starting a Site

1.      What is the reason for the site?

2.      What information do you want to present?

3.      Who is your target audience?

4.      What is the best way to reach your target audience?'

5.      How can you keep your visitors interested?

6.      How will you keep visitors coming back?

7.      Why are you creating this site?

8.      What is your purpose?

·        Personal resume/Personal page about yourself

·        Information on specific interests

·        Learn a skill

·        Entertainment

·        Job announcements

·        Provide information about an organization

·        Provide information about a product

9.      What is the theme for your webpage. What is the main idea?

10.  What type of information do you want to include?

11.  Will you have diagrams, glossaries, links to other pages.

12.  Organize your information by sections for better organization. Each section can be a different page in your website.

13.  Decide how you will link each section together in your website.

14.  Plan, plan, plan (Determine your purpose, your audience and you theme. Find reliable information about your purpose and divide into sections. These sections will become your webpages.

Rate each  of the following with a  rating of 1-4.

A rating of 4 would be the best and 1 the  worst.

1. The purpose of the site is evident.

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2. The target audience is clearly defined and the information is written in a format the audience could relate to.

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3. The home page created interest immediately, and the visitor could determine what to do next.

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4. There was a variety of relevant information that is meaningful, useful, and contributes to the purpose of the site.

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5. The writing is clear and direct, and the spelling and grammar are correct.

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6. Colors are pleasing, background is pleasing, text is easy to read, and not too much scrolling is necessary.

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7. All internal pages link to the first page, and all external links work.

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8. The page loads quickly, and multimedia effects are used only to enhance the purpose of the page.

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9. Write in paragraph form your overall opinion of the site.  Include comments such as what you liked best and what you liked least.

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