Web Development: Planning Your Website

Are you theming your e-commerce website or in full-scale build? Well you might never forget about doing the very thing that would be the backbone of your endeavors- planning! Before you start building your site, you should use your time to planning every aspect of it. Of course, this is considered a tedious task aside from being time-consuming but this is the only way that you would be able to execute your plans and save you from the trial and error mode. Are you confused at where you would begin? Let us, at Jonny Ross answer your concerns. Answer the following and you will be set to planning your site. What should your site be doing? We must begin at the very beginning. If you want your e-commerce site, then we would guess that you aim to sell products or services. Working together to figure out different means to compel people to buy these products or services would be easier. We must abide by the three-click rule- every customer would find what they are searching for with three clicks utmost or else, they will ditch on you. Make it easier for the clients to make the purchases expected of you. Who is on your market? Identifying your target market would also make web development planning easier and better. Are you catering to female kids and teenagers? Then filling your site with pink and funky designs would catch their attention better. If your market profile shows a market of professionals, then you should adopt your website according to the market needs and general characteristics. Will special features be needed? Special features make the site more interesting. For instance, if you are selling apparel for teens, they would want to see how the clothes would probably look on them so you could provide a feature that would serve as “virtual fitting room”. Are all the tools pooled in? Before anything could be done, you should have all of the complete tools. Without these tools, your website would remain in the planning stage. Which e-commerce platform will work best for your products and services? By coming up with a research of your target market, it will be easier for you to choose among the different e-commerce platform. The one mostly used by your market is definitely going to be the platform that we will be using! After all of these, and once you have materialized things, you should create a mock up and see if this is going to work the way you planned. Print it out and make your corrections.