Launching Your Website – Part 10
Launch Day – Make sure you have fun – you have done all you can by this stage, but dont stop there. One of the things Ive always loved about computers and the web is you can change, remove and add things in a instant. As long as its useable and presentable make sure you [...]

Launching Your Website – Part 7
Build a list of people & companies you are going to contact when the site launches. Friends, family, local businesses, press, local council, your bank, business link, theres plenty of people you should tell.
Remember theres also social friends that need to know about your new website.
Depending on your circumstances, you may want to stagger telling [...]

Part 5 kind of goes hand in hand with Part 3 (building content well in advance) and that is to plan ahead with your next 4-6 weeks of tasks relating to the website.
Have you set up a mailing list, if so when will you mail them?
How is your Google Adwords account doing?
What about search engine rankings, anything happeneing there?
Theres lots [...]

Launching Your Website – Part 4
Start telling people the site is about to launch. If you dont want to share the exact details (say for instance its a mini site for a new product that you cant talk about to launch) then drop hints that your company is about to do “something” “sometime” soon.
Its upto you how much you say [...]

Depending on your website purpose you might want to create a good amount of content before going live, and release it slowly over the first few weeks, to keep it fresh and interesting.
This will save you time every day when you may be concentrating on other aspects of the website, such as SEO or online marketing. This also doubles up [...]

Launching Your Website Part 2
Test Test Test, and Test some more. Get your friends, family, neighbours all to take a look at the site and give feedback.
Is it easy to use?
Can the user see how to contact you?
Does it put your message across?
I always find it good to ask someone who knows nothing about the project to take a [...]

Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.
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