May 19, 2012

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Web Site Requirements

What Should Your Site Do For You?

There are a many benefits to starting fresh. But, if you have a site, you have a lot of content and your customers know your site as it is. Questions I ask include:

Web Hosting
Does your current hosting account (if you have one) accommodate the capabilities and functions you want on your site?

What Kind of Site Do You Want
There are brochure sites and there are managed content sites. You will need to choose a type.

E-Commerce
Do you, or do you wish to, sell access to the content on your site by subscription? Do you sell items (clothing, books, tools)? Do you sell reservations for movies or tours?

Social Networking
Do you want to support and encourage the public to register with your site to take advantage of customer-originated content, such as comments, a forum, photo albums, interoperability with Facebook or other social networking sites?