Further, it's wise to weigh all options beforehand rather than dismantling a finished website to incorporate new changes in it. Therefore, consider the planning phase of the website development process of utmost importance and concern. Even if it's time-consuming, often frustrating, but it provides great dividends. Without proper website planning odds that you'll end up getting a mediocre website are high.

Here's How to Plan your Website?

Having a well-thought-out plan in place helps you anticipate potential errors so that you can remove them at the earliest. In a way, it can prevent an imminent financial disaster from wreaking havoc. Here's how website planning works:

• Determine Goals - It's important to know what exactly is the website you're going to create all about. What are the goals behind its development? And it's all predetermined. Goal to increase membership calls for one set action, and increasing visitors to your site another set.
• Know your Target Audience - You cannot communicate your brand message effectively if you don't know your target audience. Remember what you're creating is for your target audience. And you'll have to design your website in a way that users find it attractive, engaging.
• Develop SEO Strategy - While developing a website it's important to give due consideration to search engine optimization. After all, SEO best practices begin in the developmental phase itself. If SEO is done right up front by incorporating target keywords in the design of the website, higher rankings, and huge traffic is a guarantee.
• Plan For Content - Design, and content need to be in sync in order to make content more presentable. If everything is not sorted out beforehand, you might need to redesign your website all over again once you start publishing content. Depending on the type of content you plan to create, you'll have to design your website accordingly.
• Create Sitemap and Wireframes - When you create a sitemap you know exactly how to organize your website's content. Prior efforts have to be made to ensure that content on your website is looking intuitive and is organized in a simple manner. In addition to sitemap, part of website planning is the wireframe - the skeletal framework of your website. The website layout and navigation are extensions of a wireframe.