What are the first steps to creating a web site?
Decide why you want a web site and what the purpose will be served (mission and objectives) with the creation of the site. Create a budget and evaluate if the web site should be created by internal personnel or by contracting with an outside company. Within that decision, critically look at what internal resources; talent and time can truly be devoted to the web development effort. Devise a comprehensive project management plan that will carry your project from beginning to end with time lines and resource allocation commitments. Carefully balance your objectives for the site with the reality of your resources, including, the technical considerations that are required in order to carry out the steps of your plan. Throughout the web development process open lines of communication should involve all affected personnel including external professionals that may be a part of the process. Upon project completion, user functionality or testing should be performed in order to insure that the w
