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Get Your Website Launched!
by Erin Ferree
There are many elements in a
website design project.
Elements may include the overall
strategy, the site map, site contents, design, coding, search
engine optimization (SEO) and additional functionality. With so
much to track, it's easy to let the website design project roll on
forever. It's tempting to keep tinkering and adjusting the various
components until they're perfect. But you should remember that
while you're editing the website, it stays on your designer's
temporary server for testing or on your desktop - and never gets
launched.
This is counter-productive.
While it's important to launch a website that looks professional,
it's also perfectly OK to launch a site that isn't 100% finished.
Launching a site that's not perfect can actually help you!
Once your site is live, you'll be
able to:
- Get Feedback: While you're working on your website, you're
working in a vacuum. Even if you're working with a designer and
testing it out with some of your clients, you'll only be getting
input from a few people. Once you launch it you'll be able to ask
all of your visitors for their impressions and feedback on your
site. Improving it with this extra help will really speed up the
process and the site will be improved much more quickly.
- Get Found: The faster you can launch something, the better. The
search engines won't find you the instant your site is up! If you
launch it you'll get more time to work on the site while giving
the search engines more time to find you. Once the search engines
find your site they will start referring business your way. And
that's the whole reason you're creating this website, right?
- Refer Clients To It: Imagine if you could spend less time trying
to make sales. One way is to refer clients and prospects to your
website. If you put your 80% complete website online, you can send
those inquiries to your site instead of spending time answering
questions. And that time will be freed up for you to work on your
website. It winds up being a win-win for everyone. So, if you have
a website that's partially done, get it up online now!
Go ahead and launch the site, even if there are whole pieces
missing. Say you still have to finish spicing up the copy, or have
a few more pages to add. Even if you haven't hooked up your
newsletter subscription or your shopping cart yet, just go ahead
and launch the site - it will help you bring in more business
while you're finishing your website project. A website that's out
in the world does you a lot more good than a website that's
sitting on your computer, stuck in development.
About the Author:
Erin Ferree is a brand identity designer who creates big
visibility for small businesses. Her workbook, "Design a Website
That Works", will walk you through all of the questions that you
need to answer in order to create the best possible website.
http://www.elf-design.com/
http://www.elf-design.com/products-webWorkbook.html
-article added to
Teed Hosting on October 4th, 2007
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