Your site design is unique and custom tailored to your business. Professional custom website design starts with a thorough understanding of both your business and the goals you have for your site, now and in the future. It includes creating a budget for your website that works with your online advertising goals. Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI).

Website Planning

It is very important to take the time to plan exactly what is needed in your website. This will save your developer time hence saving you $$ in the future as you will require less modification done to your site. Thoroughly considering the audience or target market, as well as defining the purpose and deciding what content will be developed are extremely important.

Purpose

It is also essential to define the purpose of the website as one of the first steps in the planning process. A purpose statement should show focus based on what the website will accomplish and what the users will get from it. A clearly defined purpose will help the rest of the planning process as the audience is identified and the content of the site is developed.

Audience

Defining the audience is a key step in the website planning process. The audience is the group of people who are expected to visit your website – the market being targeted. These people will be viewing the website for a specific reason and it is important to know exactly what they are looking for when they visit the site.

Content

Content evaluation and organization requires that the purpose of the website be clearly defined. Collecting a list of the necessary content then organizing it according to the audience's needs is a key step in website planning. In the process of gathering the content being offered, any items that do not support the defined purpose or accomplish target audience objectives should be removed. It is your responsiblity to provide your web developer with content required to fill your website with in a timely fashion. Developer is not likely to know details and history about your company therefore, will be unable to proceed unless you provide them.

It is important to note that custom website design involves multiple steps.

• First, is the design of the basic look and feel of the site and defining all pages and how they integrate.
• Second is the development of the site or "The Building" of the website.
• Third is filling in the content of the site and making any small changes.