This document provides guidance on planning and designing a website. It discusses defining the target audience and purpose of the site, organizing content through site maps and directories, and designing the look and feel through considerations of color, fonts, and layout. The document also outlines basic steps for establishing a website, which include finding an available domain name, registering the domain, and using the provider's control panel to manage the site.

1. Presentation by: Archana Jha
Submitted To: Ms. Rani Ojha
(Asst. Lecturer)

2. A website is a collection of documents
or pages written in HTML code which
is typically dedicated to some
particular topic or function.
Based on their functionality there are
two types of websites
Static websites
Dynamic websites

4. Define your target audience
Organize your concept and
materials
Create a directory structure
(site map)
Create a sketch of page you
intend to create
Design and refine the look
and feel of the site

5. Your site should facilitate the information or services to visitors the way they are
looking for. The keys to successfully communicating with your audience are first
to identify who they are and then anticipate their reaction on the way you organize
information to the kinds of fonts and images you use.
You need to consider the following points for meeting the above said objectives.
 The viewer’s background and previous experience
 Their interest and tastes
 The reason why they are visiting your site
 What is their general age

6. You should be clear about the aim of creating your site, whether the aim of the site is:
 to inform
 to promote a product
 to educate audience
 to entertain the audience
Your vision of creating the web site needs to be well defined.

7. If you think that the site will contain very few files then you can store all of them
in just one directory. But if the site is going to be very large and complex, then you
will need to organize files into separate directories and sub-directories.
Developing a logical directory structure is an essential part of planning your web
site. You can have a subdirectory for sound clippings.

8. The term Look and Feel means the overall representation of your site. It is the
combination of color, graphics, type and text that help to convey your meaning
with style and impact.
Some of the factors you can take into consideration to improve the look and feel of
the web site are:
 Space and Balance: Every thing should look proportionate and proper.
 Color: The colors should look pleasant to the eyes.
 Font type and size: Type face of the text and size of the text in the Web
pages should be comfortable to read and make the matter easy to
understand.
 Textures: Background graphics or textures can be annoying while reading
text. So be very careful and selective.
 Special Effects: Multimedia can be added to your site to make your site
appealing. More animation, graphics, sound may cause delay while accessing
through a browser.
 Consistency: Using a single color scheme throughout is a good way to
achieve consistency.

10. Establish the basics
Find out if the name you want is available
Find a website that can show you similar
domain names that are available
Register your domain
Manage your website
Add themes

11. Establish the basics: your website will need two things:
 A unique domain name: Each domain name is registered with DNS( Domain
Name Server), which indentifies a domain name with a unique internet protocol
addresses.
 Space: Each website must have a web space allocated to it. This is provided by a
web server, many of which are maintain by private companies.

12. Find out if the name you want is available. Many websites (such as
domainsbot) will catalogue which domains are available. Or, you can always try
typing the domain you want into the URL field of your browser.

13. Find a website that can show you similar domain names that are
available. Searching a taken domain will turn up similar domains that are still
open. For example, if you want to register the domain name
“domainhostingcompany.com” you'd see that “domainhostingcompany.co” is
available but “domainhostingcompany.com” is already registered.

14. Register your domain. Find a domain name registrar and sign up your domain.
(To find a registrar, simply search "domain name registrar.") You'll probably have
to pay a start-up fee, as well as a yearly fee to keep the domain registered in your
name. Afterward, the registrar will provide you with access to a control panel for
your website.

15. Manage your website. From the control panel, you can check your disk space
and monthly bandwidth space. You can also upload and download the contents of
the website, as well as updating the files and folders of the website using FTP
server address.