Website Development Guide

Author: Neil White

This guide will not attempt to explain how to write HTML, or how to use graphics programs, or give you "five steps to multimedia success" or even one single jot of technical information about how the Internet works at all.

Now that's cleared up, here's what it will do! It will give you clear and simple guidelines on how to approach building the website that you want. It will guide you through the decision making process, and help you to get your message onto the World Wide Web in the best way possible.

You will:

1. Decide on what you want the website to do
2. Learn how to plan the development
3. Decide whether to do it yourself or contract out

Once you've completed the above steps you'll learn:

• How to publicise your website
• Where to learn more

So, the aim here is to provide a useful overview of the steps involved in putting together a web site. You'll find where to get more technical help when you get to the "Where to learn more" page - but just take a step back for a moment, because you've got some questions that you need answers to...