K.Font Web Designs
Newbie Tips

Just getting started in planning your website?

If you'd like your own web page and you're not even sure where to start, this might be the help you're looking for. Every web page package offered by K.Font includes design and content consultation to help you determine the material you'll need, how to arrange it and find the look that's best for your web site. This "web tips" page includes some of the information that is covered at these meetings.

  • Keywords - Internet searchers find the pages that interest them by typing in keywords. What keywords would you, or most people, enter if they were trying to find your page? (can be 1, 2, or 3 word combinations and should be listed in order of importance - make a list of up to 100 words) 
  • Site Description - Write a brief (30 words or less) descriptive paragraph to describe your site on the search engines. Customers will see the first sentence or two when the search engine pulls up your webpage on an inquiry, so try to condense the page content & word it in a way that will invite & encourage visitors. 
  • Snoop - Check out other pages that offer same information, products, or services as your future (or current) web site. You can get lots of ideas this way. Make a note of words you used to find these competitor's pages - these words should be on your keywords list. Especially look at the CONTENT (remember this word - it is what will make your web page worth visiting and is the most important ingredient to great web sites). What content do they have and what content DON'T they have. Both can help you find what you should include on yours.
  • Color & Style - When you are surfing the net be sure to bookmark or make a note of any web pages that you like the look of. You may find a pattern of your style - colors, textures, designs - and it can help you decide how you want your web page to look (or in some cases how you DON'T want it to look!)
  • For every web page you'll need a title (it helps if you include a keyword or two in the title) as well as the actual text, images and pictures it will contain.
  • Connections - Another thing to think about is how you want your pages connected to each other (see sample web site map below). They may all connect to each other via a button bar or menu list that is on every page, or you can have a main page plus several others that connect in whatever way is most easily navigated.


sample web site map for web page design planning
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