{"id":84,"date":"2012-03-23T20:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T03:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:54:39","slug":"website-planning-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/website-planning-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Planning Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To go along with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/website-planning\/\" title=\"Website Planning \u2013 A Step by Step Guide\">Website Planning \u2013 A Step by Step Guide<\/a> post, here is a website planning checklist as a guide.  It can be used for a website, a blog or as a redesign checklist to refocus your existing site.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageblock\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/images\/website-planning-checklist.gif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" alt=\"Website Planning Checklist\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you get stuck on any of these points, go back to the original post to review.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h2>Purpose and Goals of Website<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Establish purpose of website<\/li>\n<li>Assess market if a business, informational or opinion website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Set website goals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Short term goals<\/li>\n<li>Long term goals<\/li>\n<li>Measurement system to assess meeting goals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Target Audience<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Establish target audience<\/li>\n<li>Assess target audience computer skills<\/li>\n<li>Assess target audience visual and motor skills<\/li>\n<li>Assess target audience computer equipment and technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Search Engine Optimization<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Search engine optimization research<\/li>\n<li>Keywords and phrases target audience are using<\/li>\n<li>Where your target audience searches for your chosen niche<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Website Technologies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ecommerce technologies required<\/li>\n<li>Communication technologies required<\/li>\n<li>Advanced website technologies required<\/li>\n<li>Website graphics required<\/li>\n<li>Web hosting features required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Web Hosting<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Type of hosting package required<\/li>\n<li>Webspace features required<\/li>\n<li>Web traffic statistics required<\/li>\n<li>Web Hosting Checklist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Website Budget<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Building web pages<\/li>\n<li>Building web graphics<\/li>\n<li>Website content creation and maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Website advertising<\/li>\n<li>Third party features chosen<\/li>\n<li>Bookkeeping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Write things down! How are you going to remember to do everything on the checklist if it&#8217;s not written down? How will you remember your final decisions on the different areas if it&#8217;s not written down?<\/p>\n<p>Writing things down not only acts as a checklist and reminder, it&#8217;s a way to measure your success at carefully planning the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read our Website Planning &#8211; Step by Step Guide you will find this checklist handy for a new website, a blog or if you are planning a redesign and want to refocus the existing site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"Website planning checklist - handy for a new website, a blog or if you are planning a redesign and want to refocus the existing site.","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accretewebsolutions.ca\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}