Define your site’s purpose. This can be helpful when curating content for your website. Below are some questions that can help you narrow down your website’s purpose.
- Are you wanting a static or dynamic site?
- Will you be blogging or showing static information?
- How long do you plan on maintaining this site?
- How often are you going to update content?
- What content are you planning to publish to this site?
- Does this include articles, data, photographs, videos, etc.?
- How to you plan on organizing your information / content?
- How do you want an end user to navigate through your site?
- How do you plan on using images on your site?
- Where do you plan on getting these?
- Are the images relevant or decorative or both?
- Who is the intended audience of the site?
- Peers? Professors? Potential Employers?