How do I want my house to look?
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Since this is the topic that's currently revolving around my WA world, I thought I'd take a minute and pass along my thoughts on this.
I've read it and heard it..."Your website does not have to be perfect, just get it out there". And I agree 100%. Here is the thing though, once your website is up the natural thing to do is start hammering out posts to try to get content and ranking. All sounds logical, right?
How would you build your house?
No one (I hope), decides to build a house then once the house is built starts thinking about what they want the house to look like. If they did that, imagine the headache, time wasted, money wasted? It would be a nightmare that could have been avoided with planning.
So what is my house analogy all about anyway?
Simple. Just consider that if you are planning on putting out tons of content on a new website, sooner or later, you are going to realize that your going to want things to look a certain way. To flow a certain way. To convey a "feeling or mood".
It's WAY easier to get your foundation of a website out, put up three or four posts then put the brakes on and fine tune the style of your site to get as professional looking as possible rather than pump out 60 posts then trying to figure that all out.
Why so important?
As part of our training here at WA, we review other members websites. I gotta say, I can tell the ones that planned ahead and the ones that didn't. When I click from one page to another and it looks like I just went to a different site....not good.
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I can't imaging my fraustration making changes to 20 or 30 posts every time I want to try something new then change them again three days later when I decide that I didn't like the change or that I found a "bug" in my design.
For me personaly this has been a GREAT strategy. I have lost count of how many changes I have done to my site trying to get it looking great (to me). And I hate to say it, but I'm still tweeking...two weeks now. But it is progessing nicely I think.
What has your experience been with putting together your first website?
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This is a great post Edwin.
If we can plan building our website in similar way we want to build a house, we can cut out some of the frustration. It's challenging to newbies though that there are many things new to them. You can't plan something which you do not know.
Thank you for sharing your idea.
Joe
newmarketpro that's exactly right. It is hard to plan when your new. That's why I recommend stopping after a FEW posts THEN start experimenting with your site. I don"nt mean planning it in the entiredy at the beggining.
I really didn't know what I wanted either but I didn't want to get 20 posts in to start thinking about it. Oh, as of last night, I have had 38 revisions. Mostly because the more I experiment, the more I learn new tricks that I want to test out.
Thanks for commenting.
~Ed~