Creating Your Website, Step-by-Step

Introduction

Define Your Audience

Develop an Inventory

Group Your Information

Arrange the Categories

Decide on a Name

Incorporate "Must Haves"

Incorporate Graphics

Do a Draft

Lay Out Topic-Level Pages

Create Your Content

Summary

• You have to think through your website before you ever come close to a computer

• Start small and build

• Use our "Checklist for Public Service Websites" to review your site - see where you need to improve

• You can create a website that works - just think like a citizen, use common sense, don't get discouraged, and remember - it's a process!