Section: 0.2: Website pages
Lets create a list!
One of the first steps in planning your website is to create a list of all the pages that you might need. A small website might only include a few pages: i.e. home, products, contact-us and about-us. However, if you are thinking about creating a larger website you will obviously need to plan for many more pages.
Identifying your pages
To help identify your pages try spending some time thinking about your websites goals, its purpose and its target audience. It might also be a good idea to research other sites similar to yours to see how they've organised their information.
Don't worry too much about the length of your list, just write down all the pages you think you might need; we will be looking at organising and structuring the pages later on in the next section. E-commerce stores or very large database websites often require a very different approach; in this article we will focus on small to medium sized websites.
To give you an example of a typical set of site pages we have listed the pages of a fictional software company. Click the link below to display the company pages.
As you can see, we have managed to identify a total of 26 pages for our fictional software company, it's now time to start thinking about arranging these pages into website sections.
If you are still struggling with identifying your pages take a look at this article, it might help get the ball rolling.
Next: Website Structure.