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What materials do you gather? |
What else should you have prepared?
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Images of you and/or your products
- Many people balk at having their picture on the site, but I once got a customer in online bidding, because I was the only bidder who put my face on my website!
In other words, I was a real person making the bid for her work. People like to 'see' the person they are doing business with.
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The text for the content pages
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Write simply, with your own 'voice', or with the tone of your business image.
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Formatting — headings, etcetera — should be left to the styling laid out by the template. I 'train' you in how this works, but it is very simple to achieve.
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A list of the products/services that you are selling/promoting
- This is usually how I work out the main sections of a website.
A list of your likes and dislikes
- Collect some sample website addresses to gauge what you have in mind for your own web site design.
- This is clear style indicator and saves me from working on something you will hate!
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Your logo if you have one
- I can design that for you too if you need one, and have done so for many of my clients.
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The time frame you have in mind
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This is so important!
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Busy people can sometimes forget that they need to approve/edit the site design and content. Try to be realistic about how much time you need to get everything together.
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