A Guide for Clients: How to Prepare for Website Creation Share: Push Agency Date Published 19 August 2019 Categories Blog, Guide, Tutorial Reading Time 3-Minute Read Everything you should know before ordering your own website. In this article, I would like to provide you with a list of things that are particularly important during the creation of the site and will be mentioned by the subcontractor before collaboration. The following list was created based on our experience and will help you understand the basic issues necessary to run a website. Hosting and Domain Hosting means the place on the server where we can create your new website. Hosting is typically purchased for one year. If you don’t have experience and knowledge, don’t worry – leave it to us and we will choose the best possible solution. Then we will show you the selected company and wait for your approval. We support you throughout the whole process. The domain, or the name of your site – should be simple to enter and also pronounce. It is useful when we want to provide the address of our website by phone. It is worth finding out at this stage whether the domain name we have chosen is still available. You can do this by going to https://www.lh.pl/ and entering your chosen name in the field “enter the name of the domain you are looking for “. The website will show us if the domain is free or occupied. Structure One of the most important things you can do is to take a sheet of paper, visualize and write down what your site should do and what should be on it. You can also think about menu items that would be relevant to you. If you like any pages, collect their list. Thanks to this, we can jointly consider whether given solutions will work on your website. Of course, looking for inspiration for your site does not mean copying. Photos The next thing is to prepare the appropriate own photos or ask the agency to buy the right paid photos or use one of the limited free photo databases. Paid photos that you can preview are available on Fotolia. The free photobank I can recommend to you is Pixabay. If you decide on photos from the photo bank, the so-called “stock imagery” then you can choose the photos you are interested in and save the appropriate links to provide the agency with suggestions on which photos should look on the website. Texts The texts are important when preparing the page. If you feel adventurous and your site is a business card, I recommend you prepare your own texts and send them to the agency. You also have the option of commissioning us to prepare texts. In this case, however, one should take into account an additional fee for every 1000 special characters – a professional copywriter agency takes part in the creation of such texts. Site Management The last important factor that I should pay attention to as a new website owner is its administration. If you want to change something on the site, it’s important to know how to do it. To this end, we will prepare and conduct for you free training in the use of the administrative panel and show you how to make changes on your website. You also need to consider whether you want to update the site yourself and take care of its security and backup or leave it to specialists.