Define
Objectives
There are many good
reasons for building your own web page but it is important that your goals
are clear. Your objectives should drive the content and the design. Many people
build home pages as a hobby, purely for their own personal development. Others
build them to promote business, social, cultural, humanitarian, or business objectives.
Knowledge of web page development can help you
in your career. Many businesses today have their own corporate Intranet sites,
which are simply internal Internet systems used to share corporate information.
The ability to communicate electronically is a valuable skill to employers.
There
is also potential for generating income from the web pages you develop. This
is done by publishing interesting pages that attract large numbers of visitors
and then selling advertising space, goods or services from those pages.
Judging
by the vast number of home pages that contain little more than the builder's
name, age, and a photograph of the family cat, it would appear that many web page
developers have not clearly defined their objectives!
A
good place to get ideas is by looking at some professional
web design companies, and the sites they have been comissioned to build.
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