subject: What Is Next After The Website Design [print this page] A website design isn't all it takes to have a functional website for your company, just as a page layout doesn't equate to a magazine. There is still a lot of work to do once the website is designed and that involves getting it online and marketing it. Here we'll go through what you do after the website design When a website design is ready and fully functional it will require some web space - this is where the website will be stored on the Internet. All websites require their own web space or hosting, and there are many online web hosts who will charge you a monthly fee for a web hosting package.
Usually this is not too expensive, and the type of package that you require will depend ultimately on the type of website that you will have made. If you have a massive website design that has many large files you will need a lot of bandwidth on your web hosting package and so you will have to pay more money. Then a hosting package for a smaller site. If you expect to get hundreds of thousands of visits to your site every month then you may require a hosting package that can deal with this amount of traffic. Usually the website designers will choose a hosting package to suit you and will charge you whatever the hosting costs them, so this isn't really something that should concern you.
Another important step that will need to be taken once the website is designed and has been coded and you have a web hosting package ready to use is the domain name - this is the website address. This is a highly important aspect of getting your website on the Internet, and the domain name should ultimately be related to the subject of your business or the content of your site. For example if you are selling shampoo, it is suggested that you use your product line as your website domain name because it contains your company name. This will be good for your brand name and will give you a good presence online.
If someone knows your business offline and wants to see if you have a website they might instinctively think to type in your business name to see if the site exists. Alternatively, they might search for the brand name in Google and hopefully your web design will show up. If you do not have a business name then you will want to choose a website address that contains words related to the content of your site, for search engine optimization reasons.
If you have a website that contains information about second hand cars then you might want the domain name to be second-hand-cars.com because this way your website might show up in searches in sites like Google for second hand cars. This will bring you in highly targeted traffic who are going to be interested in viewing second hand cars which is exactly what you want.
