There are over 100 tasks in creating something as basic as a simple website. Tons of questions can come to mind: What content should you have ready? Who is going to design / build it? Will it scale in the future? What features do I need? Where should I look when hiring a web professional? What niche should I target? What hosting should I use?
If you start bombarding yourself with questions, you’ll probably get stressed out and decide to look into gardening instead, but don’t retire to gardening just yet.. Most of these questions can be answered and dealt with in groups, which makes it easier to get through the process, and you can find help at each step of the way:
All websites need a basic plan: you can start the process of actually creating one after you answer a few basic questions:
- Why are you doing this?
- What “angle”, “hooks” or content will make you unique? (If a website is not unique, it will not be seen)
- How much time and money are you willing to invest in this before it starts to earn a positive return on your investment (what is the budget)?
- How passionate are you about the topic? (IE: Are you going to waste your time; love interests?)
- I would spend a good amount of time thinking through these questions before moving on. I want to add some implications of different strategies depending on what your answer to each basic question is: to make things simpler and easier to follow in this guide, I’m going to break down each question into multiple choice answers and address how each answer will affect the project as a whole: lets break it down:



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