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Planning your page

When you create a webpage, it is important to first think about what your goal is. What is the point of your website? Secondly, what information does a visitor need in order to understand this goal? Third, you must consider and plan how to organize this information. What is an effective hierarchy of content?
Many web developers engage in a practice called wireframing. This is useful for designers to determine the layout of a page and how people will interact with the page. Ultimately, it's a tool used to create a proof of concept of your ideas, and a way to describe information contained in elements in a logical order. We must give some thought to the experience of the user/visitors of our websites. Some common questions to get you planning:

  1. What are your goals?
  2. In what order should the information be presented?
  3. What are the steps required for a visitor/user to experience your content, and what types of elements and interactions should be included?
  4. What are the separate pages of your site you would like to include and what content goes on these pages
In addition to answering these questions for yourself, asking other people helps a lot with this process! Take a few moments to write down your ideas and then discuss it with someone else in the class.

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