Our business requires a new website- what information will your web design company need in order to build the website?

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Introduction

You may well be setting up a new business right here within Cardiff, or you may have been running your company for a very long time now.

Yet, now you have decided that your business requires a new WordPress website, but you do not want the website design process to be dragging on for months, so you may ask your web design agency what information that they will need so they can start the web design process.

So, in order to help you, we have listed below the details that you will need in order to help our website designers build your new WordPress website:

How many pages do you need?

Okay, so this may sound a really simple question to ask, that is how many pages does your website need? Yet when you think about it, in matter of fact it does need a bit of thought.

And why does it need a bit of thought?

Well, sometimes some businesses think, well they will only need say 10 pages for their website, yet then notice later on that they have completely missed out a service that they offer on their website, and now need a page added.

Or alternatively, a business may find out at a later date, that because one of their main services has only been mentioned on one section of the website, and that service hasn’t got its own page, that the SEO will be much harder to do.

And what do we mean by this?

Well, lets say for example that you run a fencing business, and you say to the website designer in Cardiff, we only want a simple website, we just want all the fencing services, they are wooden fencing, decking and artificial grass all listed on one page, the homepage, we do not want a WordPress website that has many pages.

Well, you may then hire an SEO agency, and one of the first things that they might tell you is its far better to have each service, such as decking, fencing and artificial grass all on their own page.

So, yes in some cases this means that the business may need a complete website redesign.

So this is why its always worth planning all the pages that your business needs before you hire a website designer.

And this could be something as simple as just writing the menu down on a piece of paper, then showing which services you want mentioned in the menu, and how many drop down boxes there should be, and what those services should be.

So for example, for wooden fencing, you may want “wooden fencing” to be written in the main menu, then have a drop down box for “hardwood fencing” and “feather edge fencing” for example.

What do you want your website to do?

Do you want your website to sell products, if so, do you have pictures of all the products to send to your website designer?

What CMS do you want?

Does your business want a WordPress website or a different CMS?

Who’s writing the text?

Who will be writing the text for your website?

If your business is writing the text, how will the text be laid out on the page?