Create your website in 10 steps!

Nowadays, having a website essential for a company. It enables the smooth running of its business. Indeed, having a website brings many advantages: it allows you to showcase your activity, your products and services, to enhance your services by integrating images, to create a direct link with your customers, to make online sales or to increase your brand image.

Do you want to create your own website? Follow the steps below!

Step 1: Determine your objectives

First of all, it is necessary to define your needs and your objectives through the creation of a website. What type of site (showcase website, e-commerce site, blog, forum, etc.) do you want to develop? What is your company’s budget? What will be the target audience you wish to reach? These questions are necessary in order to have a precise idea of your project.

Step 2: Find a domain name

The domain name is the address of your website that will allow users to find it. For it to be effective, don’t hesitate to include keywords relating to your activity and to make sure that it is more or less short. Once you are sure of your domain name, do not waste time and register it on hosting sites like LWS or OVH.

Step 3: Choose a hosting company

When your site is officially created, it must be accessible to all Internet users. To do this, it is mandatory to choose a host with a server where you can store all the files of your website pages. It must provide 24-hour access to your website. Take the time to compare the different offers by analysing the reliability, the life span and the quality of the tools and services offered by the host.

Step 4: Build your bill of specifications

Drawing up a bill of specification is an essential step when you want to create your website. It must clearly define the objectives of the site, detail each of its functions and specify any technical constraints that may pose a problem.

Step 5: Content writing

The content of your website is of significant importance. The more original, well-written and trustworthy your content is, the more it will appeal to the Google search engine. So, naturally, you will benefit from a good referencing: your content will be more highlighted, which will attract a maximum number of visitors to your site.

Step 6: Build the sitemap

Once you have written all your content, you can start to imagine what your site could look like. The idea is to build the skeleton of your website by determining the shape it will have, the number of pages it will have and their positions, etc.

Step 7: Develop a graphic model

Based on the indications in the bill of specifications, you can develop the design of the site and its visual appearance. You need to determine a graphic charter and choose the colours, logo and typography that will be used for the website.

Step 8: Create the website

You have now reached one of the crucial stages of your project: the creation of the website. The first step is called ‘integration’ which consists of transferring the model and creating the pages on your website software. This is called front-end development. Immediately afterwards, you can motorise your site, i.e. associate a database and a dynamisation layer with the HTML pages. This is the back-end part of the development.

Step 9: Referencing

While this is one of the last steps, it is quite important. This refers to the referencing of your website. The idea here is to choose strategic keywords to highlight; this will enable you to achieve the best possible positioning on search engines.

Step 10: Testing the site before going online

The test phase is a very important step. It allows you to make sure that your website is working properly and that it looks as you imagined it would. When and if everything works perfectly, it is time to put your site online!

Outsourcing part of the creation of your website to ProContact

As you can see, creating a website is a complex project. Outsourcing part of it could be wise, especially when it involves tasks requiring specific skills. At ProContact, we give you the possibility of entrusting the front-end development of the creation of your website. “Our 4 graphic designers take care of creating the visual identity of the site based on the client’s specifications. They will therefore look for images, icons and logos to create a mock-up using Adobe Illustrator. Our 3 integrators will then take over and integrate the site. We can create up to 4 websites a day”, says Gary, who is responsible for website creation.

Contact us!

Web agencies, e-commerce sites, digital marketing specialists, start-ups, pure players, etc., outsourcing can be a difficult decision to make, but by entrusting your image retouching needs to a reliable service provider recognised for the quality of its services, your company will gain a partner it can count on to develop and survive in a highly competitive context.

With several decades of experience, ProContact is more than a contact centre. Thanks to trained, qualified, hand-picked and multilingual agents, we enable the companies that choose us to gain flexibility and reduce their operating costs, which are important at the moment, in the middle of an economic recession. To find out more about our services, click on our contact form, send us an e-mail or call us on (+33) 1 84 76 24 03.