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Step 3: Consider Content 

We know you ll want to get your site online quickly. 

To speed the process while staying organized, think 

about your site content and make a list of the 

information you d like to include. Are you creating an 

online brochure to advertise your business? Chances 

are you ll want to include a welcome page, a 

description of your company and services, your 

contact information, and perhaps an email form so 

your customers can give you feedback or ask 

questions. Building a site to celebrate your upcoming 

wedding? You may want to include details about the 

wedding, short biographies of the bride and groom, a 

few photos, and RSVP information.  

Take some time now to jot down your ideas, then start gathering your content. If you ve 

already created brochures or flyers for your organization, you can save time by using the 

content you ve already created. Starting from scratch? Write a description of your 

organization, create a schedule of upcoming events, develop survey questions, outline 

directions to your business. If you re building a photo album, start collecting your images 

and writing captions for them. Do you want to include links to other web sites? Make a list 

of those sites and their web addresses. If you have a logo, make sure you have an image of 

it ready to add to your pages. Are you planning to build an online store? An initial inventory 

of your catalog items, along with their names, descriptions, item numbers, and images, for 

example, will help you organize your site.  

The more you know about your content before you start, the easier you ll find designing and 

building your first site. But relax! Remember that with Yahoo! Web Hosting, almost nothing 

is set in stone: You ll be able to update your web site anytime, whether that means 

changing a few words or adding dozens of new pages. You don t even have to stick with the 

same site building tool! (Your domain name and Yahoo! ID are just about the only 

immutable aspects of your plan.) 

Step 4: Draw an Outline 

Now that you ve developed a general idea of the content you want to present, try drawing a 

basic outline of your site. List the pages you ll need   a home page, "About Us" page, 

contact page, and several photo pages, for example   and sketch a basic tree structure to 

show how they will relate to each other. You might include links on your home page to your 

"About Us" page, contact page, and a photo page; your photo page might in turn link to a 

dozen other photo pages. If you re displaying a portfolio, you might link your home page to 

a few descriptive pages that index your work; these in turn could link to your writing 

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