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There are many steps in launching a website.

There are many types of website. Not all need to be launched with the same ideas. Customers often assume (in New Zealand, anyway) that you know what they mean when they specify things with expressions like "it should just work, you know," but the problem is that we do not know.

The first step is to sketch the idea out or ask the website designer to come up with an idea after talking about your business.

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A website does not need to follow a specific formula. Some sites can use complex navigation, others have little or even no navigation. The next step is to find examples of what you mean on other sites. Clearly mark examples: When a customer enters their email address, I want it to validate it in the browser immediately - like this example site does - but instead of a spinner animation, a spinning planet. Clear? It is. There is a certain language associated with any business. Your business has it own words uniquely used by you that your website designer may not even realise are specific. It is important to write a few pages of content, and not leave content creation up to a web designer. Go back to basics here - why are you creating a website? There must be something you want people to know. You may also be interested in what they know. Content management is extremely important in website creation and a content management system that does not restrict but allows programmers to plug in to the framework is of great value.