What is involved in creating a website?

Having a website designed requires some thought from you, the customer. In no particular order, here are some of the questions that you should ask yourself:

1. What domain name do I want? -- A domain name is the part of the website between the "www." and the ".com" [www.DOMAIN.com -- www.PatrickHait.com -- www.WorldsBestPianoMaker.com -- www.AnythingYouWant.com]

2. What kind of information do I want to disseminate? -- Do you want to include tutorials to help website visitors to learn or develop a skill? Do you want to include information about yourself as a professional?

3. Consider the types of media that you wish to present on the site. -- Don't limit yourself to text! Include a few pictures of yourself or your work on your website. Include sound and videos as well. This can be done in a multitude of ways.

Try to answer the questions above. Hopefully, you will come up with some interesting ideas. This will help me, as your prospective web designer, to understand what you want to get out of your website.

Once you share your ideas with me and provide me with some of the written material and pictures that you want on your site, I will be able to secure your domain name for you. I will also be able to begin a draft, preliminary site. This beginning design process will probably take a couple of hours.

Further discussions between you and me will lead to a finished product in the coming days. Your site will then be ready for the public to view - provided that you share your domain name with them. Search Engine placement and optimization will generally occur within the next two-four weeks.