Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Saturated Internet - Why It Is Important to Plan Your Website

By Stephen Grisham, Sr.

Personal websites have saturated the World Wide Web. Anyone with half a thought in their head can look towards the internet to express their opinions. With the vast amounts of free web hosts, what's to hold anyone back? A "my homepage" search will result in 7 million poorly made webpages with generic GIFs for anyone's viewing pleasure. Many of these sites rarely yield any hits.

What they fail to realize is the pure stagnation of their material. It is obvious they are not writers and most are written in very informal formats. Many times it looks like a conversation amongst friends as opposed to a well thought out, written book. However, is this wrong?

Wrong. Their adorable overused template and WYSISYG HTML editor in hand, they set out to make their own site. The barrier to entry is nonexistent. Templates so often used many have a subliminal reflex to close the window on sight.

Businesses creating a page that serves the whooping purpose of absolutely nothing. They have the resources but not the point. They have no idea what they're doing there, and just want a piece of the cake. Shilling of their products to those stumbling by who would never be interested.

On the other hand, some have great ideas but lack the means to create anything worthwhile. Many times someone starts to build a webpage, but fails to gage just how difficult the task is. This leads to ridiculous sites that are both difficult to navigate and hideous to view. To correct their mistakes, most want to add on and make it more flashy where simplicity is probably the better option.

And what happens to those who happen to have a good idea for a service or legitimately interesting topic? They leap before looking in the sea of billions of pages of those with the same idea. They make their great masterpiece and are never heard from again. What went wrong? Planning. They never thought of what they would do next or simply gave up, not having the true will to ever see the task to completion. Annoying as they may be to entrepreneurs, barriers to entry are a good thing. They keep out those who are not truly ready.

A lot of people do not realize the hardwork involved in creating a good webpage. There is writing, coding, testing, drawing attention to the site, and most important, a good concept. In addition, there must be will power to see the project through to the end. Good website creation may take a year before seeing any type of measurable results and many fail prior to this.

They begin to create the site, give up and are left with random pictures of their pet, a few voiced opinions, or a service that will never be utilized. If the proper conditions and planning are not there to create a good website, people should not try in the first place. - 15478

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