Website and Graphic Design
Website and Graphic Design
This article was first published on July 13, 1998.
The World Wide Web provides an inexpensive and relatively easy means for reaching a global audience. What you decide to provide this audience is entirely up to you, but if your Web site does not have some kind of purpose then it will not be of use to anyone. Without purpose your site will become worthless.
A Web Site can provide a vast array of information about a company and its services and products, or about an individual and their hobbies, interests and opinions. The possibilities of what can be published on the World Wide Web is only limited by the imagination.
The World Wide Web consists of millions of pages and each day more are added, most of which do have some sort of purpose; to entertain, to promote a product or simply entertain. Defining the purpose of a Web site is usually quite simple, but if you start developing a Web site without a definite idea of what its purpose will be then I cannot imagine how or where you would begin.
There are a few Web sites that lack purpose. (I would show you some examples but they are not the type of pages that I bookmark.) They are often found on Web space that has been provided to home-based Internet users as part of the Internet connection deal.
Nearly everyone with access to the Internet is provided with Web Space which they can use. (If your Internet account does not include Web Space then there are several organisations that offer free Web space, Geocities and Tripod seem to be the most popular.)
So if you want to publish on the World Wide Web, devise a purpose for your Web site first, only then can you begin to expand your ideas and start developing your Web site. Here are a few examples of how you could utilise your Web space.
Here are a few examples of how you could utilise your Web space.
January 7, 2009
