Budget: Before starting the redesign, you need to figure out how much money you want to spend. This will determine the final makeup of your site. If you want something complex with many pages, your budget will go up. If you want a large amount of interactivity, the budget will generaly go up. Databases and custom graphics mayl also cost more.

Who is the Audience?: Knowing who your website will target will change the way your site looks and the technologies uses to develop the website. For example, if you are a company that provides information to a broad audience such as Microsoft's MSN.com, you will have to consider that your site needs to be developed to look and function consistently in all of the major browsers and be fast enough to be downloaded by the slowest of modems in a resonable amount of time. But if you are a business to company, chances are your visitors are working with a broadband connection so you can make your site more graphically intense, you only have to worry about 3.0+ browser versions and the download time is less of a factor, although still important.

Whos is Maintaining your Website? One of the big factors to consider when redesigning is balancing complexity with maintenance. If you hire someone to design your website you need to make sure you, or someone else, can maintain it. We've designed sties for companies that let them maintain their content by using databases, web-based forms and other tools, but this is something that needs to be determined prior to starting the new website construction. Content managment is one of the buzzwords surrounding website design these days, because maintanance is so important.

It is not recommended to use in-house website design. Since today's standard websites are far beyond just brochureware and static displays, you really need a professional to make sure that it's designed and coded for optimum performance. Once you've had a chance to answer the basic questions of budget, target audience, and maintenance and you have an idea of what you would like please contact us for your website redesign.

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