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Before you jump into building a new site, there are many considerations. Do you have all of your material together? Have you set up your infrastructure? Are you updating an existing site, or building a brand new site? Web 8080 is full of resources to help jump start your build. Once you complete the list below, check out our helpful articles about web design. [...]

Whether your are attempting to build your own site or contracting someone to do it, you first need to compile all the materials you will use for the content of the site. In the web design world, these materials are known as assets. These assets will expedite the design process and keep the designer organized through the build. For your convenience, we have put together a list that you can use as a guide (each list stands to differ based on the type of site you are building). [...]

These days, when creating a site, you could say that sites are modular. So many tools and widgets exists out there that for the most part, you designer takes the basic design structure, tools and widgets and marries them to your content to create your site. Yes, your content plays a role in the design, because most of the design is the content. The site itself serves as a container for the content, while the tools and widgets are employed to display the content in an attractive light. Below we have outlined considerations for the design and tools you may use. [...]

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the "art" of integrating content into your site that the search engines can utilize to rank your site on search results. It requires working knowledge of how search engines scan and rank pages and how pages render content for the search engines. Some other factors are: Dynamic data, scannable databases and heuristic priority algorithms. [...]