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Planning Your Website

 * Organize Your Ideas**

Build your Web site on paper before you start building in it Dreamweaver or any other text editor. Sketching out a Web site map, with can help you to visualize the size and scope of your project. Use sticky notes on a board so that you can move pages around as you plan.


 * Gather Your Content**

Before you start building your Web site, gather all the elements that you want to use. This proces may require writing text, taking photos, and designing graphics. It can also involve producing multimedia content, such as audio and video files. Gather all of your materials together in the beginning makes it easier for you to organize your Web site once you start building it in Dreamweaver or Kompozer.


 * Define Your Audience**

Identify your target audience can help you to decide what kind of content to offer on your Web site, It also determines the follow of the Web site. Thinking about how your audience will move through your Web site.


 * Host Your Finished Web Site**

To make your finsihed Web site accessible on the Web, you need to store, or //host,// it on a Web server. Most people have their Web sites hosted on Web server at commercial Internet service providers (ISP) or at their companies.