Define the Objective of your Site: Is it to generate more income? Develop name recognition? Sell products to consumers? Reach your network of wholesale vendors? Defining your goals will help shape the focus, design, and navigation of your site.

Define Your Audience: Similar to defining your goals, it's also important to define who your audience is. Will you be selling products to the public? Providing business-to-business services? Offering expertise or information to other professionals in the field?

Make a Budget for the Site: Once you have an objective, you can figure out how much a website will contribute to your business goals and you can budget accordingly.

Decide on and Register a Domain Name: You'll need to find a Domain Name that is available. GITS can take care of registering your domain for you at no additional charge. If you already have one, we'll take care of the transfer for you.

Consider Site Features: Make a list of features you want on the site. This could include special forms, a shopping cart, animated graphics, etc. See our E-Commerce Pages for shopping cart features.

Sketch a Basic Design: Write a short paragraph or sketch a simple drawing of what you want on your home page and how you want it to look. You might get some ideas by looking at some websites, just surf around the net and visit some good website and note down their addresses with features you like for future references.

Assemble Site Content: You provide us with text, graphics, your product database, or other materials you want on your website and we put it together. Or, we can design graphics, compose the content, and create other material for you. Here's list of things to assemble.

• Product Data
• Product Photos
• Artwork
• Website Content
• Business Biography
• Staff Photos

Compose a Site Description: Think of search keywords and a site description that we can use to submit your site to the search engines.

Apply for a Merchant Account: If you want to accept credit cards online, we can assist you in applying for a merchant account that accepts online transactions.

Consider your Marketing Strategy: Will you be using print advertising to advertise your site? Sending targeted emails or newsletters?