Target group and purpose of the website
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Are there one or more target groups for your new web presence and how can these target groups be classified: Age/technical affinity, eco, nature, sports, culture, art, profession.
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What does the potential visitor want to do on your website: read texts and get information, look at picture galleries or products, fill out contact form or get contact details, download something?
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What graphic and textual content does the visitor expect and to what extent?
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What is the primary purpose of your website: Information, PR/external presentation, customer retention and/or customer acquisition? What is the primary orientation: regional, economic, political, social?
Design and layout
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Should the website be created in the style of an already existing corporate design, i.e. in the same style as your business cards, flyers and stationery?
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Do logos, figurative marks and type marks already exist or are they to be newly created?
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Which typography (font) is preferred, should an existing house font be used?
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Which color style is preferred (solid colors, mixed/pastel tones, warm/cool)?
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Which layout should be used and how should the page navigation be designed?
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Is your website primarily viewed on PC screens, tablets/eBook readers or smartphones? How should the layout and navigation bars adapt to small screens?
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What are the accessibility requirements?
Texts, graphics and modules
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Content and scope of the texts, should a professional copywriter be hired?
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Who supplies professional graphics? Are word or figurative marks used?
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Are contact or order forms required?
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Directions, integration of GoogleMaps or OpenStreetMap?
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Integration of audio or video streams?
Domain address, CMS and web hosting
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Are suitable domain addresses already available? With which provider are they and who is the owner?
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Do you need support in finding a suitable new domain address and registering it?
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Should the domain run with or without www-prefix and are subdomains needed?
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How should the web hosting package or web server be configured?
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How many email addresses are needed, who will do the setup?
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Static or dynamic implementation of the website: do you want to maintain and develop your website yourself?
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What are the requirements for the content management system (CMS, editorial system)? Do several people work with the CMS? What content should be entered by these people? Who should take over the administration of the CMS? Is there a person responsible for updates, backups and data security?