4 Building Blocks of a Successful Website

What happens when you hire Do Good Design to do your website? We work with you to create a website perfectly tailored to your needs and wants.

We do this in 4 steps, and they’re all geared to help you be successful. Here’s how:

The 4 Building Blocks to Your Successful Website

Do Good Design’s 4 Building Blocks of a Successful Website Circle

  • Planning
  • Writing
  • Coding
  • Managing

Building Block #1: Planning

The first building block is Planning, where you get to dream big and we make it happen.

Here’s what we’ll for you:

  • Work with you on your website’s goals
  • Research your competition
  • Map out what information matters most to your customers

Work out your site goals

We make sure your website gives you value for money, that it’s built to grow your business — not just sit there looking pretty.

What you need your website to do specifically: sell 150 pottery pieces per month? Earn £1500/month? Generate 2-3 potential client contacts a week?

Together, we’ll target what your website needs to achieve for your business. The Website Strategy will then keep all of us focused on what your site needs to do, without any flashy extras.

Research your competition

Checking out the competition A Competitive Analysis can kickstart some great ideas for what a client can do on their website. It tells what other businesses like yours are doing and what they aren’t doing.

Filling the gap that your competitors are missing is another part we’ll discover in this step.

Create your website navigation

Site map, or your website’s navigation Give people information that helps them, and they’ll start liking and trusting you. Waste their time with hype and fluff, and they’re outta there.

That’s why we have a process to create your site map that looks at what your customers want. Because how people get around your site and what information you have on it is critical.

By the way, we’re happy to share the details of this process with you so you can learn to do it yourself for future websites. And that’s true for everything we do.

How Planning will grow your business

Planning well is the first step to a perfect website.A focused website = value for money
A Website Strategy will keep your site focused on getting the results you need — not just looking pretty. It saves you money by avoiding spending money on any part of your website that’s not necessary.

Learn from others’ mistakes
The Competitive Analysis of your competitors’ websites will uncover what’s working and what’s a disaster that you, happily, will avoid.

Great information keeps customers coming
Your Site Map and navigation will be easy to use chock full of good information, keeping the customers coming back.

Next, it’s Building Block 2: Designing your website