A website can be as simple as throwing up a quick page from a development tool’s template, or as complex as hiring a full-time team to do the work.
But there’s a point in between that allows you to do most of the work yourself while “outsourcing” the parts you don’t want to deal with.
What’s all this about website development?
A good website depends upon more than just an attractive design… information needs to be structured for simple access, navigation must make it easy for users to find the information they’re looking for, pages need to be optimized for Google and Yahoo! and other search engines.
What is your audience, and how will they want to look for information on your site? How much information is “too much”? There are a lot of questions to ask before a design is considered. Like most things, the more preparation that goes in beforehand, the less patching required later — not to mention the wailing, the gnashing of teeth, the tearing of hair….