What do I put on my site?
Overview | 1. Who are your audiences? | 2. What do your audiences want to see? | 3. Provide what your audience requires

Overview:
Once you've decided that you want a web site, the difficult task of deciding what should go on your site begins. You'll probably find yourself looking at a lot of sites and trying to pick and choose from the features on the sites you visit. This is a prtty good starting point to getting familiar with some of the possibilities. You should keep track of the features you like on other sites. Write down a description of each feature and specifically note why you like each one. What is it about each particular feature that you find interesting, or helpful? This list will come in handy later.

The process of deciding what features and functionality should be available on your site is known as Information Architecture. This process can be completed quickly, within a matter of days or even hours, or it can take months to complete. However, there are a defined series of steps that should be completed in order to help you build a good web site. A quick explanation of the Information Architecture process is given in the article "Where? (Where to Start)". This article will focus on two steps in the process that particularly help to nail down what to put on your site. The first step is defining your audience, The second step is building a content inventory based on what your audience will expect to see.

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