Website - a journey in building one in real time

Building a website for your business is an important step in getting your business ready for the world. I'm in the process of helping to create a business website and will be discussing the process here as I go along.

The first step is to be sure of what is wanted. What will your website be saying about your business and how do you want your potential customers to see you? You want to be sure that you represent yourself in a way that will be both appealing and attractive to potential customers.

Today as I helped get the website started I realized two important things.

1) if your background image is not loading, consider the possibility that it's BIG and will take a moment to load up rather than waste a long time assuming you got the code wrong. ::pounds head on desk::

2) make the background color compliment the image so that it a) is not jarring to see load up and b) displays the text while the image is loading.

I also added META tags for description and keywords to the site.