How to Design Your Own Website

All the things you need to do it yourself.

Jessica Yanez
DIY Your Website

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GIF of a website built by Jessica Trumpour: Rising Wild Woman

So you want to build a website, but don’t know where to begin.

Building a website can be overwhelming, tricky, and a little confusing. Buying a domain, picking a web host, writing content, designing user flow, and sticking to a cohesive design can take quite a bit of time and strategy but it can be done.

I’m going to go over some of the key things I look for and do when I am building a website — whether my own or one of my clients.

Before you begin building your website.

Before I even open up the web editor I sit down and conceptualize.

I think about what pages I’m going to need, what call’s to action am I looking to add, how will the pages intertwine and work together, will I need to schedule clients or take payment, what does the branding look like, who will be visiting this site — are they, doctors? Parents? People seeking spiritual guidance or life coaching? What kind of business do you run — is this a law website? Are you a social influencer? Do you cater to men? Women?

Each of these demographics is different, each of these visitors is coming to the site with unique goals and preconceived notions…

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Jessica Yanez
DIY Your Website

Just an Adam Sandler mom trying to be a put together mom. Writer | Philosophical Thinker | Autodidact