OK – so ask yourself this question: “What is it that your website does for you?” Not “What do you want it to do?”, but what does it do!

Notice the distinction. Bloggers who blog for other bloggers ask this question all of the time, although in sometimes slightly a different manner.They ask questions like “What is your Blog’s Mission Statement“or “If your blog disappeared, who would miss it?”

You need to be asking yourself the same question about your website!

Often people will go through the process of hiring a web designer, building a site, and smiling with glee as the site “goes live”. Yet they never knew, or communicated, with the designer what the site was supposed to do, or how it was supposed to do it.

Just as your business needs a Mission Statement to know its direction, and be able to run effectively, so does your website. Also know, that just as businesses can change direction to go with the changes presented to them, so can your website. Consider the following types of business websites, with an example Mission Statement:

The question is of course is: Is your website doing what you want? If not you need to find someone who can work with you to develop your web strategy, be it for an informational website that should get people to call you, or to move into e-commerce, or any of the other types of websites.

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Growing up in Orlando, FL I always got to visit places like Disney World, and Universal Studios Florida. When I was younger, I there were even more, albeit smaller, theme parks around.

One of the joys of these parks are the skill games you can play. These were often against a group of people, or in rarer cases individual games. At the end of the game, you received either points or a prize (those stuffed animals you see people carrying around).

Unfortunately, some of the companies who made these games have gone out of business. When that happened, a lot of good people lost their jobs. Some of them have started their own businesses working on those games they made doing everything from standard maintenance to completely refurbishing them with new paint, cabinets, etc.

I’ve created a simple website, Denny’s Upgrades, for some of these people to get leads on who needs their services.

After working on several larger sites, which take 6 to 12 weeks once final design was done, it was a nice change of pace to work on a site that could be completed in just a couple of hours. Granted, this site doesn’t have a lot of the bells and whistles some of the other sites have, but it still has a basic e-mail form, and uses my newly released Form Validator tool for the validation.

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