Apple Training Series: iLife ’09

420 Publishing a Website

Deciding the Site’s Purpose

Before you start building a website and sharing it with the entire world, it

wouldn’t hurt to develop a quick plan. Let’s begin by answering two questions:

What do you have to share?

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Whom are you trying to reach?

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Although these may seem like simple questions, they’ll help you assess what

you have and what you want to do with it. Do you have pictures you want to

share? Do you want to post highlights of your vacation with a blog? Do you

have videos you think others will want to watch? Making an inventory of your

website’s contents will help you build the website from the ground up, just like

the blueprints you’d use to build a house.

The second question relates to your audience. By identifying ...