Create the Web Pages as Per the Site Plan

[This is Step 8 of the Website Building Tutorial]

Depending on the site builder you are using, it is time now to create the individual pages that make up your website. The content of your site is what will draw visitors to your site. Articles are a great way to get targetted visitors to your site. Make sure your write highly targetted content. There are various tools to help you do this.

Once you create the pages you will need to insert the following into each page:

page heading
textual content
images and other media assets, if any
meta data - page titles, keywords and descriptions
any special navigational elements related to that particular page e.g. 'you are here', sub-menu etc.

If you are using Dreamweaver, once you have an HTML template for the site ready you can begin creating your site pages. Create an html page based on the HTML template for each item in the flowchart of your site plan. Give each page a file name e.g. about.htm. Avoid using spaces and special characters (except underscore _ or hyphen -) in the file names.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Ensure that each page is search engine friendly. Check out these articles on how to make you web pages search engine friendly.
Check each item on the SEO checklist.
Ensure you pages have targetted content by using various content optimization tools. If you are using Site Build It! you will automatically be doing this as you add the content with the SBI 'Analyze It' facility.

Get detailed instructions on how to build a website with the Dreamweaver CS3 Tutorial.